Golf Architect's Top 100

There is no lack of top 100 lists when it comes to golf courses. You can slice them and dice them anyway you like, however, but you'll not find a more thoughtful list by authoritative experts than the Golf Course Architecture Top 100 Courses list.

And what is the first thing you do after you see the list? Count how many you've played, of course. Here's my personal tally:

• 96 Torrey Pines (South)
• 95 Olympic Club (Lake)
• 92 Fisher's Island
• 84 Bandon Trails
• 83 Pasatiempo
• 76 Harbour Town
• 69 Mid Ocean Club
• 65 Casa de Campo (Teeth of the Dog)
• 60 Maidstone
• 57 Spyglass Hill
• 47 Whistling Straits
• 46 Bethpage Black
• 35 TPC Sawgrass (Stadium)
• 33 Kiawah Island (Ocean)
• 32 Crystal Downs
• 31 Winged Foot (West)
• 24 Carnoustie
• 23 Lahinch
• 20 Pacific Dunes
• 19 Kingsbarns
• 15 Pinehurst #2
• 13 Ballybunion (Old)
•  8 Pebble Beach
•  5 National Golf Links of America
•  1 St Andrews (Old)

Still a lot of great golf courses to be played!

Among many other books, Dave Donelson is the author of Weird Golf: 18 tales of fantastic, horrific, scientifically impossible, and morally reprehensible golf