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Augusta National hosts the Masters each April, the only major played on the same course every year. Amen Corner, the 13th and 14th...

Pebble Beach runs along the Monterey peninsula with the sixth through tenth holes hanging over the Pacific. It hosted the 2010 and...

Cypress Point moves from dunes to forest to one of the great finishes in golf, the 15th, 16th and 17th over the Pacific. The 218 y...

Pinehurst No 2 is Donald Ross masterpiece, crowned turtleback greens punishing anything offline. It has hosted more single course ...

Oakmont is the toughest championship course in America, its church pew bunkers and slick greens averaging 13 on the stimpmeter. Jo...

Shinnecock is the oldest incorporated golf club in the United States, its shingled clubhouse from 1892. The links rolls over South...

Macdonald built the National as an American answer to the home of golf, importing replicas of famous holes from Britain. The Redan...

Winged Foot West is a Tillinghast giant of pushed up greens and deep bunkers, host of six US Opens. Geoff Ogilvy won the brutal 20...

The Black Course at Bethpage State Park was the first true public venue to host a US Open, in 2002 when Tiger Woods won. Its warni...

Merion East fits a championship course into 111 tight acres outside Philadelphia. Ben Hogan struck the famous 1 iron to the 72nd h...

Pine Valley is a cathedral of sandy scrub and crippled waste, each hole isolated in its own world. It has topped American course r...

Whistling Straits was built on a dead Lake Michigan flatland into a dunes fantasy with more than 1,000 bunkers. It staged three PG...

Bandon Dunes proved Americans would fly to remote coast and walk links golf with caddies, no carts anywhere. The 13 par 4 over cli...

Pacific Dunes rides higher cliffs than its older sibling, the fourth and fifth holes among the most photographed in golf. Tom Doak...

Harbour Town Golf Links is a short, precise examination around small greens and oaks, its red and white lighthouse behind the 18th...

The Ocean Course was built on a barrier island with ten holes on the Atlantic, and staged the 1991 Ryder Cup, the War on the Shore...

The South Course near Detroit was dubbed the Monster by Ben Hogan after his 1951 US Open win. Donald Ross built it and Robert Tren...

Riviera is the best course on the PGA Tour rota, George Thomas kikuyu gem in the canyon above Los Angeles. Hogan won the 1948 US O...

The Stadium Course invented modern stadium golf and hosts The Players Championship every March. The island green 17th is the most ...

Shadow Creek was carved from empty Nevada desert into a lush fantasy of pines, streams and hills, costing estimates near 60 millio...

The Stadium Course hosts the WM Phoenix Open, the best attended tournament in golf. The 16th, a par 3 inside a bowl of 20,000 fans...

The Stadium Course at PGA West is Dye at his most ferocious, deep bunkers, railroads ties and greens angled beyond comfort. It hos...

Southern Hills has hosted eight major championships, from the 1958 US Open of Tommy Bolt to the 2022 PGA Championship won by Justi...

The Country Club staged the 1913 US Open where 20 year old caddie Francis Ouimet beat Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, the upset that Ame...

Seminole is a low slung Ross gem on Jupiter Island, its east wind routing famous among architects. Ben Hogan practiced there every...

Chicago Golf Club is the oldest 18 hole course in the United States, Charles Blair Macdonald founding work at Wheaton. It staged t...

Crystal Downs pairs MacKenzie routing with Ross greens on bluffs above Lake Michigan, blind shots and wild greens throughout. It i...

Sand Hills was built with almost no earth moved, a minimalism manifesto on 13,000 remote acres of Nebraska grass covered hills. It...

Prairie Dunes rolls over Kansas prairie with Maxwell greens folded into the land and yucca lining fairways. It has hosted US Opens...

Medinah Country Club opened in the 1920s outside Chicago, and its No 3 course has hosted three US Opens and two PGA Championships,...

The Lake Course of the Olympic Club winds through cypress and pine on hilly ground near the Pacific. It has hosted the US Open fiv...

Tillinghast designed the Lower Course at Baltusrol in New Jersey in the early 1920s, and it has staged multiple US Opens, includin...

Owned by the City of San Diego, Torrey Pines opened in 1957 on bluffs above the Pacific. The South Course was lengthened for champ...

Chambers Bay was built on a former gravel quarry beside Puget Sound in Washington and opened in 2007, designed by Robert Trent Jon...

Bay Hill opened in Orlando in 1961 with a design by Dick Wilson, and Arnold Palmer later bought the club and made it his winter ho...

Jack Nicklaus built Muirfield Village near his hometown of Columbus, naming it after the Scottish course where he won his first Op...

The North Course of the Los Angeles Country Club was designed by George C Thomas in the 1920s and restored by Gil Hanse around 201...

Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, opened in 1924. Its Blue Course hosted the 1964 US Open, won by Ken Venturi thro...

Robert Trent Jones Sr designed Hazeltine National near Minneapolis, opening it in 1962. Tony Jacklin won the 1970 US Open there by...