‘I keep going back to Crooked Stick and wondering how I ever came up with it so early in the game. I’m absolutely amazed I ever put it together.’ Pete DyeA modern golfing heavyweight, Pete Dye was little more than a part-time architect in 1963 when he embark
Part of a greater residential development on the shores of a Georgian lake, the Golf Club at Cuscowilla layout is a typically playable, walkable and enjoyable creation from America’s premier modern design firm. Distinctive for its rugged bunker shapes and heavy red sand, the opening nine sw
Opening in 2002, the Dallas National Golf Club is a distinctive modern facility built owithin an old rock quarryn rocky ground less than ten miles from downtown Dallas. The steep and heavily wooded property measures almost 400 acres but for years it had sat dormant because zoning issues prevented
Set in the scenic foothills of the Lower Sonoran Desert, the Desert Forest Golf Club was founded by ambitious real estate entrepreneurs as part of their plans to transform an isolated rural wasteland into a thriving residential hamlet. The course is situated within the town of Carefree, north of
Located in the mountains of Banner Elk, Diamond Creek is a high-end golf course that required a great deal of explosive and earthmoving work to create. Budget was clearly not an issue here, and Tom Fazio was the ideal choice of designer for such an inhospitable yet attractive property, Fazio shap
Double Eagle is a small, private club developed by golfing enthusiast John H. McConnell, the founder of a multi-billion dollar steel company established back in the 1950s near the Ohio capital of Columbus. McConnell built his club a little north of the city, on farming grounds he had initially pu
Built on only 126 acres in the affluent seaside hamlet of East Hampton, the East Hampton Golf Club is a beautifully intimate and intricate challenge created by design partners Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. The course starts within an open pasture, the first seven holes tumbling gently across softl
Ekwanok was one of the first quality courses in the United States, the club founded in 1899 and the course first open for play the next year, its holes designed by John Dunn and amateur legend Walter Travis. In subsequent decades the layout has endured much revision, bunker additions and back tee
Despite its small-town setting, the 2006 opening of Wisconsin’s Erin Hills golf course was one of the most eagerly anticipated of recent years. This was not due to the event being carried out with any great fanfare, but rather because the unopened layout had already been awarded a National
The oldest country club in New Jersey, the Essex County Country Club has a long and glorious history dating back its inception in 1887 as a club for the ‘encouragement of athletic exercises and sports.’ Since that time the membership roll has included notable Americans such as Colo
