Oak Hill Country Club Ranked No. 1 Private Facility, Forest Dunes Golf Club Ranked No. 1 Public and Kiawah Island Golf Resort Ranked No. 1 Resort
NEW YORK, NY-The second annual Golf World “Readers’ Choice Awards” have been unveiled, recognizing the 50 best private, public and resort golf facilities in the country. The distinctions are based solely on the input of Golf World readers and will be published in the September 28 issue of the magazine. The full lists, including special online-only sections, can be viewed at www.golfworld.com.
Golf World readers were asked to evaluate the nation’s golf facilities in three distinct categories-private, public and resort-based on 13 different performance criteria, such as quality of the course, course conditions, reputation/prestige and service. More than 46,000 individual facility ratings were received.
Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, NY is the top-rated facility in the private category. The club was ranked No. 5 on the 2009 list. Rounding out the top-five are: T-2 Augusta National GC (Augusta, GA), T-2 Pine Valley GC (Pine Valley, NJ), No. 4 Kinloch CC (Manakin-Sabot, VA), No. 5 Oakmont CC (Oakmont, PA).
New Jersey (seven) has the most private facilities on the list of any state, followed by New York (five) and Georgia/Pennsylvania (four each).
The 2010 list features 18 private facilities that were not ranked in 2009:
No. 4 – Kinloch CC (Manakin-Sabot, VA)
No. 6 – Robert Trent Jones GC (Gainesville, VA)
No. 7 – Inverness Club (Toledo, OH)
No. 8 – The Ridge at Back Brook (Ringoes, NJ)
No. 15 – Trump International GC (West Palm Beach, FL)
No. 16 – Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee (Eatonton, GA)
No. 19 – Colleton River Plantation GC (Bluffton, SC)
No. 23 – Trump National GC (Briarcliff Manor, NY)
No. T-27 – Oakland Hills CC (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
No. T-27 – Valhalla GC (Louisville, KY)
No. 32 – Pete Dye GC (Bridgeport, WV)
No. T-36 – Trump National GC (Bedminster, NJ)
No. 38 – The Bear’s Club (Jupiter, FL)
No. 42 – Quail Hollow Club (Charlotte, NC)
No. 44 – Reynolds Landing (Greensboro, GA)
No. 45 – Jupiter Hills Club (Tequesta, FL)
No. 48 – Galloway National GC (Galloway, NJ)
No. 50 – The Glen Club (Glenview, IL)
On the public side, Forest Dunes Golf Club in Roscommon, MI was voted by Golf World readers as the number one public facility. The rest of the top-five includes: No. 2 Orange County National Golf Center & Lodge (Winter Garden, FL), No. 3 Independence GC (Midlothian, VA), No. 4 Tobacco Road GC (Sanford, NC), No. 5 Stevinson Ranch GC (Stevinson, CA).
Michigan (seven) has the most facilities on the public list of any state, followed by Nevada (five) and California/Florida (each with four).
The 2010 list features 30 public facilities that were not ranked in 2009:
No. 1 – Forest Dunes GC (Roscommon, MI)
No. 3 – Independence GC (Midlothian, VA)
No. 6 – Centennial GC (Medford, OR)
No. 7 – PGA GC at Coyote Springs (Coyote Springs, NV)
No. 8 – Sand Creek Station G Cse (Newton, KS)
No. 9 – Hiddenbrooke GC (Vallejo, CA)
No. 12 – Spring Creek GC (Gordonsville, VA)
No. 14 – Cascata GC (Boulder City, NV)
No. 15 – Trump National GC Los Angeles (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA)
No. 17 – Falcon Ridge GC (Lenexa, KS)
No. 18 – Baywood Greens (Long Neck, DE)
No. 23 – Cedar Chase GC (Cedar Springs, MI)
No. 24 – Pinehills GC (Plymouth, MA)
No. 25 – Desert Willow Golf Resort (Palm Desert, CA)
No. 27 – Eagle Eye GC (Bath, MI)
No. 28 – Bolingbrook GC (Bolingbrook, IL)
No. 30 – Bucks Run GC (Mt. Pleasant, MI)
No. 31 – Pilgrim’s Run GC (Pierson, MI)
No. 33 – Ridges at Sand Creek (Jordan, MN)
No. 34 – Blue Heron Pines GC (Cologne, NJ)
No. 37 – The Tribute GC (The Colony, TX)
No. 38 – Heron Lakes GC (Portland, OR)
No. 39 – Edgewood Tahoe GC (Stateline, NV)
No. 40 – Bryan Park GC (Brown Summit, NC)
No. 41 – Victoria Hills GC (Deland, FL)
No. 42 – Gold Mountain GC (Bremerton, WA)
No. 43 – The Ranch GC (Southwick, MA)
No. 45 – Harmony Golf Preserve (Harmony, FL)
No. 48 – SentryWorld GC (Stevens Point, WI)
No. T-49 – Shepherd’s Hollow GC (Clarkston, MI)
For the second year in a row, Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina is the number one resort on the list. The rest of the top-five consists of: No. 2 Bandon Dunes Golf Resort (Bandon, OR), No. 3 Turning Stone Resort (Verona, NY), No. 4 Coeur d’Alene Resort (Coeur d’Alene, ID), No. 5 Whistling Straits GC (Haven, WI).
Hawaii (eight) has the most resorts on the list of any state represented, followed by Florida (seven) and California (five).
The 2010 list features 16 resort facilities that were not ranked in 2009:
No. 12 – Bay Creek Resort & Club (Cape Charles, VA)
No. T-17 – ChampionsGate Golf Resort (ChampionsGate, FL)
No. 19 – Circling Raven GC (Worley, ID)
No. 22 – Stonewall Resort (Roanoke, WV)
No. 23 – The Wilderness at Fortune Bay (Tower, MN)
No. 24 – Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Ross Bridge Golf Resort (Birmingham, AL)
No. 26 – Waikoloa Beach Resort (Waikoloa, HI)
No. 27 – The Resorts of Tullymore & St. Ives (Stanwood, MI)
No. 32 – Treetops Resort (Gaylord, MI)
No. 36 – The Resort at Pelican Hill (Newport Coast, CA)
No. 39 – GC at Ballantyne Resort (Charlotte, NC)
No. 41 – Marriott’s Shadow Ridge Resort (Palm Desert, CA)
No. 42 – The Dunes Golf & Beach Club (Myrtle Beach, SC)
No. 43 – Turtle Bay Resort (Kahuku, Oahu, HI)
No. 45 – Grand Traverse Resort and Spa (Acme, MI)
No. T-47 – Indian Wells Golf Resort (Indian Wells, CA)
To determine the overall rankings, the ratings that were received by each facility in each of the 13 performance categories were totaled and then balanced to fit on a 100 point scale.
Contact:
Bret Hopman
Bret_Hopman@condenast.com
212-286-2059
