Golfers' Choice 2021: Top 25 College Golf Courses

Best campus and collegiate-affiliated public golf courses according to our reviews community.
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Golfers' Choice is counting down the best collegiate and university-affiliated public golf courses you can play. To determine the collegiate list, we apply our weighted ratings logic and combine the overall and subcategory star-rating averages. Golf courses must offer public tee times and have received one review in 2020.

Top 25 public college golf courses

  1. Blythewood, S.C.

  2. Tucson, Ariz.

  3. Allendale, Mich.

  4. Angola, Ind.

  5. Chapel Hill, N.C.

  6. Ypsilanti, Mich.

  7. Corvallis, Ore.

  8. College Station, Texas

  9. Phoenix, Ariz.

  10. Coral Gables, Fla.

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Seven oaks- Colgate U. Robert Trent Jones - Hamilton, Ny - challenging, beautiful, scenic!

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How could you leave out Karsten Creek in Stillwater, OK?

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This would have been a better article if any effort whatsoever had been made to supply which college teams called these courses home (when it wasn't clear otherwise). If I didn't know Oregon State's home course was Trysting Tree, for example, or that Corvallis only has that university, it wouldn't have given me any additional information about that. Does Miami or FIU play at the Biltmore? Which school is in Verona, Wisconsin?

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Have played both UNC Finley and Lonnie Poole which is an Arnold Palmer design, I recommend both and reasonably priced.

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