BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Jordan Spieth has three majors and 11 PGA Tour wins at age 25. You'll now receive the top Golfweek stories each day directly in your inbox. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Jim Furyk, captain of the 2018 U.S. Ryder Cup team, has a U.S. Open victory, 17 PGA Tour wins and rounds of 58 and 59 on the tour. THE MATERIAL ON THIS SITE MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED, TRANSMITTED, CACHED OR OTHERWISE USED, EXCEPT WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION OF DISCOVERY GOLF, INC. © 2021 DISCOVERY GOLF, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Because as much as we’re riveted by the golf we see on TV, we know it’s the game at the state and local level that really connects us all. Click on each state name for our complete 2019-2020 Best in State rankings. Welcome to Golfweek’s Best 2021 list of top residential golf courses in the United States, first published in the print issue of Golfweek’s Ultimate Guide.These focus on courses within residential developments and include both private clubs and public-access tracks. FACT: Two founding members of the LPGA Tour, Alice Bauer and Marlene Bauer Hagge, were daughters of a course operator in Eureka. Deploying our trained panel of more than 1,700 low-handicap golfers to continually assess the courses of this nation is a mission whose main obstacle is daylight. FACT: In 1921, F. Scott Fitzgerald rented a room at White Bear Yacht Club to relax, play golf and write. FACT: Life-insurance salesman Pete Dye won the 1958 state am before changing careers. FACT: The state has hosted four men’s majors since 2001, eclipsed only by New York, which has hosted eight in that time. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Tennessee. We provide concierge style service with no service or transaction fee. FACT: 1969 LPGA Rookie of the Year Jane Blalock was born in Portsmouth. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Rhode Island. FACT: Many advances in club and ball design can be attributed to work done in Akron, known as a polymer capital. Generally, we deferred to a senior with a more impressive record provided that golfer is sincerely still chasing it, like Hale Irwin, 74, of Colorado, who made eight starts on the PGA Tour Champions last year. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Colorado. In 1977, Golf Digest first started ranking the best courses in each state, 11 years after the debut of our national list. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Florida. FACT: The modern wood tee, patented in 1925 under the name Reddy Tee, was invented by dentist William Lowell from Maplewood. FACT: From Wilmington, Ed (Porky) Oliver was a popular player who won eight times on the PGA Tour in the 1940s and ’50s. A merchant received clubs and balls from Scotland in 1743. Please check your email for a confirmation. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Raised in Avon, Patrick Rodgers won 11 times at Stanford University to equal the career record set there by Tiger Woods. Discover championship golf at affordable prices and see why Georgia State Park Golf Courses are known as “the sweetest deals in golf.” With designs that leverage the spectacular and diverse terrain across the state, Georgia State Park Golf Courses compare favorably to some of the state’s best private courses. 1 Tom Lehman won Player of the Year on three tours (Web.com, PGA and Champions). FACT: Utah native George Von Elm defeated Bobby Jones in the final of the 1926 U.S. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: A member of Abenaqui Country Club, Dana Harrity has won 16 of the state’s Women’s Golf Association events. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Born in Roswell, the LPGA Tour’s Gerina Piller has five top 10s in majors and is married to pro Martin Piller. Taking this long view guards against dramatic changes, but Whitten notes three new shake-ups at the premier spots. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for North Carolina. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Two-time state mid-am champ and Augusta National member Jeff Knox is famous for playing as a marker in the Masters when the field is cut to an uneven number. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Former World No. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: His swing formed on the Navy Golf Course in Orange County, Tiger Woods is chasing an Ohioan in career major-championship wins. For instance, we gave the nod to two-time major champ Stacy Lewis over Jack Nicklaus in Ohio, although the Golden Bear is unquestionably the Buckeye State’s greatest ever. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Keegan Bradley grew up a ski racer in Woodstock, then won in his major debut, at the 2011 PGA Championship. Start every day with our most popular content waiting in your inbox. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for North Dakota. --MA. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Washington. Editor’s note: (m) Modern, 1960 and after; (c) Classic, before 1960. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: 2017 PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas also shot the only nine-under-par round in U.S. Open history. