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Welcome to Golfweek’s Best 2025 list of top resort golf courses in the United States.
The hundreds of members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged to produce a final, cumulative rating. Then each course is ranked against other courses in the region.
This list focuses on the golf courses themselves, not the resorts as a whole or other amenities. Each golf course included is listed with its average rating from 1 to 10, its location, architect(s) and the year it opened.
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1. Pebble Beach Resorts (Pebble Beach Golf Links)
Average rating: 8.74
Location: Pebble Beach, Calif.
Designer(s): Douglas Grant, Jack Neville
Year opened: 1919
2. Bandon Dunes Golf Resort (Pacific Dunes)
Average rating: 8.53
Location: Bandon, Ore.
Designer(s): Tom Doak
Year opened: 2001
3. Pinehurst Resort (No. 2)
Average rating: 8.29
Location: Pinehurst, N.C.
Designer(s): Donald Ross
Year opened: 1907
4. Kohler Whistling Straits (Straits)
Average rating: 8.13
Location: Mosel, Wis.
Designer(s): Pete Dye
Year opened: 1998
5. Bandon Dunes Golf Resort (Bandon Trails)
Average rating: 8.08
Location: Bandon, Ore.
Designer(s): Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw
Year opened: 2005
6. Bandon Dunes Golf Resort (Old Macdonald)
Average rating: 8.06
Location: Bandon, Ore.
Designer(s): Tom Doak, Jim Urbina
Year opened: 2010
7. Bandon Dunes Golf Resort (Bandon Dunes)
Average rating: 8.04
Location: Bandon, Ore.
Designer(s): David McLay Kidd
Year opened: 1999
8. Shadow Creek
Average rating: 7.98
Location: North Las Vegas, Nev.
Designer(s): Tom Fazio
Year opened: 1990
9. Kiawah Island Golf Resort (Ocean)
Average rating: 7.96
Location: Kiawah Island, S.C.
Designer(s): Pete Dye
Year opened: 1991
10. Sand Valley (Lido)
Average rating: 7.76
Location: Nekoosa, Wis.
Designer(s): C.B. Macdonald, Seth Raynor, Tom Doak, Brian Schneider
Year opened: 2023
11. Pebble Beach Resorts (Spyglass Hill)
Average rating: 7.71
Location: Pebble Beach, Calif.
Designer(s): Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Year opened: 1966
12. TPC Sawgrass (Players Stadium)
Average rating: 7.67
Location: Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Designer(s): Pete Dye
Year opened: 1980
13. Bandon Dunes Golf Resort (Sheep Ranch)
Average rating: 7.66
Location: Bandon, Ore.
Designer(s): Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw
Year opened: 2020
14. Four Seasons Resort Lanai (Manele)
Average rating: 7.65
Location: Lanai, Hawaii
Designer(s): Jack Nicklaus
Year opened: 1993
15. Streamsong (Red)
Average rating: 7.52
Location: Bowling Green, Fla.
Designer(s): Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw
Year opened: 2012
T16. Sand Valley (Sand Valley)
Average rating: 7.50
Location: Nekoosa, Wis.
Designer(s): Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw
Year opened: 2017
T16. Sand Valley (Mammoth Dunes)
Average rating: 7.50
Location: Nekoosa, Wis.
Designer(s): David McLay Kidd
Year opened: 2018
18. Kapalua (Plantation)
Average rating: 7.45
Location: Maui, Hawaii
Designer(s): Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw
Year opened: 1991
19. Pinehurst No. 10*
Average rating: 7.42
Location: Pinehurst, N.C.
Designer(s): Tom Doak, Angela Moser
Year opened: 2024
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