The Chestnut Ridge Golf Resort and Conference Center in Blairsville, Pa., offers "park and play" golf packages, where golfers don't need their car. Every amenity is here: Two courses, the Spike Bar, the 37 Grille, a spa and salon and a 92-room hotel, the Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton, which offers a free continental breakfast, fire pit and indoor…
Two nationally ranked and highly regarded courses draw golfers to Giants Ridge in Minnesota’s beautiful Superior National Forest within the Mesabi Iron Range north of Duluth. Giants Ridge touts itself as the No. 1-rated family vacation destination in Minnesota. Summer brings golf, mountain biking and all sorts of outdoor fun like adventure camp…
The JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa is among the largest golf resorts in Arizona with 865 guest rooms and suites. It is an amenity of the next door Wildfire Golf Club, home to two full-length, 18-hole golf courses designed by Nick Faldo and Arnold Palmer. The resort features five pool areas, including a lazy river and water slide, as…
Get in on the action at more than 440,000 square feet of gaming at Jackpoint Junction Casino Hotel in Morton in Minnesota’s River Valley. The hotel rooms range from standard to pool and VIP suites. An indoor pool, arcade, fitness center, multiple restaurants and a 30-site RV Park are part of its amenities. More than 1,200 slots and table games…
The Loon Golf Resort has grown to include a second location in Gaylord: The Ridge, formerly the Marsh Ridge Golf Resort. The Loon offers a townhome village with four-bedroom/four-bathroom units with full kitchens just steps from the clubhouse restaurant and the course. The Ridge is more versatile with hotel-style rooms, suites and free-standing…
Olde Beau Resort & Club is located in Western North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains in the town of Roaring Gap. It was named after the developer Billy Satterfield's dog, who is the property's logo. It is home to a scenic, 18-hole mountain course and a 9-hole, par-3 course on property. Accommodations start from studio villas to multi-room cottage…
Sedona Golf Resort is an 18-hole golf club in Sedona with partnerships to various adjacent hotel properties. The golf course is a par 71 that plays just over 6,600 yards from the championship tees and was designed by Gary Panks in 1988. Adjacent to the golf club is the Sedona Hilton Resort at Bell Rock, home to 221 guest rooms and suites,…
Omni Grove Park Inn is located in Asheville, North Carolina and features a historic Mountain course designed by Donald Ross. Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the AAA Four-Diamond property is on the National Register of Historic Places. There are over 500 guest rooms and suites, plenty of meeting space and ten dining concepts ranging from casual to…
The Mount Mitchell Golf Club sits at the base of Mount Mitchell an hour from Asheville and minutes from the famed Blue Ridge Parkway. Despite its mountain setting, the course itself is flat with the South Toe River running through it. This river is ideal for fisherman looking to hook brown and rainbow trout. Golfers can rent two- and three-bedroom…
The Stoneridge Resort is a timeshare resort community in Blanchard, Idaho. Its 150 suites are located in four separate buildings. Residents and resort guests of the StoneRidge Golf Community can enjoy a large Recreation Center, a park with a pavilion, mini-golf, tennis, racquetball, fitness center and indoor pool. Outdoor recreation includes…
The 42-room Manistee National Golf and Resort is another Michigan bargain that sometimes gets lost in the shuffle among the state's crowded golf resort scene. Its two courses, Cutters Ridge and Canthooke Valley, are very enjoyable cart rides through northern Michigan. The addition of an outdoor pool and hot tub have made the inn more hang-out…
Sand Valley has burst onto the Midwest scene in short order, becoming Mike Keiser's inland answer to Bandon Dunes. Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw built the original Sand Valley course in 2017 and followed up in 2018 with the Sandbox, a 17-hole short course. Later in summer 2018, David McLay Kidd's Mammoth Dunes became a favorite of many, riding a…
Jefferson Landing is a golf community you can enjoy for a lifetime or just a weekend. The community's social calendar is filled with golf, tennis, swimming, fitness and outdoor recreation in and around the New River. The renovated clubhouse featured two restaurants, a main dining room and more casual 19th HOle Grille & Patio. Accommodations range…
Yatesville Lake State Park features a good mix of the golf and lake life. There are 47 campsites, but a handful are only accessible by boat and a few others are "hike in" sites. A marina is the center of activity. The Yatesville Lake Golf Course is a par 71 built on mountainous terrain with nice views. The clubhouse serves food and drink. Hiking…
Brunswick Plantation Resort and Golf is located in Calabash, North Carolina, on the north end of the Myrtle Beach-area Grand Strand. This 2,000-acre development features a residential community and semi-private, 27-hole golf course. Villa rentals are available for rent with studio, one- and two-bedroom units. There are multiple outdoor pools…
Set in the Ozarks near the entertainment mecca of Branson, Missouri is Big Cedar Lodge, a 4,600-acre natural playground owned by Bass Pro Shops Founder and Ozarks native Johnny Morris. Since originally opening as a small riverfront resort in the 1920s, today Big Cedar Lodge is one of the largest U.S. golf resorts with three regulation-length…
