The Atlanta Athletic Club is one of the most prestigious sporting institutions of the American South, having been established in 1898 by a group of local businessmen looking for a place to enjoy recreational activities with their associates. From a downtown Atlanta base the club expanded into

In some ways the Atlantic Golf Club kick-started the modern golf boom on the eastern side of New York’s Long Island, Rees Jones’s early 1990s creation the first course of note on the island for several decades and followed by a number of subsequent stunners.What Jones init

Established in 1927 and designed by course architect Willie Watson, who created such American classics as the Olympic Club, Harding Park and Olympia Fields, the Belvedere Golf Club is located in Northern Michigan and somewhat of a forgotten treasure in this part of the world. Aside from trees

A 1994 design from the team of Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry, Blackthorn is an affordable public access golf facility in the town of South Bend, Indiana, close to the University of Notre Dame. All told there are 19 holes here, with a 266-yard betting hole, known as the Blarney Hole, in pla

The Canyata Golf Club was developed by Gerald Forsythe on farmland owned by his family, originally he planned a three-hole course on the site in central Illinois but this soon grew to an eighteen hole private members course. The layout itself was design by Michael Benkusky, who previously worked

Founded as a national business club outside Baltimore, Caves Valley is an attractively maintained, exclusive modern facility that was designed by architect Tom Fazio but that sadly offers little in the way of new or challenging golf to the experienced player.The front nine here is mos

Chevy Chase is a charming old country club close to downtown Washington DC, its golf course built on a lovely, rolling property in peaceful surrounds and with an unhurried atmosphere. Despite not scaling great heights architecturally, there are lots of subtle bending holes here that work rather w

Opening for play in 2010, the Chicago Highlands golf course was designed by architect Arthur Hills on a 270-acre former landfill site with impressive views across the Chicago skyline.

Given the virgin terrain here when Hills and his team started work on the project, there naturally nee