2. Tobacco Road Golf Club
Sanford, N.C.

One of the most polarizing courses in America is this Mike Strantz masterpiece in the North Carolina Sandhills. Funky, multi-tiered greens straight from a Dali painting, blind shots, massive mounds and freakish forced carries over scrub-covered dunes will alternately delight and derail you. A 150 slope buttresses the paltry length from the tips of 6,554 yards, so this is one Tobacco that will really suck the air from your lungs. While this golf on steroids experience isn't for everybody, there's no chance of ever getting bored.