Where do you want to go?

Remote links resort on bluffs above the Pacific—five walking-only courses.

Five state-park courses topped by the Black—Tillinghast's walking-only brute that hosts majors and still charges muni rates.

Two championship courses amid the vineyards of the Médoc—Bill Coore's Châteaux and Rod Whitman's Vignes, with Bordeaux's wine route out the back gate.

True seaside links on the Gulf of St. Lawrence—Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs put tiny Inverness, Nova Scotia on every golfer's map.

Cabot's Florida outpost—rolling sand ridges an hour north of Tampa, with two full courses and two short courses built for winter escapes.

Castle Stuart's fabled firth-side links, now joined by Tom Doak's Old Petty—Highland golf minutes from Inverness.

Point Hardy Golf Club—Coore & Crenshaw's cliff-top stunner on Saint Lucia's northern tip, where half the holes touch the Atlantic.

Strantz country beyond Pinehurst—Tobacco Road's blind dunes and Tot Hill Farm's rock-and-creek fever dream.

High-desert golf hub near Bend—an easy Oregon add-on.

County-owned links and 2015 U.S. Open host on Puget Sound.

Pete Dye's Whistling Straits—two miles of man-made Lake Michigan links with three PGAs and a Ryder Cup on the wall.

The 2017 US Open host—heaving glacial fescue land northwest of Milwaukee, walking only, caddies worth every penny.

David McLay Kidd links above the Columbia River—wide, joyful golf.

Gold Mountain's Olympic Course—Washington's best muni, carved through Puget Sound firs a ferry ride from Seattle.

Big desert golf on the edge of Sin City—Cascata's canyon spectacle and Serket's Rees Jones test, both minutes from the Strip.

Links golf above the Arctic Circle—oceanside holes among the rocks and, in high summer, tee times around the clock under the midnight sun.

Jack Nicklaus's Grand Bear, carved through the pines of the De Soto National Forest—big-name golf at casino-trip prices.

Caledonia and True Blue—Mike Strantz's lowcountry pair across the road from each other at the quiet end of the Grand Strand.

The pilgrimage—Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill and the 17-Mile Drive, where American resort golf was invented.

The cradle of American golf—eleven courses (and counting) in the Carolina sandhills, anchored by Donald Ross's No. 2.

Dream Golf's next act—Coore & Crenshaw routing 90-foot dunes on Colorado's eastern plains, with public play from May 2027.

Torrey Pines—36 municipal holes on the bluffs above the Pacific, with US Open pedigree and hang gliders overhead.

A sand-based dunes destination in central Wisconsin, with several distinct courses across one property.

Chariot Run in Laconia—a polished, inclusive-priced parkland test tied to Caesars Southern Indiana, an easy add to a Louisville trip.

Modern golf's boldest trio—soon five—rising out of old phosphate-mine dunes an hour and a half from Tampa.

Tom Doak's walk in the East Texas pines—Dream Golf's sandy, rumpled newcomer opens to the public September 2026.

Strantz's Irish twins—Royal New Kent's transplanted links and Stonehouse's ravine ride—minutes from Colonial Williamsburg.