Golf Special Report: Top 20 golf courses, Pine Valley Golf Club (Part 4)
Making a series of holes, bunkers, fairways and hazards is never an easy task. Pros want landscapes that please them and their putters in every way and the designers understand this. While they can’t help introducing the nature-challenge combo to the fields,
we can’t ignore the top 20 golf courses in the world. These golf clubs just keep on getting better and better with the passing years.
Augusta Golf Resort:
This famous golf course was designed by Mackenzie and Jones in the year 1932 and currently stands at position number 5 in our list of top 20 golf courses.
This golf course is known to hold the Masters every year-the most sacrosanct tournament in the United States. The Masters are thus held every spring at this fine-looking golf course situated in Augusta Georgia.
The Augusta Golf Resort is included in the top cream clubs due to its “Amen Corner”. The golf course is surrounded by the pink azaleas here and there especially near the three toughest holes of the sport-the 11th, 12th and 13th
thus forming the Amen Corner.
Another factor worth mentioning about the Augusta Golf Resort is that the winners are given a special green blazer which makes the champs extremely easy to spot.
Shinnecock Hills:
The Par 70 golf club was designed by Toomey and Flynn in 1931 and is exceedingly famous for the fair treatment it followed. The Shinnecock Hills was one of the first golf clubs to admit women as its members and was thus highly respected for it.
Apart from being the first club house to admit women as its members, Shinnecock Hills is the first club house in the United States first built in 1893 as of Stanford White’s design.
The 6,996 yardage course has the most challenging winds it can offer since it is situated near the Atlantic Ocean and is the host for the most lethal winds any golfer can imagine.
Royal Melbourn Golf Club:
This golf club was designed by Mackenzie and Russell in the year 1926. The Australian course consists of two courses East and West which are both 18 hole courses. Where the East has the yardage of 6.598, the West consists of 6589 yards in total.
It can also form the Composite course of 12 holes for several tournaments and its special members’ event. The 12 holes are composited from the West while six form the East.
Royal Melbourn Golf Club was first built in 1959 and hosted the World Cup. The World Cup was formerly known as the Canada Cup.
Cypress Point Club:
This runner-up course is the workmanship of Dr. Alister Mackenzie in the year 1929. The course is situated at the elegant Californian south Pebble Beach and has an 18-hole rolling fairway.
The course in Big Sur country is a Par 72 course with a total yardage of 6,536 yards. This is a Private golf course and hence does not host any casual players chipping away near the Pacific coastline.
Pine Valley Golf Club:
This top class course was designed by Crump and Colt in 1918 and has the yardage of 6,765 to reach the apex of our list.
The Pine Valley Golf Club is one of the finest and the most mysterious golf courses to have been built till date. It is a private course which is known to be extremely difficult to find in the first place. This circle is located in Clementon New Jersey.
The club was first initiated in the 1913s with only a mere 184 yards at disposal. Later, further 416 acres of land were added to this scenic course which enhanced the beauty of this place many folds.
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