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2010 Golfweek’s Top 100 Course Lists
2010 Golfweek’s Best Classic Courses Top 20
1. Pine Valley Golf Club
2. Cypress Point Club
3. Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
4. National Golf Links of America
5. Merion Golf Club - East
6. Oakmont Country Club
7. Crystal Downs
8. Pebble Beach Golf Links
9. Augusta National Golf Club
10. Fishers Island Golf Club
11. San Francisco Golf Club
12. Chicago Golf Club
13. Prairie Dunes Country Club
14. Seminole Golf Club
15. Pinehurst Resort # 2
16. Winged Foot Golf Club West
17. Oakland Hills CC South
18. Garden City Golf Club
19. Bethpage State Park (Black)
20. The Country Club Composite
2010 redanman 25 Classics of Note - Fun, Exciting, Quality Courses - the Four on Top and the rest - and why
Pine Valley GC - more architecture than you know what to do with - populated by gentlemen - America's Best Club
Shinnecock Hills GC - America's Best competition Golf Course - Stanford White & The Hamptons
National Golf Links of America - Scotland's Gift to America with Charles Blair Macdonald's love
Cypress Point Club - The Best Setting in America that has a top Architectural Gem of a Golf Course
Aronimink GC - Sublime combination of difficulty without extreme penality
Augusta National - It is Augusta - I have to Include it, but I don't want to - no respect for the spirit of Golf - but Home of The Masters®
Chicago GC - Seth Raynor improved on Charles Blair Macdonald - America's Best Neighborhood Club
Crystal Downs - Green Complexes bordering on the ridiculous with 2 or 4 of America's Greatest Holes
Fishers Island - Incomparable Setting, great concentration of quality and you get a boat ride
Garden City GC - One of America's Time Capsules - The Ultimate Men Only Club
Kittansett Club - A single amateur designer improving on a master in perhaps America's most peaceful setting
Lehigh CC - The Finest Routing on a severe property. Also America's most under-appreciated club by its Membership.
Maidstone Club - Old Time Style in a Majestic Club
Merion GC East - The definitive routing on a small plot
Myopia Hunt Club - 19th Century American Golf
Oakmont - Balls to The Wall - You are a dead man if you try to fake it here
Pasatiempo - Literally - Passing the Time - Good enough for MacKenzie's Home
Pebble Beach - It's Pebble Beach - I have to include it - It could have had a better routing
Pinehurst #2 - Donald Ross spent much of his life here
Plainfield CC - Donald Ross's Best Combination of Routing, Greensites and a Modern Club with a Superb Restoration
Prairie Dunes CC - Nine from Perry and nine from J. Press
San Francisco GC - Tillinghast in The Fog
Sankaty Head Golf Club - The closest to Links in feel for all 18 holes to be found in America
Seminole Golf Club - The Course and The Seasonal Club you want Forever
Valley Club of Montecito - The Clubhouse you want forever in the town and climate you want to live forever
