A short drive from Pine Valley, but without the big reputation, the Hidden Creek Golf Club is yet another private club gem from Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, the course occupying sandy pine-covered scrubland without dramatic elevation variances but enough subtle undulations for good golf. Predicta

One of the best-preserved Donald Ross layouts in America, the Holston Hills Country Club was formed in 1927, and built on a rolling property east of Knoxville, Tennessee. Renowned for its deep grass-faced bunkers and steep greens, the course is mostly set beneath the site’s major ridge and

‘From my first day of walking the land, I felt a dramatic and spectacular golf course would evolve.’ Tom FazioLocated high within the rocky hills of northern Westchester County, the Hudson National Golf Club occupies an historic tract of land in Croton-on-Hudson,

Built within a steep valley, Huntingdon Valley is a 27-hole facility design by William Flynn in 1928 for an established club that moved to its current home when his holes first opened. With a strong female membership, the idea originally was for there to be two championship tests here, nine gener

One of America’s most historic golf clubs, the Interlachen Country Club had humble beginnings when founded on rolling farmland in Minneapolis’s south-west during 1909. Members originally golfed on a Willie Watson course, which was built in 1911 and survived until the 1919 arrival of S

‘Inverness is a fine championship layout’ Donald RossThe Inverness Club was formed in 1903, when a number of Toledo’s prominent businessman financed the purchase of 80 acres of farmland a few miles west of the city. They began by golfing on a nine-hole cours

Half an hour north of Palm Beach, the Jupiter Hills Club was established in 1969 following a complicated three-way deal that involved its founding members purchasing land for the State of Florida in exchange for a section of scrubland at the southern end of the Jonathan Dickinson State Park. One

‘Our design didn’t really have to create new holes as much as take the existing land and natural characteristics and adapt them to make for the most exciting, challenging play possible. Nature gave us a tremendous head start.’ Ben CrenshawA luxury resort on

Made famous as host of the 1991 Ryder Cup, the Ocean Course at the Kiawah Island Golf Resort was designed by Pete Dye, who overcame extraordinary obstacles to complete his masterpiece in time for the event. Occupying a narrow two-and-a-half mile slice of land between saltwater marshes and the Atl

Situated among the tranquil pine-covered hills of central Virginia, the Kinloch Golf Club is an exclusive high-end facility that was developed, in part, by local amateur legend Marvin ‘Vinny’ Giles. Opening in 2001, the club is located around 20 miles north-west of Richmond, on a 270-