The Top 10 New Courses You Can Play

The Top 10 New Courses You Can Play: 2008

1. The Golf Club at Tetherow
Bend, Ore.

7,450 yards, par 72;
Green fees: $195;
866-234-4848; tetherow.com

Scottish designer
David McLay Kidd was
schooled among the dunes
of Machrihanish and the
gorse of Gleneagles, and he
broke into architecture's
elite a decade ago with the
opening of Bandon Dunes.
His worldwide portfolio is
impressive, but Tetherow
is the place he calls home.

The layout rambles
over two ridgelines and is
seeded in wall-to-wall fescue,
ensuring fast conditions and
a links-like emphasis on the
ground game. A spectacular
exception is the all-carry
190-yard, par-3 17th, which
plays into an old pumice pit
to a dry island green.

Tetherow is a private
residential golf club that will
offer limited outside play
until 2010, when an onsite
boutique hotel comes online.
After that, it's members and
resort guests only. That gives
you plenty of time to see the
best "public" course of 2008.