Golfweek’s Best 2022: Top public and private courses in West Virginia

The mountains of West Virginia offer several of the top golf courses in the U.S.

Golf in West Virginia is played across a scenic and mountainous landscape, and several of the state’s top layouts rank among the best in the U.S.

Golfweek’s Best offers many lists of course rankings, with that of top public-access courses in each state among the most popular. 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.

Also popular are the Golfweek’s Best rankings of top private courses in each state, and that list for West Virginia’s private offerings is likewise included below.

MORE: Best Modern | Best Classic | Top 200 Resort | Top 200 Residential | Top 100 Best You Can Play

(m): Modern course, built in or after 1960
(c): Classic course, built before 1960

Note: If there is a number in the parenthesis with the m or c, that indicates where that course ranks among Golfweek’s Best top 200 modern or classic courses. 

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Michigan State Football offers 2022 athlete Derek Taylor from Tennessee

The Spartans have offered an intriguing multi-positional athlete out of Tennessee.

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Michigan State Football is searching for the diamonds in the rough to fill out their 2022 recruiting class, and the latest player they are taking a longer look at is 2022 multi-positional athlete Derek Taylor out of Greenbrier, Tennessee.

Derek Taylor is currently unranked and only has offers from Marshall, Eastern Kentucky, and now the Spartans, who offered him on Thursday.

Taylor fits the profile of what Tucker is looking for. At 6’4″, Taylor has size and the ability to play multiple positions shows his athleticism.

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PGA Tour, A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier cancel remaining years of contract

Tournament organizers for the PGA Tour’s West Virginia stop have canceled the remaining six years of its contract.

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The PGA Tour’s West Virginia stop, A Military Tribute at the Greenbrier, isn’t just skipping this season because of COVID-19 rescheduling. Tournament organizers have canceled the remaining six years of its contract, which was to have run through 2026.

The tournament on the Old White TPC course in White Sulphur Springs, which began in 2010 as the Greenbrier Classic, had been scheduled for September and was to kick off the 2020-21 PGA Tour season. It was replaced on the PGA Tour’s revised schedule announced Thursday by the Safeway Open in California.

Tournament organizers said in a release that moving the event to the fall, which occurred in 2019 as the PGA Tour shuffled its schedule, did not work out for attendance and sponsors as well as when the event was played around the Fourth of July.

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“We are happy to reach a resolution with the PGA Tour that is mutually beneficial to both parties in this time of crisis,” Jill Justice, president of the Greenbrier, said in the release.

“We owe a supreme debt of gratitude to (West Virginia) Governor Jim Justice (owner of the Greenbrier) and his Greenbrier resort for a highly successful 10 years of partnership with the PGA Tour,” said Andy Pazder, executive vice president and COO for the PGA Tour. “Governor Justice’s vision and leadership helped shine a light on the men and women that serve our country through the military and first responder programs he implemented through the tournament, and the Greenbrier resort was an incredibly unique and world-class venue that our players will always remember and cherish.”

Winners of A Military Tribute at the Greenbrier

2010: Stuart Appleby

2011: Scott Stallings

2012: Ted Potter

2013: Jonas Blixt

2014: Angel Cabrera

2015: Danny Lee

2016: Canceled after a severe flood

2017: Xander Schauffele

2018: Kevin Na

2019: Joaquin Niemann

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