Summary of changes from previous rankings

New entries

Fell off the ranking

Biggest improvements

Biggest drops

2003-2004 rankings

Course Location Year Designed Golf Digest Golf Magazine Average
Pine Valley Pine Valley, NJ 1918 1 1 1
Cypress Point Pebble Beach, CA 1928 3 2 2.5
Augusta National Augusta, GA 1933 2 4 3
Shinnecock Hills Southampton, NY 1931 6 3 4.5
Pebble Beach Pebble Beach, CA 1919 5 5 5
Oakmont Oakmont, PA 1903 4 9 6.5
Merion Ardmore, PA 1912 7 8 7.5
Pinehurst (No. 2) Pinehurst, NC 1935 12 6 9
Winged Foot (West) Mamaroneck, NY 1923 9 10 9.5
Oakland Hills Bloomfield Hills, MI 1918 8 16 12
Seminole Juno Beach, FL 1929 14 13 13.5
National Golf Links Southampton, NY 1911 19 12 15.5
The Country Club Chestnut Hill, MA 1895 11 21 16
Oak Hill Rochester, NY 1925 10 26 18
Crystal Downs Frankfort, MI 1931 23 15 19
Prairie Dunes Hutchinson, KS 1937 25 14 19.5
Southern Hills Tulsa, OK 1936 15 25 20
Olympic (Lake) San Francisco, CA 1924 16 24 20
Muirfield Village Dublin, OH 1974 18 23 20.5
Medinah (No. 3) Medinah, IL 1928 13 30 21.5
Sand Hills Mullen, NE 1995 38 7 22.5
San Francisco San Francisco, CA 1924 28 17 22.5
Riviera Pacific Palisades, CA 1926 26 22 24
Bethpage (Black) Farmingdale, NY 1936 30 19 24.5
Baltusrol (Lower) Springfield, NJ 1922 22 27 24.5
Inverness Toledo, OH 1919 17 34 25.5
Fishers Island Fishers Island, NY 1926 34 18 26
Chicago Wheaton, IL 1894 33 20 26.5
Quaker Ridge Scarsdale, NY 1918 20 37 28.5
Pacific Dunes Bandon, OR 2001 47 11 29
Garden City Garden City, NY 1899 29 32 30.5
Los Angeles (North) Los Angeles, CA 1921 27 35 31
Winged Foot (East) Mamaroneck, NY 1923 32 39 35.5
Scioto Columbus, OH 1916 31 42 36.5
Cherry Hills Cherry Hills Village, CO 1923 21 53 37
Somerset Hills Bernardsville, NJ 1918 41 41 41
Olympia Fields (North) Olympia Fields, IL 1922 24 60 42
The Golf Club New Albany, OH 1967 57 28 42.5
Wade Hampton Cashiers, NC 1987 37 51 44
Spyglass Hill Pebble Beach, CA 1966 43 45 44
Maidstone East Hampton, NY 1924 56 36 46
Colonial Fort Worth, TX 1936 35 59 47
Homestead (Cascades) Hot Springs, VA 1923 39 56 47.5
TPC Sawgrass Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 1980 67 33 50
Shadow Creek North Las Vegas, NV 1990 48 52 50
Peachtree Atlanta, GA 1947 51 50 50.5
Whistling Straits (Straits) Haven, WI 1998 71 31 51
Camargo Indian Hill, OH 1927 66 38 52
Harbour Town Hilton Head Island, SC 1969 65 40 52.5
Bandon Dunes Bandon, OR 1999 62 43 52.5
Baltimore Lutherville, MD 1926 55 54 54.5
Shoreacres Lake Bluff, IL 1921 82 29 55.5
Plainfield Edison, NJ 1921 45 66 55.5
Congressional Bethesda, MD 1962 63 49 56
Kiawah Island (Ocean) Kiawah Island, SC 1991 70 44 57
Honors Course Ooltewah, TN 1983 58 57 57.5
