Every two years, Golf Digest ranks America’s 100 greatest golf courses and the issuance of the list is always widely-anticipated in golf circles. Here is Ron Whitten’s Ron Whitten’s article on Golf Digest 2007-08 list of America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses (my blog post on the 2005-06 list is here), including a pdf of the entire list. The following is the top 10:
Pine Valley
Shinnecock Hills
Augusta National
Cypress Point Club
Oakmont CC
Pebble Beach Golf Links
Merion G.C. (East Course)
Winged Foot G.C. (West Course)
Seminole G.C.
Crystal Downs CC (Michigan)
Only two Texas courses made the top 100, Dallas National Golf Club at 59 and the venerable Colonial in Ft. Worth at no. 80. Given the number of extraordinary golf courses in Texas, it’s surprising that only one or two makes the Golf Digest Top 100 each year. But it’s hard to quibble with the vast majority of the Golf Digest selections. Here are the six new courses in the top 100, along with the designer:
Lost Dunes G.C., Bridgman, MI (Tom Doak)
Calusa Pines G.C.., Naples, FL (Michael Hurdzan/Dana Fry)
Monterey Peninsula C.C., (Shore) Pebble Beach, CA (Bob Baldock/Mike Stranz)
Tullymore G.C., Stanwood, MI (Jim Engh)
Sycamore Hills G.C., Fort Wayne, IN (Jack Nicklaus)
Kiawah Island Club (Cassique), Kiawah Island, SC (Tom Watson)
Tom Fazio — the designer of the acclaimed Fazio Course at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands — has 14 original designs on this year’s ranking of America’s Top 100.
Update: Golf course design expert and author Geoff Shackelford has more observations on the GD 100.