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Best 1 Pacific Dunes

Pacific Dunes is a renowned links-style golf course located in Bandon, Oregon. Designed by Tom Doak, it’s notable for its challenging coastal terrain and demanding play within sight of the Pacific Ocean. The course offers a unique experience for serious golfers seeking a traditional test of skill an...

2 Seminole Golf Club

Seminole Golf Club, situated in Florida, represents a significant example of classic American golf course design by Donald Ross. Its links-style layout and historic importance have earned it recognition as one of the nation’s premier private courses. The club is primarily utilized by discerning golf...

3 National Golf Links of America

The National Golf Links of America, established in 1911, represents a pivotal moment in golf course architecture. Designed by Charles Blair Macdonald, it’s one of the earliest and most significant links-style courses in the United States. Its design profoundly influenced subsequent courses worldwide...

4 Crystal Downs Country Club

Crystal Downs Country Club is a renowned private golf course located in Michigan. Designed by Alister MacKenzie and Perry Maxwell, it’s notable for its classic links-style layout and significant historical importance within American golf architecture. The course offers a challenging experience prima...

5 Bandon Dunes Golf Course

Bandon Dunes Golf Course is a renowned links-style course located on Oregon's coastline. Designed by David McLay Kidd in 1999, it’s notable for its challenging terrain and dramatic coastal views. The course has significantly influenced modern golf, attracting serious players seeking a traditional go...

6 Fishers Island Club

The Fishers Island Club is a historic links-style golf course located on Fishers Island, New York. Designed by Seth Raynor in 1926, it’s recognized as one of America's premier private courses. The island setting and traditional design offer a unique golfing experience for serious players seeking a c...

7 Kiawah Island Golf Resort Ocean Course

The Ocean Course in South Carolina, designed by Pete Dye, hosted the 1991 Ryder Cup and the 2012 PGA Championship on its challenging coastal layout.

8 Whistling Straits Straits Course

Pete Dye-designed course along the Lake Michigan shore in Haven, Wisconsin, opened in 1998 and host of three PGA Championships as well as the 2021 Ryder Cup.

9 Newport Country Club

Rhode Island club founded in 1893, one of the five founding clubs of the USGA in 1894, and host of the inaugural US Open and US Amateur championships in 1895.

10 Maidstone Club

Maidstone Club in East Hampton, New York, founded 1891, is one of the oldest seaside golf clubs in the United States and features a links-style layout along the Atlantic coast.

11 Old Macdonald Golf Course

Old Macdonald is a course at Oregon's Bandon Dunes Resort designed by Tom Doak and Jim Urbina, opening in 2010 as a tribute to the architectural principles of C.B. Macdonald.

12 El Saler Golf Course

Spanish public links-style course near Valencia designed by Javier Arana and opened in 1974, consistently ranked among the top courses in Spain.

13 Shoreacres
Shoreacres

Shoreacres is a private 1916 Seth Raynor-designed golf course in Illinois, notable for its dramatic elevation changes along the bluffs of Lake Michigan.

14 Kittansett Club

Massachusetts links-style club in Marion on Buzzards Bay founded in 1922, host of the 1953 Walker Cup and consistently ranked among the top courses in the United States.

15 Garden City Golf Club

Garden City Golf Club on Long Island, New York, founded 1899 and designed by Devereux Emmet, hosted the 1902 U.S. Amateur Championship and is a classic parkland layout.

16 Castle Stuart Golf Links

Castle Stuart Golf Links is a links course near Inverness, Scotland, co-designed by Mark Parsinen and Gil Hanse and opened in 2009, that hosted the Scottish Open from 2011 to 2013.

17 Streamsong Resort Black Course

Third course at Streamsong Resort in central Florida, designed by Gil Hanse and opened in 2017 on reclaimed phosphate mining land in Polk County.

18 Chambers Bay Golf Course

Chambers Bay is a public links-style course in Washington state designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., notable for hosting the 2015 U.S. Open Championship.

19 Yas Links Abu Dhabi

Kyle Phillips-designed links-style course on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE, opened in 2010 and consistently ranked among the top courses in the Middle East.

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