2021 Golf Digest Public Rankings


 

NOTE:  Courses I have played to date shown in BLUE

NOTE:  Courses that are now private or closed are in RED

 

 

Rank Course Location Architect
1 Pebble Beach Pebble Beach, CA Neville & Grant
2 Pacific Dunes Bandon, OR Tom Doak
3 Whistling Straits (Straits) Kohler, WI Pete Dye
4 Ocean Course @ Kiawah Kiawah Island, SC Pete Dye
5 Shadow Creek North Los Vegas, NV Tom Fazio
6 Pinehurst #2 Pinehurst, NC Donald Ross
7 Bandon Dunes Bandon, OR David McClay Kidd
8 Bethpage Black Farmingdale, NY Burbak & Tillinghast
9 Erin Hills Erin, WI Hurdzan, Fry & Whitten
10 Spyglass Hill Pebble Beach, CA Trent Jones, Sr
11 TPC Sawgrass Ponta Vedra Beach, FL Pete Dye
12 Old McDonald Bandon, OR Doak & Urbina
13 Bandon Trails Bandon, OR Coore & Crenshaw
14 Arcadia Bluffs (Bluffs) Arcadia, MI Smith & Henderson
15 Sheep Ranch (NEW) Bandon,OR Coore & Crenshaw
16 Blackwolf Run River Kohler, WI Pete Dye
17 Pasatiempo Santa Cruz, CA MacKenzie & Hunter
18 Sand Valley  Nekoosa, WI Coore & Crenshaw
19 Dye Course at French Lick French Lick, IN Pete Dye
20 Streamsong Red Streamsong, FL Coore & Crenshaw
21 Manele Lanai, HI Jack Nicklaus
22 Chambers Bay University Place, WA Robert Trent Jones, Jr
23 Kapalua Plantation Kapalua, HI Coore & Crenshaw
24 Karsten Creek Stillwater, OK Tom Fazio
25 Harbor Town Hilton Head Island, SC Dye & Nicklaus
26 Streamsong Blue Streamsong, FL Tom Doak
27 Mauna Kea Kohala Coast, HI Robert Trent Jones, Sr
28 Primland Highlands Meadows of Dan, VA Donald Steel
29 Mammoth Dunes Nekoosa, WI David McLay Kidd
30 Ozark National (NEW)
Hollister, MO Coore & Crenshaw
31 Homestead Cascades Hot Springs, VA William Flynn
32 Pinehurst #4 (NEW) Pinehurst, NC Gil Hanse& Jim Wagner
33 Forest Dunes Roscommon, MI Tom Weiskopf
34 Streamsong Black Streamsong, FL Gil Hanse& Jim Wagner
35 The Quarry at Giants Ridge Biwabik, MN Jeff Brauer
36 Sea Island (Seaside) St. Simonds Island, GA Charles Alison / Joe Lee
37 Greenbrier (Old White) White Sulpher Springs, WV C. B. MacDonald
38 Gamble Sands Brewster, WA David McLay Kidd
39 Black Diamond Ranch (Quarry)(NEW) Lecanto, FL Tom Fazio
40 Pronghorn (Nicklaus) Bend, OR Jack Nicklaus
41 Fallen Oak Saucier, MS Tom Faziio
42 Torrey Pines (South) La Jolla, CA William Bell
43 Golden Horseshoe (Gold) Williamsburg, VA Robert Trent Jones, Sr
44 The Broadmoor (East) Colorado Srings, CO Ross & Jones, Sr
45 Prairie Club (Dunes) Valentine, NE Lehman & Brands
46 Yale (NEW) New Haven, CT MacDonald & Raynor
47 Whistling Straits (Irish) Kohler, WI Pete Dye
48 May River Bluffton, SC Jack Nicklaus
49 Tobacco Road Sanford, NC Mike Strantz
50 Sentry World Stevens Point, WI Robert Trent Jones, Jr
