GOLF’s Top 100 course panelists are among the most respected and well-traveled course evaluators in the game. They’re also keen to share their opinions. In this GOLF.com series, we’ll unlock their ...

To conduct our annual awards for Best New Private and Public, Best Renovation and Best Transformation, Golf Digest’s ...

The American golf landscape is about to get even more interesting. In 2026, five highly anticipated projects from some of ...

The first amateur golf design competition was likely held in 1914 when Country Life Magazine asked readers to submit suggestions for a theoretical hole. Actual architect C.B. Macdonald, one of the ...

The club features an 18-hole championship course designed by Bob Cupp and was previously co-owned by Halstatt LLC and the SJ ...

With the arrival of each new Top 100 ranking, the world’s premier course architects peek to see where their work stands — even as they’re skeptical about this business of calling something “the best.” ...

He’s got this gravelly, identifiable voice. He’s slow and steady – and often, these days, Rod Whitman is winning the race. Whitman, now 69, is spearheading some impressive projects and is showing no ...

A cadre of design critics claims that golf course architecture slipped into a dark place from 1945 to 1975, emerging only when Pete Dye began to hit his stride. Others extend the time period another ...