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No. 35
Architecture
Rodeo Dunes No. 35

Mount Up

Hold on for a bucking ride through Rodeo Dunes, the latest adventure from America’s first family of course builders

No. 35
Adventures
Santapazienza Brazil No. 35

Joga Bonito

Welcome to Santapazienza, the hidden Brazilian course making a case to be the best in South America

No. 35
Architecture
Covesea Golf Links Scotland No. 35

Through the Fire

A tale of true love, tragedy, perseverance and golf in the Scottish Highlands

 
Architecture
Whistling Straits

The Broken Tee Society Composite Course: 2025

Par 71 | 6,479 yards

No. 34
Architecture
San Pedro Putting Course No. 34

It’s Not Putt-Putt

Hidden in plain sight at a popular putting course in San Antonio: lessons in classic golf course architecture

No. 34
Architecture
Old Barnwell Kids Course No. 34

The Beauty of Plan B

The unexpected success of the Kids’ Course at Old Barnwell and the value of accidental joy

No. 34
Architecture
Prairie Dunes Yardage Book No. 34

No. 6 at Prairie Dunes

Par 4, 387 yards Architects: Perry Maxwell (1937), Press Maxwell (1957)

No. 34
Architecture
Brian Zager No. 34

This Is Not a Game

Brian Zager is designing golf courses—and potentially the game's future—from his laptop

 
Architecture
Pasatiempo

Every Hole at Pasatiempo

Strolling through a MacKenzie classic

No. 33
Architecture
Secret in the Palms O'Donnell Golf Club No. 33

Secret in the Palms

One of the desert’s oldest and most influential courses is hiding in plain sight

No. 33
Architecture
Terror at LACC No. 33

Terror at LACC

The anger, joy and change inspired by the smallest hole at one of America’s greatest courses

No. 32
Architecture
Old Town Club No. 32

Twin Galleries

Alongside one of the South’s great art museums stands Old Town Club, the canvas where Palmer, Strange, Wadkins and more learned to paint

No. 32
Adventures
Caves Valley No. 32

Level Up

A rare invite to Caves Valley, the club long home to presidents and captains of industry that’s aiming for bigger things

 
Architecture
Pinehurst No. 2

Something You Forgot

No matter how many times Pinehurst No. 2 gets remixed, nothing can top the original

No. 31
Architecture
Monterey Peninsula Country Club No. 31

Strantz’s Last Stand

The brilliance and tragedy of Mike Strantz’s final design

 
Architecture
Lido Channel hole 4 square

The Broken Tee Society Composite Course: 2024

The votes are in—these are the 18 best holes that the BTS played in 2024

No. 30
Architecture
Dunes Club North by Northwest Mike Keiser

North by Northwest

Mike Keiser's dream of Bandon Dunes began at the Dunes Club, a quiet Michigan course that's been called the best nine-holer in America

No. 30
Architecture
Cruit Island

Yardage Book: No. 6 at Cruit Island Golf Club

A mysterious sea creature. A band of Irish rebels. One unforgettable hole.

No. 29
Architecture
Soule Park No. 29

Yardage Book: No. 5 at Soule Park

Par 5 - 490 yards

No. 29
Architecture

When Sisyphus Succeeded

One man's decades-long journey to the top of Lookout Mountain

No. 29
Architecture
Ladera TGJ No. 29

Call it Heaven

The secret ingredient inside Ladera, Irving Azoff and Eddy Cue's ultra-private California playground

Ep.163
Architecture
Rosapenna

Ireland with the Bard

US Poet Laureate Billy Collins brings words to the wonders of golf in Donegal

No. 28
Architecture
Yardage Book No. 14 Portmarnock Ireland

Yardage Book: No. 14 at Portmarnock Golf Club

Padraig Harrington deconstructs one of his all-time favorite links holes

No. 28
Architecture
Let's Rip Par in Half Royal The Country Club Ouimet

Let’s Rip Par in Half

A call to play beyond the rigid numbers on the scorecard

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