Ranking the world’s top 10 composite golf courses

Here are 10 of the best composite courses – and a couple honorable mentions – to host some of golf’s biggest events through the years.

Blackwolf Run

U.S. Women’s Open

No. 6 at Blackwolf Run Golf Course. (Photo by Blackwolf Run)

Herb Kohler’s The American Club completed the original championship course at Blackwolf Run in Kohler, Wisconsin, which became the catalyst for Wisconsin’s golf boom,in 1988. This featured holes 10-18 of today’s Meadow Valley Course and Nos. 1-4 and 14-18 of today’s River Course. In 1989, architect Pete Dye added nine holes (1-9) to Meadow Valleys, and in 1990, nine additional holes were added, which today are holes 5-13 of the River Course. Ranked No. 24 on Golfweek’s 2019 Top 200 Resort Golf Courses, Blackwolf Run hosted the 1998 and 2012 U.S. Women’s Open and the 1995-97 WGC-Anderson Consulting Championship.

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