GOLF has released its latest ranking of the Top 100 Courses in the World, and nearly half of them are in the United States. (Great Britain and Ireland, with 29 courses, has the next-highest total.)
The last time we published this list two years ago, 49 courses were in the U.S.; this time around the number dropped to 48. Whistling Straits, Muirfield Village and Yeamans Hall all dropped off the list, while Childress Hall and CapRock Ranch climbed on it.
Of the U.S. courses, 11 of them are in New York, including two of the top six in Shinnecock Hills (5th) and National Golf Links of America (6th). And, of course, the long-standing top-ranked course on GOLF’s Top 100 in the World ranking, Pine Valley, is in New Jersey. Cypress Point, ranked second, is in Pebble Beach, Calif.
Scroll below to see the complete list of the 48 U.S. courses that made the list.
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New York (11)
No. 5 Shinnecock Hills
Southampton, N.Y.
Toomey & Flynn, 1931
No. 6 National Golf Links of America
Southampton, N.Y.
C.B. Macdonald, 1911
No. 16 Fishers Island
Fishers Island, N.Y.
Seth Raynor, 1926
No. 23 Friar’s Head
Baiting Hollow, N.Y.
Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw, 2003
No. 33 Winged Foot (West)
Mamaroneck, N.Y.
A.W. Tillinghast, 1923
No. 49 Maidstone
East Hampton, N.Y.
John Park/Willie Park Jr., 1922
No. 52 Garden City
Garden City, N.Y.
Devereux Emmet, 1899/Walter Travis, 1906
No. 56 Bethpage (Black)
Farmingdale, N.Y.
A.W. Tillinghast, 1935
No. 60 Oak Hill (East)
Pittsford, N.Y.
Donald Ross, 1921/Andrew Green, 2020
No. 77 Sleepy Hollow
Scarborough, N.Y.
C.B. Macdonald/Seth Raynor, 1913/A.W. Tillinghast, 1929/Gil Hanse, 2017
No. 91 Winged Foot (East)
Mamaroneck, N.Y.
A.W. Tillinghast, 1923
California (6)
No. 2 Cypress Point
Pebble Beach, Calif.
Alister Mackenzie, 1928
No. 15 Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach, Calif.
Jack Neville/Douglas Grant, 1919
No. 21 Los Angeles (North)
Los Angeles
George C. Thomas Jr., 1927
No. 26 Riviera
Pacific Palisades, Calif.
George C. Thomas Jr./Billy Bell Sr., 1927
No. 40 San Francisco
San Francisco, Calif.
A.W. Tillinghast, 1918
No. 45 California Club Of San Francisco
So. San Francisco, Calif.
A.V. Macan, 1926/Alister Mackenzie, 1928/Kyle Phillips, 2007
New Jersey (3)
No. 1 Pine Valley
Pine Valley, N.J.
George Crump/H.S. Colt, 1918
No. 51 Somerset Hills
Bernardsville, N.J.
A.W. Tillinghast, 1918
No. 70 Baltusrol (Lower)
Springfield, N.J.
A.W. Tillinghast, 1922
Georgia (3)
No. 8 Augusta National
Augusta, Ga.
Alister Mackenzie/Bobby Jones, 1933
No. 75 Peachtree
Atlanta
Robert Trent Jones Sr./Bobby Jones, 1947
No. 99 Ohoopee Match Club
Cobbtown, Ga.
Gil Hanse/Jim Wagner, 2018
Oregon (3)
No. 35 Pacific Dunes
Bandon, Ore.
Tom Doak, 2001
No. 76 Bandon Trails
Bandon, Ore.
Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw, 2005
No. 85 Bandon Dunes
Bandon, Ore.
David McLay Kidd, 1999
Ohio (2)
No. 59 Camargo
Cincinnati
Seth Raynor, 1926
No. 67 Inverness
Toledo, Ohio
Donald Ross, 1919/Andrew Green, 2017
Massachusetts (2)
No. 37 The Country Club (Clyde/Squirrel)
Brookline, Mass.
TCC Members/Willie Campbell, 1899
No. 86 Myopia Hunt Club
So. Hamilton, Mass.
H.C. Leeds, 1898
North Carolina (2)
No. 20 Pinehurst (No. 2)
Village of Pinehurst, N.C.
Donald Ross, 1907
No. 80 Old Town
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Perry Maxwell, 1939
Michigan (2)
No. 31 Crystal Downs
Frankfort, Mich.
Alister Mackenzie/Perry Maxwell, 1932
No. 36 Oakland Hills (South)
Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Donald Ross, 1917
Pennsylvania (2)
No. 9 Oakmont
Oakmont, Penn.
Henry Fownes, 1903
No. 13 Merion (East)
Ardmore, Penn.
Hugh Wilson, 1912
Illinois (2)
No. 17 Chicago
Wheaton, Ill.
C.B. Macdonald, 1895/Seth Raynor, 1923
No. 47 Shoreacres
Lake Bluff, Ill.
Seth Raynor, 1921
Nebraska (2)
No. 10 Sand Hills
Mullen, Neb.
Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw, 1994
No. 84 CapRock Ranch
Valentine, Neb.
Gil Hanse/Jim Wagner, 2022
Wisconsin (1)
No. 48 The Lido
Rome, Wisc.
Tom Doak/Brian Schneider (C.B. Macdonald reincarnation), 2023
South Carolina (1)
No. 71 Kiawah Island (Ocean)
Kiawah Island, S.C.
Pete Dye, 1991
Colorado (1)
No. 63 Ballyneal
Holyoke, Colo.
Tom Doak, 2006
Florida (1)
No. 32 Seminole
Juno Beach, Fla.
Donald Ross, 1929
Kansas (1)
No. 27 Prairie Dunes
Hutchinson, Kan.
Perry Maxwell, 1937/Press Maxwell, 1957
Montana (1)
No. 88 Rock Creek Cattle Company
Deer Lodge, Mont.
Tom Doak, 2008
Oklahoma (1)
No. 43 Southern Hills
Tulsa, Okla.
Perry Maxwell, 1936
Texas (1)
No. 73 Childress Hall (Upper)
Childress, Texas
Tom Doak, 2025
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