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…
Located in the West Valley near Phoenix-Scottsdale is one of Arizona's most historic golf resorts, Wigwam. Set on 440 acres, this village-style resort features three 18-hole golf courses, including two designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., most notably the famous Gold Course. The resort features 331 casitas and suites with large private patios and…
The Lodges of the Lakes was Nekoosa’s original golf resort before the nearby Sand Valley Golf Resort burst onto the national scene in 2017. Located 35 miles north of the Wisconsin Dells, the Lodges of the Lakes offers golf-course accommodations and 36 holes on the semiprivate, member-owned Pines and Lakes courses. The 300-acre Lake Arrowhead is…
Mt. Hood Oregon Resort (formerly named The Resort at the Mountain) is a 27-hole golf resort with a lighted, 18-hole putting course. The property is open year round and located in the Willamette Valley near Portland with easy access to ski lifts in the winter time. In the summer it's a mountain getaway with a peaceful mountain course surrounded by…
SentryWorld is the oldest 'destination' course in Wisconsin, built in the 1980s long before Whistling Straits, Erin Hills and Sand Valley. The course’s 200+ acres of terrain are decorated with various tree species and water hazards, but it's the beautiful flowerbeds surrounding the signature par-3 16th hole that get all the attention. Recent…
The newest university course to open, the latest on two new projects in California, the status of golf in Cabo and a new member-for-a-day auction offering private clubs access.
It's always easy to say a golf course is an amazing traditional golf course -- or the design is an unbelievable links course. It's a whole different ball game when you can say both sentences about the same golf resort. Welcome to Sand Hollow Resort in Hurricane, Utah, two hours north of Las Vegas. A part of the venerable Golf Mesquite Nevada group, this 27-hole John Fought design has to be seen to be believed, Bill Bowman writes.
Mike Keiser once plucked a 28-year-old David McLay Kidd from relative obscurity to craft a gem at Bandon Dunes. Now, 15 years later, the prodigal son will design the second golf course at Sand Valley in Wisconsin.
In Southern California, Robinson Ranch has a new name, Sand Canyon Country Club, and plans to build a hotel onsite in addition to its 27-hole golf course.
When open, Lido was considered one of the world's greatest courses. Now, Mike Keiser's sons and Tom Doak are rebuilding it next to their Sand Valley Golf Resort property.
The family-friendly Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage helps break the stereotype that the California desert is only for snowbirds with silver hair.
With places like SilverRock Resort, Indian Wells Golf Resort and Desert Willow Golf Resort, the Coachella Valley can easily claim to be the municipal golf capital of the world. All three clubs feature courses ranked among the top 50 "munis" in the U.S. by Golfweek, and you can play one former PGA Tour venue for less than $60. That's amazing, as is muni golf in the Coachella Valley. Jason Deegan has more from southern California.
At a par 68 of barely 6,000 yards, Tom Doak's brand-new golf course at the Midwest's best golf resort packs practically every golfing challenge and delight into a smallish footprint.
Scotland. Ireland. Oregon. Wisconsin? A while ago, this would have been an easy “one of these things is not like the other” exercise. But in the last few years, Wisconsin has enjoyed bigger gains in reputation as a golf destination than practically any place in the world.
Beginning at Oregon's Bandon Dunes and continuing in Wisconsin, Colorado and Texas, the vision of Mike Keiser and his family has shaped how (and why) golfers travel for a quarter-century.
The 7,056-yard Firecliff Course at Desert Willow Golf Resort in Palm Desert, Calif. lays claim as one of the best tests of golf in the Coachella Valley. The Firecliff Course features more carries and visual intimidation off the tee, more sand and larger waste areas, harsher green sites and longer par 4s than its sister Mountain View Course. Firecliff's designers essentially supersized all the dramatic elements that make scorecard combustion harder to contain.
The Craddock and Hankins courses at The Retreat & Links at Silvies Valley Ranch in eastern Oregon join The Loop at Forest Dunes Golf Club in Michigan as golf's modern reversible golf courses.
The Craddock and Hankins courses at The Retreat & Links at Silvies Valley Ranch in eastern Oregon join The Loop at Forest Dunes Golf Club in Michigan as golf's modern reversible golf courses.
Silverado Resort and Johnny Miller, a part owner of the resort, will host a fall event for the third time, but there's a renewed sense of excitement about the new Safeway Open.
The Palm Course at JW Marriott Desert Springs in Palm Desert, Calif., was designed by Ted Robinson Sr. in the mid-1980s and touched up by Ted Robinson Jr. in the spring of 2011. Upgrades included new tees, bunkers with crushed marble sand and greens that are now all up to USGA specifications. The Palm has water on 12 holes, so keep plenty of golf balls around.
Ranked among the best casino courses -- and arguably among the best three public courses in Washington -- Salish Cliffs is a Gene Bates design carved out of a Pacific Northwest forest with stunning views of the Kamilche Valley.
The Golf Advisor staff has compiled this photo gallery of some of our favorite Wisconsin public courses, from the major players to the bargains, throughout the state.
More than 36,000 flowers frame the famous 16th hole at SentryWorld, but the truth is the entire Robert Trent Jones Jr. course is worth the trip to central Wisconsin.
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