Searching for a golf course to play? Do this genius search-and-booking instrument

In the event you’re a golfer, you seemingly have a deal with on the programs in your city, county and perhaps even your state — the very best designs, the very best values, the shortest commutes from your property. However how nicely have you learnt {the golfing} panorama past your yard? With roughly 16,000 programs within the U.S. even probably the most avid golfers want where-to-play steerage, and now GOLF.com, in partnership with Open Hyperlinks, supplies simply such a useful resource.

It’s referred to as Course Finder, and it delivers precisely what the names guarantees: a complete and user-friendly database of nearly each golf course in America, plus many extra designs internationally, all searchable not solely by title, metropolis and zip code but in addition by entry kind (public, personal, muni, and so on.); model (regulation, par-3, government, and so on.); and payment vary (from $ to $$$$). A fan of the work of, say, Gil Hanse, Tom Doak or Perry Maxwell? There’s even a filter by which you’ll be able to search programs by their designers.

However wait, there’s extra! 

Course Finder’s filtering choices additionally embrace GOLF’s Prime 100 Course rankings (5 rankings in all), plus 5 different “better of” lists, starting from Prime Munis to Prime Par-3 Programs. You can also drill all the way down to our course raters’ nominations for the very best programs in each state. For added comfort, search outcomes are plotted on a map so you may simply see programs’ places relative to your search space. 

Wish to study extra a couple of particular design? Each course has a profile web page that features a course description, par and yardage, grass sorts, and even whether or not the course is walkable and has apply amenities. For a lot of public programs, you even have the power to e book tee occasions instantly from the profile pages. 

Right here’s a sensible instance of how Course Finder works: 

Let’s say you’re heading to San Francisco for a piece journey and have some free time to sneak in a spherical. First issues first, you need to discover the best-of-the-best public programs within the space. Underneath the “Prime 100” menu, merely click on “Prime Public North America,” and also you’ll see a map of the U.S. populate with 100 programs. Zoom in on San Francisco and also you’ll see the three greatest public programs within the space, in response to our raters: Pebble Seaside, Spyglass Hill and Pasatiempo. To widen your seek for high designs, toggle off the Prime 100 filter and search “California” below the “Greatest in State” menu, and also you’ll discover a bounty of extra suggestions from our raters.  

On a funds? Underneath the “Max Charge” menu, choose the “$$” possibility. That search will return all the programs within the space that received’t pressure your pockets, together with such wonderful choices at TPC Harding Park and the par-3 course at Golden Gate Park. Perhaps, as you browse the programs dotted on the map, you’ll really feel impressed to shoot two hours down the coast to play the charming seaside muni, Pacific Grove. 

Each golfers’ preferences and necessities are completely different, which is the fantastic thing about Course Finder: It would information you to the very best programs for you. 

Comfortable looking!

Begin your search right here.

Alan Bastable

Golf.com Editor

As GOLF.com’s government editor, Bastable is accountable for the editorial path and voice of one of many recreation’s most revered and extremely trafficked information and repair websites. He wears many hats — modifying, writing, ideating, growing, daydreaming of someday breaking 80 — and feels privileged to work with such an insanely gifted and hardworking group of writers, editors and producers. Earlier than grabbing the reins at GOLF.com, he was the options editor at GOLF Journal. A graduate of the College of Richmond and the Columbia Faculty of Journalism, he lives in New Jersey along with his spouse and foursome of youngsters.