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Golfweek’s best ranks golf courses in various categories around the globe, from the most modern to the top courses in each state. Our most popular ranking is the top 200 U.S. resort courses.
The layouts are all great for a getaway. There are more than 30 resorts with two courses, which makes it easy to compare the layouts after a long day of golf.
If you want to know more, read on. Ten resorts have three or more courses that appear on Golfweek’s Best ranking for top resorts across the U.S. These destinations are sure to keep golfers entertained and swinging all day.
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Six of these resorts boast three courses that are ranked in the top 200. These are Big Cedar Lodge, Firestone Country Club, Pebble Beach Resorts, Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Sea Pines, Georgia, and Streamsong, Florida.
Two of them are not resorts. Firestone is the first, and it is mostly a private club. Firestone does offer stay-and play packages that are open to the general public. This qualifies Firestone as a resort according to Golfweek’s best standards, which considers any course offering tee-times to the public to be public access, even if it is a mostly private facility.
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail is another option, offering golf in 11 locations around the state. We included the Trail because all facilities are under one roof and allow you to move from one location to another relatively easily.
The resorts that have four courses in the top 200 are rarefied air. Destination Kohler (two clubs with two courses each, Whistling Straits and Blackwolf Run, are both part of the resort) in Wisconsin and Reynolds Lake Oconee, a resort and residential area in Georgia.
Five courses are among the 200 best in the U.S. at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, in Oregon, and Pinehurst Resort, in North Carolina. They are both bucket-list destinations for every golfer, and they should be visited at least once. The golf courses are all that most players could ever desire in one trip. Playing one round at each course would take many days and is never enough.
Resorts that have three or more courses ranked in the top 100 have developed their resorts in a variety of ways. These resorts were founded more than 100 years ago, and they have been adding courses over the decades. They often offer courses designed by a variety of architects and styles. Some resorts have several courses designed by the same designer. They stick with architects that they feel work best.
You can’t go far wrong with any of the destinations listed below. Each resort’s top 200 courses are listed, along with the average rating they received on a 1-10 scale, as determined by Golfweek’s Best raters, their designers, when they were opened, and their ranking on different Golfweek’s Best lists. Enjoy perusing the elite resorts on these pages as well as in person.
