Welcome to Golfweek’s Best 2021 list of top resort golf courses in the United States, first published in the print issue of Golfweek’s Ultimate Guide.
(Pictured above: Bandon Dunes Golf Resort’s new Sheep Ranch, which breaks into this Resort list at No. 8.)
The hundreds of 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 to produce a final, cumulative rating. Then each course is ranked against other courses in the region.
We hope you enjoy poring over these rankings, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts .
Each course is listed with its 2020 ranking, its location, architect(s), the year it opened and an average ranking from all the Golfweek Raters who reviewed it.