The Penn National Golf Club & Inn resides in the bucolic central Pennsylvania countryside in the heart of Amish country. The Inn features a manor house and six modern lodge buildings housing 52 guest rooms located off the 8th fairway. The Founders Grille Restaurant & Black Oak Bar are at the clubhouse. Overnight guests have access to the club's…
The Twin Falls Resort State Park is set on a high wooded ridge in the mountains of southern West Virginia. The 48-room mountaintop lodge is home to a fitness center, restaurant and indoor pool. Cabins and camping are also available. A fully functional Pioneer Farm shows visitors a glimpse of frontier life. Hiking, biking and golf on a classic…
The Liberty Mountain Resort, set at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountain, is a four-season getaway. The 116-room Liberty Hotel is a complex of three accommodations: The Highland and Alpine Lodge and the Fairway Hotel adjacent to the Carroll Valley Golf Course. The Eagle and the Owl restaurant is the only restaurant open in the summer. Outdoor…
The Hound Ears Club is a private club and community that offers some public access with stay and plays for a resort-style experience in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The 750 acres are a scenic escape known for casual elegance since 1964. Hound Ears offers dining, six tennis courts, a heated pool, fly-fishing park, dog park, hiking trails, a fitness…
Sibling rivalry is bound to ensue at Predator Ridge Golf Resort in Vernon, B.C., after the opening this year of the Ridge course. It complements the established Predator course, long an institution on the Canadian scene. The new 18 holes were built with scenery and playability in mind. And architect Doug Carrick added a landmark step to the resort's growth.
Tom Fazio's Osprey Ridge at Walt Disney World has earned plenty of accolades since its opening in 1992. It's a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary golf course and has received four and half stars from Golf Digest. But there is another award it's worthy of: The most peaceful escape in all of Disney.
Its zip code is prestigious, but there is no little-brother syndrome at The Ridge at Castle Pines North, one of Colorado's top-ranked public golf facilities. The Ridge has a safe seat at the table of the Denver-area's best public golf courses, Brandon Tucker writes.
The latest college golf course to open is also one of the best college courses in the country. If nothing else, Palouse Ridge Golf Club in Pullman, Wash. is a feast for the visual senses, leaving you spanning the hills, wondering where the best angles are to land your tee shots or approaches, allowing you to free-wheel a shot, which this course encourages.
Pound Ridge Golf Club, located about an hour north of New York City, remains the only Pete Dye design in New York, and it's one of his most difficult and beautiful. The club had been operating out of what seemed to be a temporary clubhouse, but now it's been expanded into a permanent venue.
Golfers rated the top golf courses in Wisconsin, from metro Milwaukee to top resorts and destinations like Whistling Straits, Lake Geneva and Wisconsin Dells.
You can still see cannons on the ridge at Cannon Ridge Golf Club, but now the battles are a little safer as golfers try to defeat this layout. Opened in 2003, it is a 7,100-yard par 71. Today's battles are waged with drivers and putters on L-93 bentgrass, which covers the greens, tee boxes and fairways, and tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass in the roughs.
If you don't have luck on your side, you might want to bring an extra sleeve of balls for your round at River Ridge Golf and C.C., which is located on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River on the southwest outskirts of Edmonton. Although the river is never really in play, there are water hazards lurking on 13 of 18 assignments at the 6,620-yard layout, including eight before the turn.
We looked at your ratings and reviews in the state of Oklahoma in 2017 to determine which courses received the best ratings. Here is the annual top ten determined by golfers like you.
The first thing you notice about Pound Ridge (N.Y.) Golf Club is its beauty. The next thing you notice is how hard this Pete and Perry Dye course is to play. If you're a fan of Dye's work, you'll love Pound Ridge. It's visually stunning, you hardly ever get a flat lie and if you're going to challenge his design, be prepared to pay the consequences if you fail. But one thing is for sure: once you play it, you won't forget it, Mike Bailey writes.
Located in a park-rich region of Northern Virginia, General's Ridge is a relatively short public course, where long drives are less effective than accurate placement. There's dog legs, blind holes, hills and ravines aplenty - but it's the slick stiff grass on the greens that will have you struggling to make par.
SunRidge Canyon Golf Club in Fountain Hills has all you search for in a scenic Arizona setting: rugged canyons, and views of Four Peaks and Mazatzal Mountains.
Alabama's best golf courses, from the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail to the Gulf Shores region, stack up among the best in the southeast. See the top 15 according to your ratings and reviews.
As golf courses across Canada officially begin opening for the 2015 golf season, we're announcing the top courses in Ontario as rated by golfers on Golf Advisor.
The Ridge course at Predator Ridge Golf Resort is a brand new design in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. Opened in the summer of 2010, the course was designed by Canadian architect Doug Carrick. Compared to the original Predator course at Predator Ridge, the Ridge is a bit less penal, with more forgiving fairways and greens.
