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.

Ridgewood Country Club

The Barclays/The Northern Trust

The 13th hole at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J., host of The Barclays in the PGA Tour’s 2014 FedEx Cup. (Photo by USA TODAY Sports)

Ridgewood Country Club, is a 27-hole A.W. Tillinghast layout (East, Center, West), that has hosted the 1935 Ryder Cup, the 1974 U.S. Amateur, the 1990 U.S. Senior Open and the 2001 Senior PGA Championship. But ever since it began hosting multiple editions of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs stop known originally as The Barclays and now as The Northern Trust, it has assembled a greatest hits of holes to challenge the pros, using the first seven holes from East, Nos. 2-6 from the Center nine, and Nos. 4-9 from the West to round out the layout.