Why are you at the level of golf courses? Well, because we love a good 19th-hole debate. We love making bucket lists. We love tracking trends in sports. We love to know which architects are hot (or not). And nothing encourages healthy conversation about golf courses more than a good list.
For these reasons and more, we at GOLF think the top 100 lists are important, so the responsibility is great to do the best job we can with them. For that, we rely on our panel of design aficionados – 127 of them scattered around the world. Their handicaps range from +5 to +15.
There is a 52 year gap between our youngest and oldest panel. Some have learned it in over 2,000 courses, others in just a few hundred.
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Because environmental measurement is highly subjective, no single theory carries the day. The only way, therefore, to build meaningful consensus is to incorporate this diversity of panelists and experiences into a single measure.
Or, in this latest iteration of GOLF’s riff on the best of the best, two: The Top 100 Courses in the US, which you’ll find below, and, as a bonus, the Top 100 to Play in the US, which we’ll publish a week from today on GOLF .com.
The course descriptions below are written by Hayes Jackson, Morrissett ran again Josh Sens.
Homepage image: Cypress Point (Jon Cavalier). Lead photo above, from left: The Lido (Brandon Carter); Bandon methods (Evan Schiller); Philadelphia Cricket Club – Wissahickon (Evan Schiller)
Other levels of GOLF courses: Top 100 in the World | Top 100 To Play | Top 100 Value Courses in the US | America’s Best Municipal Studies | America’s Best Courses for $100 or Less | Top 100 in UK and Ireland | Top 100 in Asia-Pacific | Top 100 Short Courses in the World
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