Heathland Courses

The Old Course proved golf could be sublime away from the sea, carved through Berkshire heath and pines. Bobby Jones called a 66 h...

The New Course at Sunningdale is a companion piece to the Old, routed over more dramatic slopes by Harry Colt. It has hosted final...

The Hotchkin Course is the spiritual home of English heathland golf, its ragged bunkers cut ten feet deep into sand. It served as ...

Alwoodley was the first course laid out by Alister MacKenzie, later the architect of Augusta National. The Yorkshire heath routing...

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

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

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...

Royal Melbourne West is the finest course in the southern hemisphere, MacKenzie sandbelt genius with greens perched and bunkers fl...

Kingston Heath is a sandbelt jewel ten miles from the city, its bunkering considered the best in Australia. The par 3s are world c...

Metropolitan is the quiet giant of the sandbelt, host of seven Australian Opens and the 2001 World Cup of Golf. Its greens are lar...

Morfontaine is the French heathland cathedral, sandy turf under birch and pine 40 kilometers from Paris. Tom Simpson routed it aro...

Walton Heath opened in 1904 on high Surrey heath, designed by Herbert Fowler, and James Braid served as its professional for decad...

Swinley Forest opened around 1910 and is one of the most admired designs of Harry Colt, who called it his least bad course. Its fa...

Ganton sits in the Vale of Pickering on sandy soil, giving it firm turf and gorse lined fairways unusual for an inland course. Har...