The Senator course on the RTJ Golf Path at Capitol Hill.
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GOLF’s newest assortment of programs that belong in your must-play listing has arrived.
On Wednesday, we printed our first-ever listing of America’s greatest golf programs for $100 or much less, which doesn’t embrace bucket-list gems like Whistling Straits and Bandon Dunes however does boast dozens of satisfying and reasonably priced spots extra accessible to the bigger inhabitants of golfers. To qualify for the listing, programs wanted to be (1) accessible to the general public, (2) the type of golf expertise you’d suggest to a buddy and (3) provide peak-season weekend strolling charges that don’t exceed $100.
You may take a look at the complete listing right here, however for a fast rundown of what you need to learn about it, scroll beneath.
1. Legendary architect Donald Ross has essentially the most course-design credit on the listing with 10, amongst them George Wright, Jeffersonville and Triggs Memorial. The opposite architects who appeared essentially the most had been Robert Trent Jones Sr. (9 programs), A.W. Tillinghast (5 programs), Pete Dye (5 programs) and Robert Trent Jones Jr. (4 programs).
2. The cutoff for this listing was $100, so any course that got here in on that quantity is clearly the highest-priced among the many group. Six match that description, and 4 of them are on the uber-popular RTJ Golf Path in Alabama: Capitol Hill (Senator), Highland Oaks (Highlands/Magnolia nines) and each the Lake 18 and Hyperlinks 18 at Grand Nationwide. The opposite two $100 programs are Bethpage Crimson in Farmingdale, N.Y., and Wailua in Lihue, Hawaii.
3. There are additionally eight programs on the listing that may be performed for underneath $40. The least costly are Buffalo Dunes in Backyard Metropolis, Kansas, and Fort Myers County Membership in Fort Myers, Fla., each of which you’ll be able to play for simply $30 peak strolling fee. The opposite six are Palatka ($34, Palatka, Fla.), Aiken ($35, Aiken, S.C.), Pines Crossing ($35, Auburn, Ala.), Cedar Crest ($35, Dallas, Texas), Wolf River Golf Park ($37, Bear Lake, Mich.) and Kearney Hill ($38, Lexington, Ky.).
4. Fast plug: In case you are searching for an reasonably priced golf course close to you, go to our new Course Finder device and seek for all of the choices in your space. You too can filter by issues like worth and course sort.
5. Wild Horse Golf Membership in Gothenburg, Neb., made the listing, which needs to be no shock. It’s additionally one of many few (and the highest-ranked, at forty ninth) on GOLF’s newest Prime 100 Programs You Can Play rating.
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6. Whereas a couple of of those programs hosted majors a long time in the past, one was lately used for the marquee newbie occasion of 2024. Chaska City Course in Chaska, Minn., was the stroke-play co-host (together with Hazeltine Nationwide) for the 2024 U.S. Newbie final month.
7. It’s possible you’ll or might not know, however you helped create this listing. To kind it, we sourced suggestions from GOLF raters, editors, trade consultants and, sure, even you.
8. Roughly 40 p.c of the programs on this listing are owned by municipalities, and plenty of seem on our rating of the 30 greatest municipal golf programs in America that we printed three years in the past. George Wright in Hyde Park, Mass., was a straightforward decide for this latest listing, and it was additionally third on that aforementioned top-30 muni rating.
9. California has essentially the most programs represented with seven, and Alabama and North Carolina have six every. Michigan, Florida and New York all have 5 apiece. Thirty-five states had been represented.