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Wisconsin. Over 400 golf courses and 250 lodging options to choose from. The most westerly of Canada’s provinces, British Columbia is a largely mountainous, heavily-forested region that’s ideally suited to outdoor pursuits – if you’re into hunting, shooting or fishing then BC’s the place for you. That and other “Tin Cup” scenes were filmed at Tubac Golf Resort. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Silky putter and eight-time winner Brad Faxon has co-hosted the CVS Charity Classic with fellow statesman Billy Andrade since 1999, raising millions. FACT: Louisville Golf’s peak production was once over 800 persimmon heads per day. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Ryder Cupper Tony Finau was born in Salt Lake City, lives in Lehi, and is coached by Utahan Boyd Summerhays. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER:The long and short of it: Robert Garrigus led the PGA Tour in driving in 2009 and 2010 but used a 28.5-inch putter in 2012. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Missouri. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Nebraska. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Winner of the 2009 U.S. Women’s Amateur and Public Links, native Jennifer Song also has South Korean citizenship. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Cissye Gallagher won 12 state ams across four decades, the last coming in 2015, when she beat her daughter in the second round. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Iowa. IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT AND WOULD LIKE TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OPT-OUT OF THIRD-PARTY DATA SHARING, YOU MAY DO SO HERE: DO NOT SELL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: The oldest winner in Players Championship history, Fred Funk (48), also has nine wins on the PGA Tour Champions. FACT: LPGA legends Kathy Whitworth and Nancy Lopez each won the state women’s am, Lopez when she was just 12. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Two-time state Player of the Decade Frank Vana Jr. has 10 state mid-am victories and earned his first state senior am title last year at 56. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Hawaii. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Arkansas. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Raised in Raleigh and a Wake Forest grad, Webb Simpson named his daughter Wyndham for his first PGA Tour win (Wyndham Championship), in Greensboro. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Arizona. FACT: The state has the most courses per capita despite a short season and brutal weather. FACT: Born in Washington, D.C., and a two-time All-American at the University of Maryland, Deane Beman served as PGA Tour commissioner from 1974-’94. FACT: Cajun brothers born in St. Martinville, Lionel and Jay Hebert, each won the PGA Championship (1957 and 1960, respectively). Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for California. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Born in Kansas City, eight-time major champion Tom Watson, now 69, continues to break his age on the PGA Tour Champions. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Maryland. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: In addition to his commentary on NBC, seven-time tour winner Peter Jacobsen also has two senior majors. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Raised on the courses of Myrtle Beach and educated at Coastal Carolina University, Dustin Johnson has won in each of his 12 PGA Tour seasons. FACT: The men’s and women’s state ams have been played concurrently at the same venue every year since their inception in 1904. In addition to the rankings, we’re celebrating all 50 members of our union with a research project. If there is a number in the parenthesis, that indicates where that course ranks among Golfweek’s Best list of either modern or classic courses. But he and wife, Zelda, were said to fight and drink, and they were tossed. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Texas. FACT: Born in Port Gibson, Pete Brown was the first African American to win a PGA Tour event, in 1964. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: 1989 Open Championship winner, 13-time PGA Tour winner and owner of bacon-print pants Mark Calcavecchia was born in Laurel. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for New Mexico. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: A retired coal miner who guides hunting trips, John Hornbeck competed in the 2016 U.S. Senior Open and has made match play in several U.S. Senior Ams. FACT: The Alotian Club gets its name from the America’s Lights Out Tour golf trips that have included club founder Warren Stephens, son of the former Masters chairman. FACT: Members of the Philadelphia School of Golf Architecture included George Crump, William Flynn, George Thomas and A.W. Our other bias was domination. To start from the beginning and view how we determined the list based on over 260,000 reviews from the previous year, click here for the Top 50. Best U.S. