ORLANDO, Fla., (April 22, 2010) – Golfweek magazine – the most authentic, authoritative and independent voice in golf – will release its 2010 Golfweek’s Best Tour Courses You Can Play list as part of its upcoming April 23 issue. ÌâåÂMarking the third year the magazine has conducted this ranking, the 2010 list features the top 50 courses on the professional golf circuit that allow any golfer to tee it up at the same places where the pros play.
“In a year when three of the men’s professional majors are being held on public-access courses, it seems appropriate for Golfweek to celebrate the best PGA, LPGA, Champions and Nationwide Tour courses that anyone can walk on and play for pay,” said Bradley S. Klein, national director of Golfweek’s Best Courses ratings program. “The beauty of our top-50 list is that it showcases the extent to which professional golf today takes place on publicly accessible courses.”
The top spots on the 2010 Golfweek’s Best Tour Courses You Can Play list are held by the host sites of the PGA Tour’s next three major tournaments: frontrunner Pebble Beach Golf Links (Pebble Beach, Calif.) will play host to the 2010 U.S. Open Championship, St. Andrew’s Old Course (St. Andrews, Scotland) – ranked No. 2 on the list – will be the site of this year’s British Open Championship and, at No. 3, the Straits Course at Whistling Straits (Kohler, Wis.) will be home to the 2010 PGA Championship.
In addition to these iconic courses, the 2010 Golfweek’s Best Tour Courses You Can Play list also features exciting newcomers that are debuting brand-new events this year, including No. 10 Fallen Oak (Saucier, Miss.), host of the Champions Tour’s Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic, and the Seaside Course at Sea Island (St. Simons Island, Ga.) at No. 11, which will host the PGA Tour’s McGladrey Classic.
To produce the Golfweek’s Best Tour Courses You Can Play list, a nationwide team of more than 550 evaluators rated each layout on the basis of 10 criteria, including routing, conditioning, variety and memorability of holes. The result is an average of scores, which then dictates a course’s overall ranking.
Visit Top100.Golfweek.com/GolfweeksBest to view the complete list of Golfweek’s Best Tour Courses You Can Play.
About Golfweek’s Best Ratings
Since beginning its rating system in 1997, Golfweek has developed the most respected ranking structure in the industry. Every year, Golfweek’s nationwide team of course raters, which currently boasts more than 550 evaluators, survey more than 2,200 courses – rating each nominated course on the basis of Golfweek’s 10 strict standards of evaluation. Collectively, Golfweek raters have turned in more than 45,000 votes. Golfweek’s Best Courses lists include: Modern, Classic, New, Casino, Municipal, Residential, Resort, Caribbean & Mexico, Courses You Can Play and Tour Courses You Can Play. The full criteria for evaluating the golf courses may be found at Top100.Golfweek.com/GolfweeksBest.
About Golfweek
Founded in 1975, Golfweek is the most authentic, authoritative and independent voice in golf. Reaching more than 1.3 million readers each week, the magazine delivers the most complete news and information about the game, its players and the golf lifestyle – all to golf’s most important audience. The Golfweek brand also extends beyond the print publication to include Golfweek.com, Golfweek OnDemand, GolfweekHomes.com, Golfweek Custom Media and such industry wire services as The Golf Wire, The Apparel Wire and The Tour Van. Golfweek is part of Turnstile Publishing Company, one of the nation’s leading media brands specializing in high-end publications for active and affluent audiences. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Orlando, Fla., Turnstile Publishing Company is also the parent corporation of Community Media Holdings LLC and the TurfNet Media Network, as well as such publications as Art Calendar, The Seminole Voice and The Winter Park/Maitland Observer.
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