Golf Courses - USA

‘I believe in reverencing anything in the life of man which has the testimony of the ages as being unexcelled, whether it be literature, paintings, poetry, tombs – even a golf hole.’ Charles Blair ...

The oldest incorporated golf club in America, Shinnecock Hills was founded in 1891 by wealthy New York businessmen who were introduced to the game during a visit to France the previous year. Willia...

Recognized almost universally as the best golf course on the planet, Pine Valley is built among the sandy pinelands of southern New Jersey, around 20 miles south-east of Philadelphia. The course wa...

'For years I have been contending that in our generation no other golf course could possibly compete with the strategic problems, the thrills, the excitement, variety and lasting and increasing int...

Arguably the most important American golf course since Augusta National, Sand Hills is set among the endless rolling dunes of north-central Nebraska. Its 1995 opening not only placed this remote an...

One of the most demanding layouts in world golf, the Oakmont Country Club was founded in 1903 by Pittsburgh industrialist Henry C. Fownes. An accomplished amateur golfer, Fownes designed the course...

‘Augusta National provides shots which the greatest of all golfers has the utmost difficulty in carrying out successfully, and yet it has only twenty-two bunkers, no rough, and is a paradise for th...

Founded and developed by Ken Bakst, the 1997 USGA Mid-Amateur Champion, Friar’s Head is situated among the pristine sand dunes of Baiting Hollow, on the North Shore of New York’s Long Is...

The origins of Philadelphia’s treasured Merion Golf Club date back to the 1865 formation of the Merion Cricket Club, one of America’s earliest sporting organizations. Members of the cricket club, w...

A short drive from Cypress Point, Pebble Beach is situated at the southern end of California’s Monterey Peninsula and was developed by business entrepreneur Samuel F.B. Morse. Morse first saw the s...