Links StyleBallybunion — Old Course
Ireland · Southwest & Northern Ireland
Cliffside dunes golf that Tom Watson calls the best in the world.
Championship LevelBest for: Bucket List
€250 – €330greens fee
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Links StyleBandon Dunes
Bandon Dunes · Oregon, USA
The original. Gorse, dunes and the Pacific on your shoulder.
ChallengingBest for: Bucket List
$275 – $375greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleBandon Preserve
Bandon Dunes · Oregon, USA
13-hole par-3 course with ocean views and heavy side action.
EasyBest for: Bucket List
$130greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleBandon Trails
Bandon Dunes · Oregon, USA
The inland one — dunes, forest and meadow in a single walking loop.
ChallengingBest for: Bucket List
$275 – $375greens fee
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ResortBarefoot Resort — Dye Club
Myrtle Beach · South Carolina, USA
The toughest of the four Barefoot layouts.
ChallengingBest for: Resort Golf
$110 – $190greens fee
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ResortBlackwolf Run — Meadow Valleys
Kohler · Wisconsin, USA
The most forgiving of the four and a great opener.
ModerateBest for: Resort Golf
$195 – $265greens fee
Official website View CourseParklandBlackwolf Run — River
Kohler · Wisconsin, USA
Pete Dye river golf, tight and dramatic.
ChallengingBest for: Resort Golf
$285 – $395greens fee
Official website View CoursePublicCaledonia Golf & Fish Club
Myrtle Beach · South Carolina, USA
Live oaks and low-country charm, the local favorite.
ModerateBest for: Weekend Getaway
$120 – $195greens fee
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Links StyleCarnoustie Championship
Scotland · Fife & East Lothian
The hardest test in the Open rota, especially into the wind.
Championship LevelBest for: Bucket List
£275greens fee
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Myrtle Beach · South Carolina, USA
Robert Trent Jones classic with the famous Waterloo 13th.
ChallengingBest for: Weekend Getaway
$140 – $220greens fee
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PublicErin Hills
Wisconsin Golf Trail · Wisconsin, USA
2017 U.S. Open host — walking only, glacial terrain.
Championship LevelBest for: Bucket List
$295 – $395greens fee
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Desert GolfGrayhawk — Raptor
Scottsdale · Arizona, USA
Tom Fazio desert layout that hosts college golf's biggest week.
ChallengingBest for: Bachelor Trip
$195 – $330greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleKingsbarns
Scotland · Fife & East Lothian
Modern cliffside links a short drive from St Andrews.
ChallengingBest for: Bucket List
£295greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleLahinch
Ireland · Southwest & Northern Ireland
Quirky, dune-framed and right in the middle of town.
ChallengingBest for: Bucket List
€200 – €275greens fee
Official website View CoursePublicLawsonia Links
Wisconsin Golf Trail · Wisconsin, USA
1930 Langford & Moreau design with wild raised greens.
ModerateBest for: Golf Road Trip
$85 – $130greens fee
Official website View CourseResortMammoth Dunes
Wisconsin Golf Trail · Wisconsin, USA
Huge, generous fairways and the most fun round on property.
ModerateBest for: Resort Golf
$185 – $265greens fee
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ResortMid Pines
Pinehurst · North Carolina, USA
A restored Ross gem that walks in under three hours and never repeats itself.
ModerateBest for: Resort Golf
$135 – $210greens fee
Official website View CoursePrivateMuirfield
Scotland · Fife & East Lothian
Two concentric loops in East Lothian, and lunch in the clubhouse is the tradition.
Championship LevelBest for: Bucket List
£350greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleNorth Berwick — West Links
Scotland · Fife & East Lothian
The most fun round in Scotland: walls, blind shots, Redan.
ModerateBest for: Bucket List
£165 – £225greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleOld Head of Kinsale
Ireland · Southwest & Northern Ireland
A headland 300 feet above the Atlantic — pure spectacle.
ModerateBest for: Bucket List
€350 – €450greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleOld Macdonald
Bandon Dunes · Oregon, USA
Template holes on the biggest, wildest greens at the resort.
ChallengingBest for: Bucket List
$275 – $375greens fee
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Bandon Dunes · Oregon, USA
Tom Doak's cliffside masterpiece — routinely ranked #1 in the U.S. for public golf.
Championship LevelBest for: Bucket List
$295 – $395greens fee
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ResortPebble Beach Golf Links
Pebble Beach · California, USA
Holes 6 through 10 and 18 are the most famous stretch in golf.
Championship LevelBest for: Resort Golf
$675 – $725greens fee
Official website View CourseResortPine Needles
Pinehurst · North Carolina, USA
Four-time U.S. Women's Open host across the road from Mid Pines.
ChallengingBest for: Resort Golf
$165 – $250greens fee
Official website View CourseResortPinehurst No. 2
Pinehurst · North Carolina, USA
Ross's masterpiece with turtleback greens that punish anything long or lazy.
Championship LevelBest for: Resort Golf
$450 – $600greens fee
Official website View CourseResortPinehurst No. 4
Pinehurst · North Carolina, USA
Gil Hanse's sandy, jagged rebuild — the most photogenic round on property.