2010 Golfweek’s Best Classic Courses The Rest
21. Los Angeles CC North
22. Olympic Club Lake
23. Riviera Country Club
24. Camargo Club
25. Southern Hills Country Club
26. Shoreacres
27. Wannamoisett Country Club
28. Somerset Hills Country Club
29. Plainfield Country Club
30. Pasatiempo
31. Maidstone Club
32. Myopia Hunt Club
33. Winged Foot Golf Club East
34. Oak Hill Country Club East
35. Peachtree Golf Club
36. Baltusrol Golf Club Lower
37. Inverness Club
38. Quaker Ridge
39. Yeamans Hall Club
40. Baltimore Country Club East
41. Valley Club of Montecito
42. Olympia Fields CC North
43. Piping Rock Club
44. Milwaukee Country Club
45. Newport Country Club
46. Salem Country Club
47. The Course at Yale
48. Scioto Country Club
49. Homestead Resort Cascades
50. Colonial Country Club
51. Interlachen Country Club
52. Holston Hills Country Club
53. East Lake Golf Club
54. California Golf Club
55. Kittansett Club
56. Aronimink Golf Club
57. Lawsonia Golf Club
58. Cherry Hills Country Club
59. Baltusrol Golf Club (Upper)
60. White Bear Yacht Club
61. Fenway Golf Club
62. Medinah Country Club # 3)
63. Essex County Club
64. NCR Country Club South
65. Lancaster Country Club
66. Franklin Hills Country Club
67. Mountain Lake
68. Congressional CC - Blue
69. Pine Needles Country Club
70. Minikahda Club
71. Ekwanok Country Club
72. Huntingdon Valley Country Club
73. Whippoorwill Country Club
74. Brookside Country
75. St. Louis Country Club
76. Rolling Green Golf Course
77. Indianwood Country Club Old
78. Bel-Air Country Club
79. Canterbury Golf Club
80. Taconic Golf Club
81. Lehigh Country Club
82. Country Club of Fairfield
83. Creek Club
84. Fox Chapel Golf Club
85. Ridgewood Country Club E&W
86. Philadelphia CC
87. Northland Country Club
88. Eastward Ho!
89. Sankaty Head Golf Club
90. Country Club of Buffalo
91. Old Town Club
92. Skokie Country Club
93. Westchester Country Club
94. Laurel Valley Country Club
95. Moraine Country Club
96. Point O’Woods G&CC
97. Palmetto Club
98. Hollywood Golf Club
99. Beverly Country Club
100. Dunes Golf & Beach Club
2010 Golfweek’s Top 100 Course Lists
2010 Golfweek’s Best Modern Courses Top 40
1. Sand Hills Golf Club
2. Pacific Dunes
3. Whistling Straits Straits
4. Bandon Dunes
5. Ballyneal
6. Sebonack Golf Club
7. The Golf Club
8. Pete Dye Golf Club
9. Friar’s Head
10. Shadow Creek Golf Club
11. Muirfield Village Golf Club
12. Old Sandwich Golf Club
13. Kinloch Golf Club
14. Spyglass Hill Golf Club
15. Honors Club
16. TPC Sawgrass
17. Ocean Course at Kiawah
18. Wade Hampton Club
19. Kingsley Club
20. Chambers Bay Golf
21. Calusa Pines Golf Club
22. Colorado Golf Club
23. Bayonne Golf Club
24. Dunes Club
25. Dallas National Golf Club
26. Wild Horse Golf Club
27. Mayacama Golf Club
28. Bandon Trails
29. Castle Pines Golf Club
30. World Woods GC Pine Barrens
31. Harbour Town Golf Club
32. Desert Forest Golf Club
33. Monterey Peninsula CC Shore
34. Double Eagle Golf Club
35. Galloway National Golf Club
36. Boston Golf Club
37. Arcadia Bluffs
38. Gozzer Ranch
39. Blackwolf Run River
40. Pronghorn – Fazio
The next 60
41. Fallen Oak Golf Club
42. Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club
43. Black Diamond Ranch Quarry
44. The Club at Cuscowilla
45. Whispering Pines Golf Club
46. Sutton Bay Club
47. The Preserve
48. Karsten Creek Golf Club
49. The Club at Black Rock
50. Quail Hollow Club
51. Trump National Golf
52. Forest Highlands GC Canyon
53. Long Cove Club
54. Wolf Run
55. The Rim
56. Butler National Golf Club
57. Sea Island GC Seaside
58. Lahontan Golf Club
59. Atlantic Golf Club
60. The Concession
61. Olde Farm Golf Club
62. Kapalua GC Plantation
63. Lost Dunes Golf Club
64. Cog Hill GC No. 4
65. Eugene Country Club
66. Cassique
67. Victoria National Golf Club
68. Black Sheep Golf Club
69. Shoal Creek Golf Course
70. Sanctuary
71. Hidden Creek Golf
72. Briggs Ranch Golf Club
73. Powder Horn GC Mountain/Stag
74. Hazeltine National Golf Club
75. We-Ko-Pa GC Saguaro
76. Estancia
77. Black Mesa Golf Club
78. Crooked Stick Golf Club
79. Greywalls at Marquette GC
80. Golf Club at Ravenna
81. Jupiter Hills Club Hills
82. Pumpkin Ridge GC Witch Hollow
83. Ocean Forest Golf Club
84. Southern Highlands GC
85. The Stone Canyon Club
86. Whisper Rock GC (Upper)
87. Olde Stone
88. Valhalla Golf Club
89. Robert Trent Jones Golf Club
90. Forest Dunes Golf Club
91. Oak Tree National Golf Club
92. Princeville GC Prince
93. Harvester Golf Club
94. Frederica Golf Club
95. Secession Golf Club
96. Quintero G&CC
97. Links of North Dakota
98. Caledonia Golf & Fish Club
99. Forest Creek GC (North)
100. Windsong Farms Golf