The best golf courses in Missouri for 2024-25

As part of GOLF’s rigorous rating process for our recently released Top 100 Courses in the US and Top 100 Courses to Play rankings, our panel of 100-plus experts identified the best golf courses in every state.

You can check out the links below to browse all levels of our courses, or scroll down to see the best courses in Missouri. And if you’re looking to create your own tour next time, you’d be wise to let the new GOLF Course Finder tool help you. Here, you can browse all of our lists — Top 100 public, best munis, best short courses, best par-3s and more — or filter by price to create the perfect itinerary for your next trip.

Other rankings of GOLF courses: Top 100 Courses in the World | Top 100 Courses in the US | Top 100 Courses to Play | Top 100 Value Courses in the US | America’s Best Municipal Studies | 100 Best Short Courses in the World

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Best Golf Courses in Missouri (2024/2025)

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# = Top 100 Courses in the US
Y = Top 100 to Play in the US
V = Top 100 Value Courses in the US
P = Public/Resort

Ed. Note: Some courses were not included in our list because they did not receive enough votes.

1. St. Louis CC (St. Louis)

2. Bellerive CC (St. Louis)

3. Ozarks National at Big Cedar Lodge (Hollister) [P, Y]

4. Old Warson CC (St. Louis)

5. Payne’s Valley at Big Cedar Lodge (Hollister) [P, Y]

How we measure our courses

In our newly released US Top 100 and Top 100 To Play programs – a process that helped us create the top 50 rankings – each panel list was given a vote that included 609 subjects. Next to the list of subjects were 11 “buckets” or clusters. If our panelists consider a course to be among the top three in the US, they check that first column. If they believe the course is between No. Team members were also free to write in subjects they felt should have been included in the vote.

Points are awarded for each bucket; to arrive at the average score for each subject, we divide the cumulative score by the number of votes. From those points, lessons are then calculated accordingly. It is a deliberately simple and straightforward process. Why? Because historically it has produced highly commendable results. Like the game itself, there’s no need to make things unnecessarily complicated or try to fix something that already works perfectly.

Key to the process is the experience and expertise of our panel. Coming from 15 nations and all the golf meccas of the world, each of our 127 hand-picked players has a keen eye for architecture, regionally and globally. Many of our panelists have played over 1,000 courses in 20-plus countries, some over 2,000. Their handicaps range from +5 to +15.

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.

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