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The Top 100 Resort Courses

Every course on this list takes a tee time — no member required. From Bandon's bluffs to Pinehurst's sandhills, Golfweek's ranking of America's best resort golf, paired with the amateur tournaments you can actually enter at each one.

  1. #2Bandon Dunes Golf Resort

    Pacific Dunes

    Bandon, Oregon · Tom Doak, 2001

    Doak's masterwork routed through natural blowout dunes on the Pacific — the modern links standard-setter.

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  2. #3Pinehurst Resort

    Pinehurst No. 2

    Pinehurst, North Carolina · Donald Ross, 1907

    Ross's crowned greens in the Carolina Sandhills — the anchor site of the U.S. Open and American resort golf's cathedral.

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  3. #5Bandon Dunes Golf Resort

    Bandon Trails

    Bandon, Oregon · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2005

    The inland journey at Bandon — dunes to meadow to coastal forest and back, with some of the property's best green sites.

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  4. #6Bandon Dunes Golf Resort

    Old Macdonald

    Bandon, Oregon · Tom Doak & Jim Urbina, 2010

    A giant-scale tribute to C.B. Macdonald's template holes, played across the broadest, wildest greens at Bandon.

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  5. #10Pebble Beach Resorts

    Spyglass Hill

    Pebble Beach, California · Robert Trent Jones Sr., 1966

    Five opening holes in the dunes, thirteen more through the Del Monte pines — the sternest test on the Monterey Peninsula.

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  6. #11Sand Valley

    The Lido

    Nekoosa, Wisconsin · C.B. Macdonald (recreated by Tom Doak), 2023

    A shot-for-shot resurrection of Macdonald's lost Long Island masterpiece, rebuilt from digital archaeology in the Wisconsin sand barrens.

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  7. T13Bandon Dunes Golf Resort

    Sheep Ranch

    Bandon, Oregon · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2020

    Bunkerless golf on a bluff-top headland — nine greens sit on the Pacific edge, every hole exposed to the wind.

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  8. #15Pinehurst Resort

    Pinehurst No. 10

    Aberdeen, North Carolina · Tom Doak & Angela Moser, 2024

    Pinehurst's newest — Doak routing through dramatic sand ridges and a former mining site five miles from the main clubhouse.

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  9. #16Sand Valley

    Sand Valley

    Nekoosa, Wisconsin · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2017

    The course that revealed central Wisconsin's sand barrens as heathland-golf country — broad fairways and native-sand chaos.

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  10. #18Sand Valley

    Mammoth Dunes

    Nekoosa, Wisconsin · David McLay Kidd, 2018

    Kidd at his most playable — enormous fairways, a drivable par-4 signature, and fun as the organizing principle.

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  11. T20Erin Hills

    Erin Hills

    Erin, Wisconsin · Michael Hurdzan, Dana Fry & Ron Whitten, 2006

    A walking-only U.S. Open venue (2017) draped over glacial kettle moraine — fescue-framed and enormous in scale.

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  12. #24Sea Island

    Seaside

    St. Simons Island, Georgia · Harry Colt & Charles Alison, 1929

    Marshland golf on Georgia's Golden Isles — a Colt & Alison original polished by Fazio, and the home of the PGA Tour's RSM Classic.

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  13. #26Sand Valley

    Sedge Valley

    Nekoosa, Wisconsin · Tom Doak, 2024

    A par-68 heathland homage that proves short can be serious — England's Swinley Forest spirit in Wisconsin sand.

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  14. #32Pinehurst Resort

    Pinehurst No. 4

    Pinehurst, North Carolina · Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner, 2018

    Hanse's rugged sandhills rebuild next door to No. 2 — exposed sand, dramatic scale, and a personality all its own.

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  15. #34Fallen Oak

    Fallen Oak

    Saucier, Mississippi · Tom Fazio, 2006

    Fazio's Gulf Coast counterpart to Shadow Creek — manicured seclusion in the DeSoto National Forest, exclusive to Beau Rivage guests.

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  16. T41Big Cedar Lodge

    Ozarks National

    Hollister, Missouri · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2018

    Coore-Crenshaw across Ozarks ridgetops — holes leap ravine to ravine with long views over the hollows.

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  17. T41Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club

    Mid Pines

    Southern Pines, North Carolina · Donald Ross, 1921

    An untouched Ross routing restored by Kyle Franz — the Sandhills' coziest stay-and-play and a walker's delight.

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  18. #44Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club

    Pine Needles

    Southern Pines, North Carolina · Donald Ross, 1927

    A four-time U.S. Women's Open site — Ross greens restored to their crowned glory in the heart of the Sandhills.

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  19. #56Omni La Costa Resort & Spa

    North Course

    Carlsbad, California · Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner, 2024

    Hanse's ground-up rebuild for the NCAA Championships — firm, strategic golf at the storied San Diego resort.

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  20. #57Golden Horseshoe Golf Club

    Gold Course

    Williamsburg, Virginia · Robert Trent Jones Sr., 1963

    RTJ's compact colonial-Williamsburg classic — no parallel fairways, four knockout par 3s over water.

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  21. T58Sand Hollow Resort

    Championship

    Hurricane, Utah · John Fought, 2008

    Red-rock rim golf in southern Utah — the back-nine canyon-edge stretch is the state's most dramatic run of holes.

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  22. #61Caledonia Golf & Fish Club

    Caledonia Golf & Fish Club

    Pawleys Island, South Carolina · Mike Strantz, 1994

    Strantz's Lowcountry jewel through century-old live oaks on an antebellum rice plantation — Myrtle Beach's finest.

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  23. T62Rams Hill

    Rams Hill

    Borrego Springs, California · Tom Fazio, 2008

    A lush Fazio oasis ringed by the Anza-Borrego desert badlands — conditioning that defies its surroundings.

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  24. T62The Dunes Golf & Beach Club

    The Dunes Golf & Beach Club

    Myrtle Beach, South Carolina · Robert Trent Jones Sr., 1949

    RTJ's Grand Strand original — the famous "Waterloo" 13th bends around Lake Singleton on a course that built Myrtle Beach golf.

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  25. T73Reynolds Lake Oconee

    Great Waters

    Greensboro, Georgia · Jack Nicklaus, 1992

    Nicklaus's lakeside showpiece at Reynolds — the entire back nine plays along the water of Lake Oconee.

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  26. T78We-Ko-Pa Golf Club

    Saguaro

    Fort McDowell, Arizona · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2006

    Walkable Coore-Crenshaw desert golf on Yavapai Nation land — no houses, just saguaros and the Four Peaks skyline.

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  27. #86Pinehurst Resort

    Pinehurst No. 8

    Pinehurst, North Carolina · Tom Fazio, 1996

    Fazio's centennial course for Pinehurst — sandhills and wetlands on the quiet side of the resort.

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  28. T88Mauna Lani Resort

    Mauna Lani (North)

    Waimea, Hawaii · Robin Nelson, 1981

    The lava-field sibling on the Kohala Coast — kiawe-framed holes cut through jagged a'a flows.

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