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Following his eight-time tour winner dad, Kevin Tway was an All-American at Oklahoma State and won on tour last fall. It takes 25 evaluations accumulated over a 10-year period to qualify for a state ranking, versus 60 evaluations to be considered for our 100 Greatest. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Zach Johnson, of tiny Drake University, is a two-time major champion at two of the stoutest, most classic venues: Augusta National and the Old Course. A golfer whose shelves are buckling from state-amateur trophies trumps a journeyman touring pro, even if we’d rather have the latter as a four-ball partner. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Georgia. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Kentucky. FACT: Byron Nelson outlasted Ben Hogan in a nine-hole playoff to win a caddie tournament at Glen Garden Country Club in 1927. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Arizona State commit Ryggs Johnston won four high school state titles and is the reigning men’s am champion. FACT: The Greenbrier Resort served as a hospital during the Civil War and World War II and housed a secret 112,000-square-foot bunker commissioned by Dwight Eisenhower. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for South Dakota. The clockwise Black course is ranked 45th on Golf Digest’s 100 Greatest Public Courses, and the counterclockwise Red is 47th. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for New York. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Maine. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Walker Cupper and two-time state am champ Billy Hurley III served as a Navy officer before winning on the PGA Tour. FACT: The Florida State Golf Association is the largest in the U.S. with almost 300,000 members. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for New Jersey. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Alabama. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Virginia. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: David Toms won 13 PGA Tour events, including a major, and spent 175 weeks ranked in the top 10 in the world. That's because the majority of America's top courses are exclusive, available to only members and invited guests. The lengthier the list of career achievements, so it often goes, the more limited the current playing schedule, and so where to draw that line? Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for West Virginia. FACT: The game found the islands early—Moanalua Golf Club was founded in 1898. FACT: The inaugural U.S. Michigan golf courses reviewed in 2020: 419 Reviews of Michigan golf courses in 2020: 6,239 Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Connecticut. FACT: The first TV golf broadcast was the 1947 U.S. Open at St. Louis Country Club. FACT: From Sheridan, Wally Goodwin won the state am twice before going on to coach Tiger Woods at Stanford University. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Idaho. FACT: The USGA (1894) and PGA of America (1916) were both founded in New York City. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: A sales rep for Ping, Shannon Johnson is the 2018 U.S. Women’s Mid-Am champion after making runs to the finals and semifinals in 2016 and 2017, respectively. FACT: During June’s midnight sun, several courses are open 24 hours a day. FACT: Has hosted only two USGA events, and they were on the same weekend in 1994: the Girls’ Junior and the Men’s Public Links. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Born in Welch, club pro Darrell Kestner has competed in majors across five decades, most recently the 2012 PGA. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: 2019 U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland attended Washburn University on a basketball scholarship before transferring to the University of Kansas to play golf. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Phoebe Brinker bested all the boys in the 2016 state high school championship, won the 2017 women’s state am and is committed to Duke in 2020. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Montana. USE OF AND/OR REGISTRATION ON ANY PORTION OF THIS SITE CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF OUR VISITOR AGREEMENT (UPDATED 1/1/20), PRIVACY AND COOKIES NOTICE (UPDATED 1/1/20) AND CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Massachusetts. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: The oldest U.S. Open champ at age 45, Hale Irwin, now 74, still competes on the PGA Tour Champions, where he holds the record for most wins with 45. Surrey is the premier county in English golf with more golf courses in the Top 100 than any other county. Courses must offer public access and have received at least one review in 2020 to be eligible for this year's list. GolfPass is counting down the Golfers' Choice Top 50 U.S. golf courses according to our reviews community. