Parkland Courses

The Centenary Course at Gleneagles staged the 2014 Ryder Cup, where Europe won 16 and a half to 11 and a half under Paul McGinley....

Loch Lomond wraps parkland golf around the shore of the loch, with Ben Lomond rising over the closing holes. It hosted the Scottis...

The West Course, nicknamed the Burma Road, closes with the famous water guarded par 5 18th in front of the clubhouse. It has hoste...

Adare Manor was rebuilt by Tom Fazio into a pristine parkland stadium with the River Maigue winding through every hole. The 2027 R...

The Twenty Ten Course was designed by Ross McMurray to stage the 2010 Ryder Cup, decided on the Monday by Graeme McDowell. It roll...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Hirono was Charles Hugh Alison masterpiece, deep bunkers and elevated greens on forested hills south of Osaka. It has topped Japan...

Valderrama is the Augusta of Europe, cork oaks framing exacting holes near Sotogrande. It staged the 1997 Ryder Cup, the first in ...

The Albatros Course at Le Golf National is a stadium of water and tiered greens outside Paris. It hosts the French Open annually a...

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...

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

Kasumigaseki Country Club opened in 1929 near Tokyo, and its East Course hosted the 1957 Canada Cup, where victory for Japan spark...

The Brabazon course at The Belfry opened in 1977, designed by Peter Alliss and Dave Thomas, and became the home of European Ryder ...

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...