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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. #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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  3. #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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  4. #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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  5. #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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  6. #12TPC Sawgrass

    TPC Sawgrass (Players Stadium)

    Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida · Pete Dye, 1980

    The original stadium course and home of The Players — capped by the most famous island green in golf.

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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. #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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  9. #17Streamsong Resort

    Streamsong Red

    Bowling Green, Florida · Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw, 2012

    Coore-Crenshaw strategy woven through the dunes of a reclaimed phosphate mine — Florida golf that plays nothing like Florida.

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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. #19Streamsong Resort

    Streamsong Blue

    Bowling Green, Florida · Tom Doak, 2012

    Doak's bolder half of Streamsong's original pair — bigger dunes, wilder greens, and the famous punchbowl seventh.

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  12. T20Gamble Sands

    Gamble Sands

    Brewster, Washington · David McLay Kidd, 2014

    Wide-open high-desert golf above the Columbia River — the friendliest great course in America.

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  13. #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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  14. #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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  15. T27Streamsong Resort

    Streamsong Black

    Bowling Green, Florida · Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner, 2017

    The biggest and brawniest of Streamsong's three — Hanse's enormous greens and open vistas across the old mine land.

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  16. 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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  17. #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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  18. T49Omni PGA Frisco Resort

    Fields Ranch East

    Frisco, Texas · Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner, 2023

    The PGA of America's new home track — big Texas scale built to host championships, minutes from the PGA headquarters.

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  19. #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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  20. #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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  21. T67Cascata

    Cascata

    Boulder City, Nevada · Rees Jones, 2000

    Rees Jones golf carved into a desert mountainside outside Vegas, with a waterfall crashing through the clubhouse.

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  22. T67Bay Hill Club & Lodge

    Bay Hill

    Orlando, Florida · Dick Wilson (redesigned by Arnold Palmer), 1961

    Arnold Palmer's winter home and the PGA Tour's Orlando anchor — stay at the lodge, play the King's course.

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  23. 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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  24. T73Gamble Sands

    Scarecrow

    Brewster, Washington · David McLay Kidd & Nick Schaan, 2025

    Gamble Sands' second act — bigger cliff-edge drama above the Columbia, built on the same play-it-forward philosophy.

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  25. 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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  26. T78PGA National Resort

    The Champion

    Palm Beach Gardens, Florida · Tom & George Fazio (redesigned by Jack Nicklaus), 1981

    Home of the PGA Tour's Cognizant Classic and the infamous "Bear Trap" — three holes that wreck scorecards annually.

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  27. T81The Broadmoor

    East Course

    Colorado Springs, Colorado · Donald Ross (expanded by Robert Trent Jones Sr.), 1918

    Ross greens at 6,200 feet beneath Cheyenne Mountain — where Palmer won his U.S. Amateur and the Broadmoor's major history began.

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  28. #87Red Sky Golf Club

    Fazio Course

    Wolcott, Colorado · Tom Fazio, 2002

    High-alpine Fazio near Vail — sage hillsides, aspen groves, and views across the Sawatch Range.

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  29. T94Tamarack Resort

    Osprey Meadows

    Tamarack, Idaho · Robert Trent Jones Jr., 2005

    Mountain-meadow golf beneath Idaho's West Central range, revived alongside the four-season resort around it.

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  30. #100True Blue Golf Club

    True Blue

    Pawleys Island, South Carolina · Mike Strantz, 1998

    Caledonia's wilder sibling — Strantz at full volume across sandy wastes of an old indigo plantation.

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