10 finest golf holes for PGA Tour 2025 season, ranked

With the 2025 PGA Tour season kicking off at The Sentry in Maui this week, it’s time to take a look at the ten finest holes PGA Tour professionals will play. This record consists of holes at Oakmont Nation Membership and Royal Portrush, which can host the U.S. Open and The Open, respectively.

With out additional ado, right here is our record:

10. 18th Gap — Muirfield Village

Par 4 — 484 Yards

Top-of-the-line closing holes in all of golf, the 18th at Muirfield Village not often yields any birdies, making par a stable rating. Discovering the green is crucial, with water down the left aspect and deep bunkers on the proper. Then, the inexperienced sits perched above the green, with a pure amphitheater surrounding the placing floor. However better of all, a handshake with the Golden Bear awaits after ending your spherical at The Memorial.

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9. third Gap — Oakmont Nation Membership

Par 4 — 467 Yards

When the identify “Oakmont Nation Membership” involves thoughts, what’s the first thought that involves your head? For me — together with many different golfers — the “Church Pews” bunker is what I consider first.

This bunker, which sits between the third and 4th fairways, is 100 yards lengthy and almost 40 yards extensive. It options 12 separate grassy knolls, which supplies the entice its well-known identify.

On this third gap, the Church Pews are to the left of the green, whereas 5 extra traps are embedded right into a hill to the proper of the brief grass, placing a premium on driving accuracy. The inexperienced sits on a knoll, as a false entrance will repel any shot brief. Extra bother lies past the inexperienced, as a set space sits under the floor. The inexperienced begins to slope away from you in its again third, leaving many flushed pictures lengthy.

It’s an excellent golf gap and some of the underrated on the earth.

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8. sixteenth Gap — Royal Portrush (Dunluce)

Par 3 — 246 Yards

This beast of a par-3 will play as one of many hardest all 12 months, however it is usually one of many best. It allowed solely 24 birdies through the 2019 Open Championship, a testomony to how tough this gap can play, particularly in difficult situations. No marvel it was the third hardest gap that week.

As for the surroundings, a large ravine sits between the tee field and the inexperienced, extending down the outlet’s proper aspect. Unimaginable vistas of the whole course might be seen from right here, too, making this probably the greatest par-3s in all of golf.

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7. sixteenth Gap — TPC Scottsdale (Stadium)

Par 3 — 163 Yards

The opening itself is nothing particular, however the ambiance surrounding it definitely is. The WM Phoenix Open has grow to be fairly the celebration whereas being the most-visited occasion 12 months in and 12 months out.

Why?

It’s the stadium that surrounds the sixteenth gap. Followers get there on the break of day, hoping to safe a seat to cheer on — or heckle — the gamers as they make their approach via. The sixteenth has produced loads of unbelievable moments as nicely, with none extra particular than what occurred in 2019, when Gary Woodland and Amy Bockerstette went viral with Bockerstette’s “I Acquired This” putt.

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6. 18th Gap — Riviera Nation Membership

Par 4 — 475 Yards

Just like the 18th gap at Muirfield Village, the closing gap at Riviera Nation Membership is without doubt one of the finest in golf.

The uphill tee shot is blind, making the participant uncomfortable off the tee. However discovering the green is crucial for this difficult finisher. The inexperienced then options a rare pure amphitheater, an ideal place to look at golf, because the well-known clubhouse sits above.

Riviera can also be the favourite course of many high PGA Tour professionals, so quite a few gamers would agree that the 18th must be included on this record. However even when that weren’t the case, we’d be silly to not embody this unbelievable gap.

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5. Ultimate 3 Holes — TPC Sawgrass (Stadium)

sixteenth Gap — Par 5 — 523 Yards

seventeenth Gap — Par 3 — 137 Yards

18th Gap — Par 4 — 462 Yards

The island inexperienced on the seventeenth is maybe probably the most well-known golf gap on the planet. Nonetheless, as evidenced by final 12 months’s Gamers Championship end, the seventeenth is barely a bit of the ultimate puzzle.

The sixteenth gives loads of leisure and is a superb, brief par-5 with water surrounding the inexperienced.

The 18th is a terrific ending gap and barely produces birdies. It’s a stern problem that usually leaves many gamers swearing at architect Pete Dye as they conclude their spherical.

So, as nice because the seventeenth gap is, I couldn’t assist but in addition embody the sixteenth and 18th holes, which finally makes TPC Sawgrass and The Gamers so particular 12 months in and 12 months out.

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4. seventh Gap — Pebble Seaside

Par 3 — 106 Yards

What’s the finest par-3 on the earth? The brief seventh at Pebble Seaside definitely has a case to be made for that distinction. This little gap, which sits on the tip of the peninsula and extends into Stillwater Cove, is perhaps probably the most lovely spot in golf. The Pacific Ocean lies throughout, with solely a flip-wedge wanted between you and the outlet. Simpler stated than achieved, nonetheless, because the wind can wreak havoc on a spherical relatively shortly right here.

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3. 18th Gap — Oakmont

Par 4 — 505 Yards

This monstrous par-4 is a real problem that doesn’t usually enable sub-par scores. But, Dustin Johnson did simply that on the 2016 U.S. Open, as he capped off his first main victory in grand trend by birdieing this gap.

You must discover the green right here, or else a bogey or worse shortly comes into play. That’s not a straightforward accomplishment, both, as bunkers sit on both aspect of the brief grass. The inexperienced is relatively tough, too, however so is each inexperienced at Oakmont, which is understood to have among the quickest placing surfaces on the earth.

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2. Amen Nook — Augusta Nationwide

eleventh Gap — Par 4 — 520 Yards

twelfth Gap — Par 3 — 155 Yards

thirteenth Gap — Par 5 — 545 Yards

Do I have to say something about probably the most revered place at Augusta Nationwide, not to mention the whole sport? I couldn’t choose certainly one of these three holes over the opposite, so I had no alternative however to incorporate all of them. Every of those holes is magnificent for a lot of causes, however all of them share a standard similarity: they reside in some of the lovely locations on the earth.

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1. fifth Gap — Royal Portrush (Dunluce)

Par 4 — 374 Yards

After the picturesque ninth gap at Royal County Down, I’d argue that the fifth gap on the Dunluce Course at Royal Portrush is the best par-4 on the earth. This downhill, dogleg proper not solely affords unbelievable aesthetics of the North Atlantic, nevertheless it additionally presents loads of alternative.

It’s not a difficult gap per se, because it yielded 111 birdies throughout The 2019 Open Championship. The fifth was simply certainly one of three holes to play beneath par throughout all 4 rounds that week too. But, it does present loads of leisure. This undulating inexperienced sits proper earlier than a steep drop-off that descends onto White Rocks Seaside, which performed as Out-of-Bounds six years in the past. It’s an actual increase or bust.

However the pure magnificence surrounding this unbelievable gap makes it so iconic. Oh, and the view of the Dunluce Fortress, of which the course is called, solely provides to the luster and reminds you that, sure, you might be on the Emerald Isle, which is synonymous with a slice of heaven.

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Honorable Mentions:

18th Gap — Pebble Seaside

18th Gap — Augusta Nationwide

sixteenth Gap — Augusta Nationwide

tenth Gap — Riviera

18th Gap — Kapalua (Plantation)

sixteenth Gap — Waialae Nation Membership

seventeenth Gap — TPC Scottsdale

18th Gap — Bay Hill

eighth Gap — East Lake

twelfth Gap — Muirfield Village

Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By. Observe him on X @jack_milko.