Golf Digest Magazine says in its 2013/2014 rankings profile:
In 1998, mining company officers John Raese and Bob Gwynne started exploring a newly-acquired parcel of forest that their firm will eventually -- maybe a hundred years from now -- mine for high-quality lime
An interesting course that enjoys a beautiful Michigan forest setting, Pilgrim’s Run was principally routed and conceived by Kris Schumacher but finished by architect Mike DeVries who was called in to help with the bunkers and greens. DeVries naturally did a nice job with these features, bu
Pinehurst No 7 is best recommended for its difficulty, if you like that sort of thing, and the number of elevated greens rather than any excellence in golf architecture. Holes seem to continually play uphill here and the focus on difficult rather than intelligent hazard arrangement or thoughtful
Opened in 1995 to celebrate the centenary of the resort, Tom Fazio’s No. 8 course at Pinehurst is located on its own plot of undulating land away from the resort’s other courses. Fazio’s design work here is reasonably good with a couple of interesting holes, such as the short pa
An expensive public course facility in Westchester County, the Pound Ridge golf course was designed by legendary architect Pete Dye and first opened for play in 2008. The course continues a recent trend for Pete Dye, of focusing on the extravgent and dramatic over the strategic and challenging. H
Built for the Princeville development on the north shore of Hawaii’s Kaua’i Island, the Prince Course was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr and built atop lush tropical cliffs that tower 300 feet above Kauai’s picturesque Hanalei Bay. Cooled by Pacific breezes, the layout is one
The most surprising inclusion on any golf course ranking list, Rich Harvest Links was created by wealthy computer entrepreneur Jerry Rich on vast farmlands he owned in Sugar Grove, west of Chicago. Apparently denied membership at the Augusta National Golf Club, Rich decided to create his own priv
Located in Johns Creek, Georgia, close to the Atlanta Athletic Club, the Rivermont Country Club was originally developed as a municipal golf course back in 1973, and later purchased by the golf professional charged with its daily operation. The initial layout was designed by prolific architec
