GOLF Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the World

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One hundred voters from 17 countries evaluated a ballot of 464 candidates to determine our Top 100 Courses in the U.S. and the Top 100 Courses in the World.

Showing 11-20 of 100
2011 RANK COURSE COUNTRY DESIGNERsort icon WORLD AVG RANK 2009 RANK
72 Maidstone US Willie Park, Jr.
John Park, 1891
43.11 65
9 Muirfield Scotland H.S. Colt
Old Tom Morris, 1891
76.22 9
17 Ballybunion (Old) Ireland Tom Simpson
P. Murphy, 1893
67 18
42 Lahinch Ireland Alister MacKenzie
Old Tom Morris, 1893
53.65 44
46 Portmarnock (Old) Ireland W.C. Pickeman
George Ross, 1894
52.06 45
24 Chicago US Seth Raynor
C.B. Macdonald, 1895
62.76 24
37 The Country Club (Clyde/Squirrel) US Rees Jones
Willie Campbell, 1895
55.92 37
57 Royal Lytham & St. Annes England George Lowe Jr., 1897 50.16 53
50 Garden City Golf Club US Devereux Emmet, 1899 51.5 51
35 Sunningdale (Old) England H.S. Colt
Willie Park Jr., 1901
56.49 33
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