Tara Iti

Tara Iti jumped onto our World list in 2017 as one of our highest debuting courses ever. The four-year-old design is already acknowledged as the Southern Hemisphere’s premier links. Its enviable location in the dunes along the Pacific Ocean, along with superior fine-fescue fairways and swirls of natural grass and sand, have some reviewers wishing it could host an Open tomorrow — if only it were 11,000 miles farther northwest. (Up 2)