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Greg Sanders won his sixth state am last summer and serves as rules chairman for the state golf association. FACT: John Bodenhamer, who replaced Mike Davis as the U.S. Open course setup man, is a former state am and junior champ. FACT: The PGA Tour will visit the state six times in the 2018-’19 season. Amateur after Jones had won the U.S. Open and Open Championship earlier that year. GOLF DIGEST MAY EARN A PORTION OF SALES FROM PRODUCTS THAT ARE PURCHASED THROUGH OUR SITE AS PART OF OUR AFFILIATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH RETAILERS. Best Georgia golf courses (2020/2021) 1. She sued the tour after being suspended for allegedly mismarking her ball. Florida golf packages, Orlando Golf packages, Tampa golf, Naples golf, Scottsdale golf. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Mississippi. FACT: Bobby Jones won the inaugural Georgia Amateur Championship at 14. Amateur and U.S. Open were played at Newport Country Club in 1895. FACT: The Old Course at the Homestead opened as six holes in 1892, and its first tee is the oldest continuously used in the country. Want to get involved? Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Illinois. He cried in the press conference announcing his upcoming captaincy of Team USA in the Ryder Cup in his home state, at Whistling Straits in 2020. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Ohio. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Amy Olson is chasing her first LPGA Tour win since capturing 20 collegiate events to break Juli Inkster’s record of 17. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Louisiana. FACT: A muny in Omaha is named after native Johnny Goodman, who was the last amateur to win the U.S. Open (1933). Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Nevada. But that quest is a pipe dream for most people in the United States. He won $2,700. “In Colorado, Ballyneal (pictured below) moves ahead of Castle Pines; in Louisiana, Squire Creek squeaks by Country Club of Louisiana; and in Wyoming, Shooting Star (also pictured below) shoots ahead of Snake River Sporting Club.” Architect Tom Fazio has original designs at the top of 10 states, and Tom Doak, Pete Dye, Alister MacKenzie and Jack Nicklaus have three each. Golfers salivate over the thought of playing the best golf courses. Tillinghast, among others. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for South Carolina. FACT: Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert was president of Ekwanok Country Club from 1904-’26. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: A farmer of rice, beans, corn and catfish, as well as a Little League coach, Wes McNulty has won 11 state ams. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Pennsylvania. FACT: The first golf school for women was founded at Pine Needles Golf Academy by LPGA Tour charter member Peggy Kirk Bell. FACT: The first female president of the USGA, Judy Bell, was born in Wichita. FACT: The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail includes 468 holes at 11 sites. This project came late in the architect’s life, long after he invented his middle name to distinguish himself from the great am, Robert Tyre Jones. Save time and money, 30 years of experience, golf experts standing by with unbiased advice. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Winfield’s Kevin Streelman set a PGA Tour record in 2014 when he closed with seven straight birdies to win. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Hall of Famer and Masters champ Fred Couples was born to a groundskeeper for the Seattle Parks Department and learned to play on Jefferson Park golf course. Click here to review a golf course, whether it’s your first or your 100th. Top 50 Classic Courses in Great Britain & Ireland, Top 35 Modern Courses in Great Britain & Ireland, Puerto Rico Open odds, predictions and PGA Tour picks, Masters attendance plans keep codependent city of Augusta on edge heading into April, WGC Workday Championship odds, predictions and PGA Tour picks, Honda Classic: Chase Koepka earns sponsor's exemption for PGA Tour event, Women's college golf player of the week: Pauline Roussin-Bouchard, South Carolina, Women's college golf team of the week: South Carolina, Men's college golf Player of the Week: AJ Ott, Colorado State, Men's college golf team of the week: Florida State Seminoles, Controversial Big Blue Wall won't be part of ANA Inspiration this year, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Minnesota. Golf Digest has been publishing a Best in State ranking every other year since 1977, making this the 22nd edition. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Utah. FACT: Built during prohibition, the Aroostook Valley Country Club golf shop is on American soil, but the course, and most important, the 19th hole, are on the Canadian side of the border. We rank the top venues in Georgia (2019-'20) Some courses are ranked in Best in State but did not receive enough ballots to be considered for national lists. FACT: Jack Nicklaus, Juli Inkster and Annika Sorenstam each won a USGA championship at The Broadmoor early in their careers. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Indiana. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Michigan. Then each course is ranked against other courses in its state, or nationally, to produce the final rankings. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Kansas. