‘Never was a links more adapted by nature for a golf course than that fine stretch of ground lying round the Bay of Cruden’ Golf Magazine, 1899Occupying some of the mightiest duneland in Scotland, Cruden Bay is a cult classic situated along the Bay of Cruden twent

Part of a greater residential development on the shores of a Georgian lake, the Golf Club at Cuscowilla layout is a typically playable, walkable and enjoyable creation from America’s premier modern design firm. Distinctive for its rugged bunker shapes and heavy red sand, the opening nine sw

Opening in 2002, the Dallas National Golf Club is a distinctive modern facility built owithin an old rock quarryn rocky ground less than ten miles from downtown Dallas. The steep and heavily wooded property measures almost 400 acres but for years it had sat dormant because zoning issues prevented

Set in the scenic foothills of the Lower Sonoran Desert, the Desert Forest Golf Club was founded by ambitious real estate entrepreneurs as part of their plans to transform an isolated rural wasteland into a thriving residential hamlet. The course is situated within the town of Carefree, north of

Founded by the brains behind the hugely successful Trivial Pursuit board game, the Devil’s Pulpit Golf Association boasts two wild courses in the rolling countryside of Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment. Less than five miles separate the original Devil’s Pulpit course from the slight

Located in the mountains of Banner Elk, Diamond Creek is a high-end golf course that required a great deal of explosive and earthmoving work to create. Budget was clearly not an issue here, and Tom Fazio was the ideal choice of designer for such an inhospitable yet attractive property, Fazio shap

Famous as the birthplace of Napoléon Bonaparte, the French island of Corsica is a playground for wealthy holidaymakers but strangely home to just one golf course, Sperone, which is built on rocky headlands and overlooks the pristine coves and azure waters of the Mediterranean. The course w

‘This is a course I want to be identified with, one I will be able to say with pride - I did that one.' Greg NormanStretching along a curving beachfront ridge at Doughmore Bay in the tiny town of Doonbeg, the spectacular new Doonbeg Golf Club is surrounded by some of th

Double Eagle is a small, private club developed by golfing enthusiast John H. McConnell, the founder of a multi-billion dollar steel company established back in the 1950s near the Ohio capital of Columbus. McConnell built his club a little north of the city, on farming grounds he had initially pu

South Africa’s most internationally established golf club, the Durban Country Club was founded in 1920 following the flooding of the Durban Golf Club during the South African Open, and the fear that the city would not host the event again unless another course was built. A new club was form