Built along a thin peninsula that protrudes several miles into Buzzards Bay, The Kittansett Club of Massachusetts was established in 1922 and its golf course designed by founding member Frederic Hood. Hood, who apparently consulted with William Flynn on the routing and general design, is the man

The original 18-hole course at Lancaster Country Club is one of the finest by prolific designer William Flynn, the course about an hour outside of Philadelphia and blessed with more varied and suitable undulations than the likes of Huntingdon Valley, Philadelphia Country Club and Rolling Green. T

Founded in 1908, Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Country Club moved to its present location a few miles south-west of Allentown in 1928, when a new course designed by William Flynn first opened for play. Set beside the Little Lehigh Creek, much of the layout is routed across a lush, rolling ledge but

The Long Cove Club on Hilton Head Island was developed in the early 1980s as a resident-only golf club that would be the exclusive domain of homeowners within the 630-acre development. The course was designed by Pete Dye, who built a series of distinctive lowland holes around lagoons, wetlands an

Owners of the most valuable golf real estate in America, the Los Angeles Country Club is located in the heart of Beverly Hills and significant in golfing circles for its North Course, which was redesigned by member George Thomas in 1927. An amateur architect from Philadelphia, Thomas moved to Cal

An apparently natural marriage between a young minimalist architect and the sand dunes of the Michigan shoreline, the Lost Dunes Golf Club was, in reality, one of the most complex and unlikely success stories of the 1990s. Founded by businessman Jeff Shearer, the club is located in the south-west

A prestigious East Hampton institution, the Maidstone Club was established in 1891 but its members didn’t start golfing until the introduction of a modest three-hole course a few years later. As the game’s popularity increased so too did its golf course, from three to seven to nine an

The small city of Marquette is not only the most heavily populated on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but also likely to be the most golf-crazed in the northern parts of the state. Despite a modest membership and short golf season, the Marquette Golf Club does a roaring trade and so busy wa

Situated in the heart of the Sonoma Valley, north of San Francisco, the Mayacama Golf Club opened in 2001 as a prestigious golf, wine and residential retreat built for a small, discerning membership. Set attractively within the foothills of the Mayacamas mountain range, the club’s sprawling

One of America’s most highly-rated tournament venues, the Medinah Country Club was founded by Shriners from Chicago's Medinah Temple, who in the early 1920s purchased enough land in northern DuPage County to build a world-class country retreat complete with three full-length golf courses. T