Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play 2020: New York

The Black course at Bethpage State Park is No. 1 on the list of of Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play 2020: New York.

Each year, we publish the three lists that are the foundation of our course-ratings program: Golfweek’s Best 2020: Top 200 Classic Courses, Golfweek’s Best 2020: Top 200 Modern Courses and Golfweek’s Best 2020: Best Courses You Can Play.

Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play 2020 in New York

  1. Bethpage State Park (Black), Farmingdale (No. 27 c)
  2. Trump Golf Links Ferry Point, New York (m)
  3. Turning Stone Resort (Atunyote), Verona (m)
  4. Leatherstocking, Cooperstown (c)
  5. Sagamore, Bolton Landing (c)
  6. Pound Ridge GC, Pound Ridge (m)
  7. Montauk Downs State Park, Montauk Point (m)
  8. Bethpage State Park (Red), Farmingdale (c)
  9. Turning Stone Resort (Shenendoah), Verona (m)
  10. Conklin Players Club, Conklin (m)
  11. Turning Stone Resort (Kaluhyat), Verona (m)
  12. Saratoga National, Saratoga (m)
  13. *Links at Union Vale, Lagrangeville (m)
  14. *Centennial, Carmel (m)
  15. Seneca Hickory Stick, Lewiston (m)

*New to the list in 2020

(m): modern
(c): classic

Golfweek’s Best Private Courses 2020 in New York

  1. Shinnecock Hills, Southampton (No. 4 c)
  2. National Golf Links of America, Southampton (No. 5 c)
  3. Fishers Island Club, Fishers Island (No. 10 c)
  4. Friar’s Head, Baiting Hollow (No. 3 m)
  5. Winged Foot (West), Mamaroneck (No. 16 c)
  6. Sebonack, Southampton (No. 6 m)
  7. Quaker Ridge, Scarsdale (No. 28 c)
  8. Garden City GC, Garden City (No. 29 c)
  9. Maidstone Club, East Hampton (No. 30 c)
  10. Winged Foot (East), Mamaroneck (No. 35 c)

* New or returning to the list; c: Classic, built before 1960. m: Modern, built in 1960 or after

Golfweek’s Best 2020

How we rate them

The members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged together to produce a final rating for each course. Then each course is ranked against other courses in its state, or nationally, to produce the final rankings.

Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play 2020: California

Pebble Beach Golf Links tops the list in Arizona for Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play 2020.

Each year, we publish the three lists that are the foundation of our course-ratings program: Golfweek’s Best 2020: Top 200 Classic Courses, Golfweek’s Best 2020: Top 200 Modern Courses and Golfweek’s Best 2020: Best Courses You Can Play.

These are the best courses you can play in California.

  1. Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pebble Beach (No. 9 c)
  2. Pasatiempo, Santa Cruz (No. 32 c)
  3. Spyglass Hill, Pebble Beach (No. 33 m)
  4. Torrey Pines (South), San Diego (No. 109 c)
  5. Rustic Canyon, Moorpark (No. 151 m)
  6. Rams Hill, Borrego Springs (No. 198 m)
  7. CordeValle, San Martin (m)
  8. Torrey Pines (North), San Diego (m)
  9. Yocha Dehe at Cache Creek Casino, Brooks (m)
  10. PGA West (Stadium), La Quinta (m)
  11. Links at Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach (m)
  12. Barona Creek, Lakeside (m)
  13. Poppy Hills, Pebble Beach (m)
  14. Bayonet, Seaside (c)
  15. Pelican Hill (Ocean North), Newport Coast (m)
  16. The Grand GC, San Diego (m)
  17. Pelican Hill (Ocean South), Newport Coast (m)
  18. Baylands Golf Links, Palo Alto (m)
  19. Trump National, Rancho Palos Verdes (m)
  20. Desert Willow (Firecliff), Palm Desert (m)
  21. SilverRock, La Quinta (m)*
  1. PGA West (Nicklaus), La Quinta (m)
  2. The Golf Club at Copper Valley (formerly Saddle Creek), Copperopolis (m)
  3. TPC Harding Park, San Francisco (c)*
  4. Oak Quarry, Riverside (m)*
  1. Maderas, Poway (m)
  2. La Quinta Resort (Mountain), La Quinta (m)*
  3. Quail Lodge, Carmel (m)*
  1. Aviara, Carlsbad (m)
  2. Indian Wells Golf Resort (Players), Indian Wells (m)

*New to the list in 2020

(m): modern
(c): classic

Golfweek’s Best 2020: Top 30 Campus Courses

The rankings below reflect where these courses fall among the top 30 Campus Courses in the United States.