51 Cordevalle San Martin, CA Robert Trent Jones, Jr
52 Arcadia Bluffs (South) (NEW) Arcadia, MI Fry & Sraka
53 Links at Spanish Bay Pebble Beach, CA TrentJones, Jr/Tatum & Watson
54 Point O’ Woods  (NEW) Benton Harbor, MI Robert Trent Jones, Sr    (Now Private)
55 PGA West Stadium La Quinta, CA Pete Dye
56 Cog Hill #4 (Dubsdread) Lemont, IL Dick Wilson
57 Wilderness Club Eureka, MT Faldo, Schmidt & Curley
58 Paa-Ko-Ridge Sandia Paark, NM Ken Dye
59 Loop at Forest Dunes (Black) Roscommon, MI Tom Doak
60 Mossy Oak West Point, ,MS Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner
61 Crosswater Sunriver, OR Bob Cupp
62 Classic at Maddens Brainerd, MN Scott Hoffman
63 Bay Harbor (Links/Quarry) BayHarbor, MI Arthur Hills & Stephen Kircher
64 Dunes Golf & Beach Club Myrtle Beach SC Robert Trent Jones, Sr
65 Wolfe Creek Mesquite, NV Dennis Rider
66 Red Sky (Norman) Wocott, CO Greg Norman
67 Greywalls Marquette, MI Mike DeVries
68 Lawsonia Links Green Lake, WI Langford & Moreau
69 Wilderness at Fortune Bay Tower, MN Jeff Brauer
70 Cascata Boulder City, NV Rees Jones
71 Wild Horse Gothenburg, NE Proctor & Axland
72 Nemacolin Woodlands (Mystic Rock) Farmington, PA Pete Dye
73 Pine Needles Southern Pines, NC Donald Ross
74 Blackwolf Run (Meadow Valley) Kohler, WI Pete Dye
75 Old Waverly West Point, MS Bob Cupp & Jerry Pate
76 Pinehurst #8 Pinehurst, NC Tom Fazio
77 Great Waters at Lake Oconee Eatonton, GA Jack Nicklaus
78 Loop at Forest Dunes (Red) Roscommon, MI Tom Doak
79 Red Sky(Fazio) Wolcott, CO Tom Fazio
80 Firestone (South) (NEW) Akron, OH Robert Trent Jones, Sr
81 Princeville Makai Princeville, Kauai, HI Robert Trent Jones, Jr
82 Tetherow Bend, OR David McLay Kidd
83 The Pfau Course at Indiania University (NEW) Bloomington IN Steve Smyers
84 The Virtues Nashport OH Arthur Hills
85 Caledonia Pawley’s Island, SC Mike Strantz
86 EdgewoodTahoe (NEW) Stateline NV GeorgeFazio
87 Doral (Blue Monster) Doral, FL Dick Wilson/Gil Hanse

 

88 Quintero Peoria, AZ Rees Jones & Steve Weisser
89 TPC Colorado (NEW) Berthoud, CO Art Schaupeter
90 World Woods (Pine Barrens) Brookville, FL Tom Fazio
91 The Bull at Pinehurst Farms (NEW) Sheboygan Falls, WI Jack Nicklaus
92 Poppy Hills Pebble Beach, CA Robert Trent Jones, Jr
93 Midpines Southern Pines, NC Donald Ross
94 Bulle Rock Havre de Grace MD Pete Dye
95 Grizzly Ranch (NEW) Portola, CA Bob Cupp
96 Kingsmill (River) (NEW) Williamsurg, VA Pete Dye
97 Prairie Club (Pines) Valentine, NE Graham Marsh
98 Rams Hill (NEW) Borrego Springs, CA Tom Fazio
99 The McLemore Club (NEW) Rising Fawn, GA Bill Bergin & Rees Jones
100 Spring Creek (NEW) Zion Crossroads, VA Ed Carton
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