Supposedly founded by a group of bespectacled men from Boston, the charming Myopia Hunt Club was established as a golf, horse and hunting club in the village of South Hamilton in 1894. Designed by member Herbert Leeds, the first nine holes were opened in 1896, with the full eighteen completed by

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 himself on rolling pastureland he had purchased north-east of the city. Together with son William,

Set amongst the glorious pinehills and spacious sand dunes of eastern Massachusetts, the Old Sandwich golf course was designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw and first opened for play in 2005. Located a short drive south of Plymouth and within three miles of Cape Cod, this private members club wa

The Pasatiempo Golf Club was founded by Marion Hollins, one of the finest female athletes of the 1920s and a woman who had driven the development of the Cypress Point Club before making a fortune investing in a Californian oil company. With her wealth she purchased a 570-acre parcel of land in th

Situated at the southern end of California’s Monterey Peninsula, Pebble Beach was developed by business entrepreneur Samuel F.B. Morse, who first saw the property while acting as liquidator for a company wanting to offload its failed investment in the region. Morse felt that a golf course a

‘I sincerely believe this course to be the fairest test of championship golf I have ever designed.’ Donald RossAn American icon, Pinehurst was created as a holiday village and winter health retreat by Massachusetts entrepreneur James Tufts, following his 1895 purc

One of the surprise packets of northern New Jersey, the Plainfield County Club was established in 1890 but today golf’s on a restored Donald Ross masterpiece that dates back to 1921. Built atop the lush, rolling slopes of Edison, the Ross layout is noted for its ferociously contoured greens

A genuine American treasure, the Prairie Dunes Country Club is located in the heart of central Kansas, but built among the sort of undulating sandhills that one would expect to find along the Scottish coastline. The club was founded by Emerson Carey, a prominent local golfer who discovered this n

One of the most exclusive clubs in America, the San Francisco Golf Club was formed toward the end of the 19th century but did not begin golfing on its present A.W. Tillinghast layout until 1915. Located a few miles south of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Tillinghast course was a landmark in this cou

The 2006 opening of Southampton’s Sebonack Golf Club was one of the most eagerly anticipated in many a decade. For a start the course was built immediately beside the hallowed golfing ground of the National Golf Links of America, and secondly it was the result of a rather unlikely design co