T-14. Stanford Golf Course, 6.07

Stanford, Calif.; William P. Bell, George C. Thomas Jr., John Harbottle III, 1930

Golfweek’s Best 2020: Top 50 Casino Courses

The rankings below reflect where these courses fall among the top 50 Casino Courses in the United States.

8. Barona Creek, 6.50

Lakeside, Calif.; Gary Roger Baird, Todd Eckenrode; 2001

18. Yocha Dehe at Cache Creek Casino, 6.16

Brooks, Calif.; Brad Bell; 2008

T-29. Journey at Pechanga, 5.79

Temecula, Calif.; Arthur Hills, Steve Forrest; 2008

T-29. Eagle Falls 5.79

Indio, Calif.; Clive Clark; 2008

41. The Links at Rolling Hills (formerly Sevillano Links), 5.53

Corning, Calif.; Mike Stark; 2007

Golfweek’s Best 2020

How we rate them: The members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged together to produce a final rating for each course. Then each course is ranked against other courses in its state, or nationally, to produce the final rankings.

Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play 2023: State-by-state rankings for public-access layouts

State-by-state rankings of the best public courses you can play in all 50 states.

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Want to play the best public-access golf courses in each state? Keep reading.

Fresh for 2023, we present the Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list for the top public-access layouts in each state, as judged by our nationwide network of raters.

The hundreds of members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them on 10 criteria on a points basis of 1 through 10. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings are averaged to produce all our Golfweek’s Best course rankings.

The courses on this list allow public access in some fashion, be it standard daily green fees, through a resort or by staying at an affiliated hotel. If there’s a will, there’s a tee time – no membership required. (There are a handful of courses on this list that some players might consider to be private, but they do allow non-hosted, non-member guest play in some limited form, normally through a local hotel or similar arrangement.)

There’s one course of particular note this year. Of the dozens of courses new to this list, only Landmand Golf Club in Homer, Nebraska, debuts in the No. 1 spot in its state. Designed by Tad King and Rob Collins, Landmand opened in 2022.

KEY: (m) modern, built in 1960 or after; (c) classic, built before 1960. For courses with a number preceding the (m) or (c), that is where the course ranks on Golfweek’s Best lists for top 200 modern and classic courses in the U.S.

* indicates new or returning to the rankings

Editor’s note: The Golfweek’s Best 2023 rankings of top private courses in each state will be published Monday, June 12. More lists, such as the top 200 Modern and top 200 Classic Courses lists for 2023, will be published in the following weeks.

More Golfweek’s Best for 2023:

10 PGA Tour stops you can play in 2022-23

You may not be able to hit it like the pros, but you can play at a number of the same courses.

The PGA Tour kicks off its 2022-23 season this week at the Fortinet Championship in Napa, California.

As the best players in the world prepare to begin another season, golf fans prepare to live vicariously through their heroes competing at courses around the U.S.

To help turn your TV daydream into a reality, Golfweek has compiled 10 courses from the PGA Tour schedule that anyone can play – if their pockets are deep enough.

Want to test your skill at the island green at TPC Sawgrass? No problem. Perhaps you want to feel the ocean breeze on your face as you escape a cliff’s edge at Pebble Beach? We’ve got you covered.

All the courses on this list allow public access in some fashion, be it standard daily green fees, through a resort or by staying at an affiliated hotel. If there’s a will, there’s a tee time. Golfweek’s Best offers many lists of course rankings, with the list of top public-access courses in each state among the most popular. Each of the courses below is public-access, although greens fees at several of them go above $500 per player.

The hundreds of members of the Golfweek’s Best ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on 10 criteria on a points basis of 1 through 10. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those averaged overall ratings are presented for each course below.

12 best golf courses in Ireland and Northern Ireland

The best golf courses that the Éire has to offer.

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Ireland and Northern Ireland? The green waves of Emerald Isle? An ice-cold pint of Guinness? Rory McIlroy?

One thing that should not go overlooked is the beauty of both Irish and Northern Irish golf.

The Éire boasts some of the most breathtaking golf courses in the world, and Golfweek has compiled a ranking so you know exactly which courses you need to hit on your next golf vacation.

More U.K. course rankings: 10 best courses in Scotland | 10 Best courses in England

This ranking comes directly from the hundreds of Golfweek’s Best Raters for 2021 who continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course on a points basis of 1-10. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged to produce a final rating for each course. Only a handful of courses in the world achieve a rating above 9, and any course rated 7 or above presents a can’t-miss opportunity.

For more of Golfweek’s Best course lists, check out the most recent selection of course rankings:

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10 best golf courses in England

Does the 2023 Open Championship host, Royal Liverpool, make the cut?