ChallengingBest for: Resort Golf
$275 – $375greens fee
Official website View CourseResortPinehurst No. 8
Pinehurst · North Carolina, USA
The Centennial course, routed through wetlands and pines away from the village.
ModerateBest for: Resort Golf
$185 – $265greens fee
Official website View CoursePublicPoppy Hills
Pebble Beach · California, USA
Excellent value inland round, five minutes from the resort.
ModerateBest for: Bucket List
$250 – $310greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StylePortmarnock
Ireland · Southwest & Northern Ireland
Flat-out fair championship links 20 minutes from Dublin airport.
ChallengingBest for: Bucket List
€200 – €280greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleRoyal County Down
Ireland · Southwest & Northern Ireland
Mourne Mountains behind, bearded bunkers ahead — often ranked #1 in the world.
Championship LevelBest for: Bucket List
£250 – £320greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleRoyal Dornoch
Scotland · Fife & East Lothian
Worth the drive north — raised greens and the purest links turf in Scotland.
Championship LevelBest for: Bucket List
£250 – £320greens fee
Official website View CourseResortSand Valley
Wisconsin Golf Trail · Wisconsin, USA
Coore & Crenshaw sand barrens in central Wisconsin.
ModerateBest for: Resort Golf
$185 – $265greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleSheep Ranch
Bandon Dunes · Oregon, USA
Nine greens on the cliff edge and no bunkers anywhere on the property.
ModerateBest for: Bucket List
$275 – $375greens fee
Official website View CourseResortSpyglass Hill
Pebble Beach · California, USA
Five dune holes then a hard turn into the Del Monte forest.
Championship LevelBest for: Resort Golf
$450 – $495greens fee
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ResortStreamsong Black
Streamsong · Florida, USA
Gil Hanse's enormous scale — wide fairways, massive greens.
Championship LevelBest for: Resort Golf
$185 – $315greens fee
Official website View CourseResortStreamsong Blue
Streamsong · Florida, USA
Tom Doak's bolder, more exposed routing over the same dunes.
ChallengingBest for: Resort Golf
$195 – $325greens fee
Official website View CourseResortStreamsong Red
Streamsong · Florida, USA
Coore & Crenshaw sand dunes with the resort's best green complexes.
ChallengingBest for: Resort Golf
$195 – $325greens fee
Official website View CourseDesert GolfThe Boulders — South
Scottsdale · Arizona, USA
Granite outcroppings and elevation changes north of town.
ModerateBest for: Bachelor Trip
$185 – $295greens fee
Official website View CoursePublicThe Cradle
Pinehurst · North Carolina, USA
A 9-hole short course with music, beers and the best hour of the trip.
EasyBest for: Bucket List
$65greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleThe Links at Spanish Bay
Pebble Beach · California, USA
Windy oceanfront links closed out by a bagpiper at sunset.
ChallengingBest for: Bucket List
$340 – $395greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleThe Old Course, St Andrews
Scotland · Fife & East Lothian
Shared fairways, the Swilcan Bridge and 600 years of history.
Championship LevelBest for: Bucket List
£320greens fee
Official website View CoursePublicTidewater Golf Club
Myrtle Beach · South Carolina, USA
Marsh views on the back nine, the prettiest holes in town.
ChallengingBest for: Weekend Getaway
$105 – $175greens fee
Official website View CoursePublicTobacco Road
Pinehurst · North Carolina, USA
Mike Strantz's wild, blind-shot sandhills course — nothing else looks like it.
ChallengingBest for: Bucket List
$150 – $225greens fee
Official website View CoursePublicTPC Scottsdale — Stadium
Scottsdale · Arizona, USA
Home of the WM Phoenix Open and the famous stadium 16th.
Championship LevelBest for: Bucket List
$300 – $525greens fee
Official website View CourseResortTroon North — Monument
Scottsdale · Arizona, USA
Boulder-strewn fairways under Pinnacle Peak.
ChallengingBest for: Resort Golf
$215 – $350greens fee
Official website View CoursePublicTrue Blue Plantation
Myrtle Beach · South Carolina, USA
Wide sandy waste areas and huge greens next door to Caledonia.
ModerateBest for: Weekend Getaway
$95 – $165greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleWaterville
Ireland · Southwest & Northern Ireland
Remote Ring of Kerry links with a spectacular back nine.
ChallengingBest for: Bucket List
€215 – €290greens fee
Official website View CourseDesert GolfWe-Ko-Pa — Saguaro
Scottsdale · Arizona, USA
Pure desert golf with zero housing in sight.
ModerateBest for: Bachelor Trip
$175 – $285greens fee
Official website View CourseResortWhistling Straits — Irish
Kohler · Wisconsin, USA
Inland sibling with dunes, streams and far fewer nerves.
ModerateBest for: Resort Golf
$225 – $310greens fee
Official website View CourseLinks StyleWhistling Straits — Straits
Kohler · Wisconsin, USA
1,000 bunkers along two miles of Lake Michigan shoreline.
Championship LevelBest for: Bucket List
$450 – $610greens fee
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