Interlachen Edina, MN 1911 36 81 58.5
Hazeltine National Chaska, MN 1962 53 65 59
Wannamoisett Rumford, RI 1916 44 75 59.5
Canterbury Beachwood, OH 1922 46 74 60
Kittansett Marion, MA 1922 50 78 64
East Lake Atlanta, GA 1915 74 58 66
Milwaukee River Hills, WI 1929 40 95 67.5
Crooked Stick Carmel, IN 1967 54 88 71
Ocean Forest Sea Island, GA 1995 96 47 71.5
Forest Highlands Flagstaff, AZ 1988 72 71 71.5
Long Cove Hilton Head Island, SC 1982 77 68 72.5
Double Eagle Galena, OH 1992 85 64 74.5
Laurel Valley Ligonier, PA 1959 59 92 75.5
Shoal Creek Shoal Creek, AL 1977 64 87 75.5
Dunes Club Myrtle Beach, SC 1950 78 77 77.5
Bellerive St. Louis, MO 1960 61 96 78.5
Desert Forest Carefree, AZ 1962 80 82 81
Blackwolf Run Kohler, WI 1990 79 85 82
Salem Peabody, MA 1925 69 100 84.5
Black Diamond Ranch Lecanto, FL 1987 95 76 85.5
Mauna Kea Waimea, HI 1964 84 90 87
Pasatiempo Santa Cruz, CA 1929 91 84 87.5
Butler National Oak Brook, IL 1974 42 - -
Cabot Citrus (Pine Barrens) Brooksville, FL 1993 - 46 -
Valley Club of Montecito Montecito, CA 1929 - 48 -
Victoria National Newburgh, IN 1998 49 - -
Aronimink Newtown Square, PA 1928 52 - -
Yeamans Hall Charleston, SC 1926 - 55 -
Cog Hill (No. 4) Lemont, IL 1964 60 - -
Briar’s Creek Johns Island, SC 2001 - 61 -
Piping Rock Locust Valley, NY 1913 - 62 -
Pete Dye Bridgeport, WV 1994 - 63 -
Torrey Pines (South) La Jolla, CA 1957 - 67 -
Castle Pines Castle Rock, CO 1981 68 - -
Yale New Haven, CT 1923 - 69 -
Myopia Hunt South Hamilton, MA 1898 - 70 -
Hidden Creek Egg Harbor, NJ 2002 - 72 -
Baltusrol (Upper) Springfield, NJ 1922 - 73 -
Prince Princeville, HI 1990 73 - -
Jupiter Hills Tesquesta, FL 1970 75 - -
Point O’ Woods Benton Harbor, MI 1958 76 - -
Newport Newport, RI 1899 - 79 -
The Creek Club Locust Valley, NY 1923 - 80 -
Pine Tree Boynton Beach, FL 1961 81 - -
Eugene Eugene, OR 1967 83 - -
Lehigh Allentown, PA 1927 - 83 -
Atlanta Marietta, GA 1965 86 - -
Nantucket Nantucket, MA 1998 - 86 -
Valhalla Louisville, KY 1986 87 - -
Quarry at La Quinta La Quinta, CA 1994 88 - -
Sea Island (Seaside) St. Simons Island, GA 1999 - 89 -
Stanwich Greenwich, CT 1962 89 - -
Old Warson St. Louis, MO 1955 90 - -
Firestone (South) Akron, OH 1929 - 91 -
Grandfather Linville, NC 1967 92 - -
Bel-Air Los Angeles, CA 1926 - 93 -
NCR (South) Kettering, OH 1954 93 - -
Greenville (Chanticleer) Greenville, SC 1970 94 - -
Ridgewood Paramus, NJ 1929 - 94 -
Atlantic Bridgehampton, NY 1992 - 97 -
Estancia Scottsdale, AZ 1995 97 - -
Galloway National Galloway, NJ 1994 - 98 -
Sahalee Sammamish, WA 1969 98 - -
Indianwood (Old) Lake Orion, MI 1925 - 99 -
Rich Harvest Sugar Grove, IL 1999 99 - -
Sycamore Hills Fort Wayne, IN 1989 100 - -