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Oklahoma. By: Larry Bohannan, Palm Springs Desert Sun, It will be a celebration of the 50th playing of the ANA Inspiration, but April’s renewal of the first major championship of the year will (…), Last man in the field Hayden Buckley wins Korn Ferry Tour event in a playoff, Jarred Garcia logs one-shot win in APGA's Black History Month Classic, USGA seeks to simplify Rules of Amateur Status with proposed changes to sponsorship, prize money and professionalism, Genesis Invitational: Tony Finau goes low on Sunday but still falls short in playoff, Madelene Sagstrom opens up about past sexual abuse in new LPGA Drive On feature, Stanford's Aline Krauter will play ANA Inspiration rather than tee it up at Augusta National Women's Amateur, For second year in a row, ANA Inspiration will not include fans but likely see a full field. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Chris DiMarco is the all-time leader in career earnings (over $22 million) among golfers born in the Empire State. FACT: 1935 state-am champ Edward Stimpson invented the device to measure green speeds, now known as a Stimpmeter. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Alaska. FACT: The Loop Course at Forest Dunes is reversible. Alabama FACT: Has the most nine-hole courses of any state (254). BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Three-time major winner Brooks Koepka is from West Palm Beach and was a three-time All-American at Florida State. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Vermont. FACT: Players from the Constitution State, including Hall of Famers Gene Sarazen, Julius Boros, Glenna Collett Vare and Doug Ford, have won 21 national championships. For each state, we’ve cited a fact about its contribution to golf history, and we’ve boldly named the “best active player.” Obviously, “best” and “active” are terms as volatile as they are subjective—especially when lumping together men, women, pros and amateurs—but that’s what makes this sort of debate fun. Golf Courses by State. FACT: Al Geiberger shot the first 59 on the PGA Tour, at the Memphis Classic in 1977. Reporting and state items by Joel Beall, Stephen Hennessey, Ryan Herrington, Hally Leadbetter, Keely Levins, Christopher Powers, Nicole Rae, Claire Rogers, Brittany Romano and Sam Weinman. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Delaware. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: In 2018, Ben Conroy made a clean sweep, winning the state am, mid-am, four-ball and father/son events. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Thirteen-time state am champ Mark Plummer (and his stunning mustache) took Tiger Woods to the last hole in their semifinal match at the 1995 U.S. Am. FACT: Charleston has a claim as American golf’s birthplace. FACT: Remember Roy McAvoy breaking all his clubs, save the 7-iron? FACT: Tiger Woods’ first PGA Tour victory was the 1996 Las Vegas Invitational. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Five-time tour winner Billy Mayfair topped Tiger Woods in a playoff in the 1998 L.A. Open. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: A 12-time PGA Tour winner, Steve Stricker has amassed nearly $44 million in career earnings. FACT: The Evans Scholars Foundation, in the village of Golf, has provided college scholarships to more than 10,000 caddies. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Born in Huntsville, Stewart Cink won the 2009 Open Championship over then-59-year-old Tom Watson and has bronzes in the other three majors. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: A Nashville native and Vanderbilt grad, Brandt Snedeker has nine PGA Tour titles and a FedEx Cup. FACT: The first design by architect Perry Maxwell was four holes on his dairy farm that would become Dornick Hills Golf & Country Club. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Wyoming. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for Oregon. Lew Worsham beat Sam Snead, and it aired locally. Click here to view our Best in State course rankings for New Hampshire. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Two-time major champ Stacy Lewis, born in Toledo, made every cut in 2017 and donated her sole winner’s check that year to relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey. It’s also one of the biggest counties in English golf with 128 golf clubs affiliated to the Surrey Golf Union.The Surrey Ladies’ County Golf Association was founded in 1929, six years after the men formed their golf Union. Augusta National (Augusta) [1, 2] Augusta National is the vision of Bobby Jones and his chosen architect, Alister MacKenzie. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: Born in Wayne, LPGA Tour winner Marina Alex also won the 2010 SEC Championship for Vanderbilt. “Indeed, most courses ranked in any state are legitimate America’s 100 Greatest contenders, merely lacking a sufficient number of evaluations to merit consideration,” says Ron Whitten, our senior editor of architecture. BEST ACTIVE PLAYER: 2014 U.S. Women’s Open champ Michelle Wie was five shots away from qualifying for the men’s edition in 2006. 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