One of two full-length, 18-hole courses at Eagle Crest Resort, the Ridge Course makes the case for one of central Oregon's best bargains. Located in Redmond, Eagle Crest delivers gorgeous resort golf. The course winds along a ridge affording long views of the Cascade Mountains from its high points. There are a lot of scenic points on the Ridge, perhaps none more so than the view from the par-3 third's elevated tee box, which has a mountain backdrop and juniper forests surrounding the hole.
Eagle Ridge Golf Club has been voted one of the best courses in Ocean and Monmouth Counties. Its three nines -- the Ridge Course, Links Course and Pines Course -- sprawl across a unique topography that you won't find on many other Jersey Shore golf courses.
With the new Ridge course opening in 2010, the original course at Predator Ridge Golf Resort is now the Predator. The Les Furber design opened in 1991 and soon became known as the most difficult test in the Okanagan Valley, a half hour north of Kelowna, the main airport of the region. It is host to many of the area's professional events.
A challenging course, Cannon Ridge Golf Club is also a four-hour history lesson. This Deane Beman/Bobby Weed-designed, 7,100-yard par 71 not only provides plenty of interesting golf holes but several metal placards throughout the course that tell stories of battles and maneuvers that occurred during the Battle of Fredericksburg here in 1862.
The Pet Shop Boys taught us to appreciate "West End Girls." Beacon Ridge Golf & Country Club sells the virtues of "West End Golf." Beacon Ridge feels miles away from the expensive resort golf of Pinehurst and Southern Pines, although geographically it's just down the road. The golf course delivers a value-oriented and unpretentious round in peaceful Carolina surroundings.
Elk Ridge Golf Course in Carson, Washington, formerly Carson Hot Springs Golf Course, is open after a multi-year closure that began in 2006 following foreclosure. It's one of the area's most picturesque golf courses, set on high ground along the Columbia River Gorge.
Situated in the scenic, rolling hills of the far northwest corner of Illinois, Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa is unique both as a golf resort and as a vacation spot -- there is simply nothing else like it in the state.
The Quarry Course at Giants Ridge in Minnesota pays homage to its industrious past with a spectacular 18 holes carved out of dense forest and former mine fields. This Jeff Brauer design can play more than 7,200 yards from the championship tees, making it one of the state's best public tests of golf.
The Legend golf course is the original 18 at Giants Ridge resort, located an hour north of Duluth in the heart of Minnesota's Iron Range. Set on more than 250 acres, the Jeff Brauer design plays alongside the base of the resort's ski mountain and features gentle up-and-down undulations.
It's easy to forget that Pound Ridge Golf Club is less than 50 miles from New York City. The most remote holes near the Connecticut state line sneak through the woods in scenic solitude. They're gorgeous and ferocious.
Tiger's Eye Golf Links at Ocean Ridge Plantation is one of four golf courses at Ocean Ridge north of Myrtle Beach, S.C, in Brunswick County, N.C. The course is a Tim Cate design from 2000 and is one of the 10 Grand Strand golf courses named in Golf Digest's "Top 100 Places you can Play" ranking in 2008.
Check out photos of the original 18-hole course at Big Cedar Lodge and Top of the Rock in Missouri's Ozarks near Branson, Buffalo Ridge Springs Golf Course, designed by Tom Fazio.
Everything about Blue Top Ridge at Riverside Casino & Golf Resort, ranked third among the best public golf courses in Iowa by Golfweek, was created with hosting top players and events in mind.
SunRidge Canyon -- located in Fountain Hills, Ariz., just northeast of Scottsdale -- is better than ever after a 2015 renovation brought new greens, bunkers and changed a few holes to make the course more player friendly.
SunRidge Canyon Golf Club in Fountain Hills, Ariz. isn't particularly long, but it can be demanding. At 6,823 yards, this Keith Foster design winds its away around rugged ridges and canyons through the desert terrain. The course demands accuracy off the tee and the approach shots. There are risk-reward opportunities, but discretion is warranted to shoot a good score.
There's plenty of room to let it rip off the tee on the Ridge Course at Eagle Crest Resort in Redmond, Oregon. But you won't score well here unless you hit accurate approach shots and can read the subtle breaks on the greens. This John Thronson design features constant elevation changes and plenty of challenges.
La Paloma Country Club is among the top desert courses in Tucson, Ariz. Set on 800 acres in the Catalina foothills and designed by Jack Nicklaus in 1984, the golf course features three nine-hole loops, the Hill, Ridge and Canyon courses, all set on dramatic desert terrain with each fairway its own island.
Wolf Creek Golf Club in Mesquite, Nev., a tribute to modern course architecture, dances through a maze of canyons, ridges and cliffs of red rock 90 miles from the famous Las Vegas Strip. It might be the most picturesque inland course on the planet.
The Golf Channel Am Tour's 2016 Major Championships schedule boasts gems like TPC Sawgrass, Pinehurst, Kiawah, Chambers Bay, PGA West, Blackwolf Run, Innisbrook and more.
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