Courses also must have a minimum of 25 votes to qualify for the Top 200 Modern or the Top 200 Classic. Other Golfweek’s Best lists, such as Best Courses You Can Play or Best Private, do not require as ...

All golf courses are intended to present some kind of challenge for players, but U.S. Open courses are routinely among the toughest courses the world's best player will face in their careers. While ...

Why rank golf courses? Well, because we love a good 19th-hole debate. We love to make bucket lists. We love to track trends in the sport. We love to know which architects are hot (or not). And nothing ...

Phil Mickelson called Oakmont Country Club the hardest course the pros have ever played, a relentless test from start to finish with no let-up – as it should be for the U.S. Open. But Oakmont, long ...

The definition of a links course fluctuates wildly depending on the golfer. Some apply the strictest criteria: hugging the coastline, built on the sandy terrain that links farmland to the sea, holes ...

The U.S. Open is considered the toughest test in golf. Oakmont, the site of this year's tournament, is generally considered one of the toughest courses in golf. So if the toughest test in golf is ...

GOLF’s 117 course panelists have voted! The result in our 2022-23 ranking of the Top 100 Courses in the U.S.: an eclectic mix of designs that favors diversity, sandy soil and a return to the Golden ...

There are probably as many answers as there are golfers. After all, fun is in the belly laugh of the beholder. I recall a round years ago on a nine-hole course with sand greens in central Kansas where ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. A 2023 survey from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education found 36 percent of young adults (18- to ...

This year’s event is at Torrey Pines, which is owned by San Diego, but the U.S.G.A. may create a rotation that skips such courses. By Paul Sullivan The United States Open is meant to be memorable, ...