When it comes to golf courses in the United Kingdom, Scotland tends to get most of the glory. However, those who overlook English golf do so at their own peril, as England boasts some incredible courses – both along the coasts and inland.

With the 2023 British Open going to Royal Liverpool, Golfweek has put together a list of the best courses England has to offer.

More U.K. course rankings: 10 best courses in Scotland | Top 50 classic courses in Great Britain and Ireland | Top 50 modern courses in Great Britain and Ireland

These rankings come directly from the hundreds of Golfweek’s Best Raters for 2021 who continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course on a points basis of 1-10. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged to produce a final rating for each course. Only a handful of courses in the world achieve a rating above 9, and any course rated 7 or above presents a can’t-miss opportunity.

For more of Golfweek’s Best course lists, check out the most recent selection of course rankings:

We occasionally recommend interesting products, services, and gaming opportunities. If you make a purchase by clicking one of the links, we may earn an affiliate fee. Golfweek operates independently, though, and this doesn’t influence our coverage.

10 best golf courses in Scotland

St. Andrews is spectacular, but there’s more magic at the home of golf than just The Old Course.

The golf world returns home as the 150th Open Championship will be played at the Old Course at St. Andrews.

The fans are excited, the Tour pros are excited, even the LIV golfers are allowed in on the action.

We know that most golf fans will spend the next week and more dreaming of hitting the Scottish links, so we here at Golfweek are doing everything within our power to make that dream a bit more real.

Last week we gave you some of the best U.K. golf vacations out there, but this week our focus narrows to Scotland and the 10 best courses that the home of golf has to offer.

These rankings come directly from the hundreds of Golfweek’s Best Raters for 2021 who continually evaluated courses and rated them based on our 10 criteria. They also filed a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged to produce a final rating for each course.

For more of Golfweek’s Best course lists, check out the most recent selection of course rankings:

We occasionally recommend interesting products, services, and gaming opportunities. If you make a purchase by clicking one of the links, we may earn an affiliate fee. Golfweek operates independently, though, and this doesn’t influence our coverage.

2022 Golfweek Senior National Match Play Championship

The Golfweek Senior National Match-Play Championship consists of four separate brackets, senior (age 55-64), super-senior (age 65-69), legends (age 70-74), and super legends (75+). Over the course of three days, players in each bracket will be …

The Golfweek Senior National Match-Play Championship consists of four separate brackets, senior (age 55-64), super-senior (age 65-69), legends (age 70-74), and super legends (75+). Over the course of three days, players in each bracket will be whittled to one Senior National Match-Play champion in each division. The Golfweek Senior National Match Play is not a one loss and done tournament. As players are eliminated from match-play they will enter a consolation stroke-play competition using the stableford scoring system. Duke University Golf Club will be the perfect venue to host Golfweek’s ninth annual Senior National Match Play!

Golfweek’s Best Private Courses 2022: State-by-state rankings of private courses

The best of the best. State-by-state rankings of the best U.S. private golf courses in 2022.

Welcome to Golfweek’s Best 2022 list of top private golf courses in the U.S., as judged by our international panel of raters.

The hundreds of members of that ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on 10 criteria on a points basis of 1 through 10. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings are averaged to produce these rankings.

All the courses on this list are private and don’t accept daily-fee or resort play.

KEY: (m) modern, built in 1960 or after; (c) classic, built before 1960. For courses with a number preceding the (m) or (c), that is where the course ranks on Golfweek’s Best lists for top 200 modern and classic courses in the U.S. Also included with many courses are links to recent stories about that layout.

* indicates new or returning to the rankings

Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play 2022: State-by-state rankings for public-access layouts

Where are the best places you can play golf in all 50 states? Our state-by-state rankings of the best public courses for 2022 will be your guide.

Looking to peg it up at the best public-access golf courses in each state? We have you covered.

With this 2022 list of Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play, we present the top public-access courses in each state, as judged by our nationwide network of raters.

The hundreds of members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on 10 criteria on a points basis of 1 through 10. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings are averaged to produce these rankings.

All the courses on this list allow public access in some fashion, be it standard daily green fees, through a resort or by staying at an affiliated hotel. If there’s a will, there’s a tee time.

KEY: (m) modern, built in 1960 or after; (c) classic, built before 1960. For courses with a number preceding the (m) or (c), that is where the course ranks on Golfweek’s Best lists for top 200 modern and classic courses in the U.S. Also included with many courses are links to recent stories about that layout.

* indicates new or returning to the rankings

Editor’s note: The Golfweek’s Best rankings of top private courses in each state will be published Monday, June 6.