Best golf courses: USA - Mid Atlantic

David Heatwole

Rick Jacobson

Allen Liddicoat (owner) and David Horne

East course: original layout by A. W. Tillinghast (1926); modifications by Brian Silva (1991), and restoration by Keith Foster (2015).
West course: opened in 1962; redesigned by Bob Cupp and Tom Kite (1990); renovation by Keith Foster (2012).

West course designed by Russell Roberts (1989); East course designed by Charles Priestly (1999).

Original 18-hole design by Jack Nicklaus; back-nine loop closed in 2020.

An Arnold Palmer Signature Course.

Jack Nicklaus, in collaboration with Rick Jacobson.

Original design by Bill Love in collaboration with owner Rob Tunnell; later modifications by Brian Ault of Ault-Clark Associates. Duneside-nine (under construction) designed by Cary Bickler.

Rick Jacobson

Original design by Fred Findlay. Redesigned by Tom Clark (of Ault, Clark & Associates) in collaboration with Curtis Strange.

Thomas E. "Tom" Clark (of Ault, Clark & Associates)

Original design by Lindsay Ervin (1984). Improvements made by Pete Dye & Assocs (2005). Complete redesign by Love Golf Design (2019; lead designer Scot Sherman).

Thomas E. "Tom" Clark (of Ault, Clark & Associates) in collaboration with Curtis Strange.

Pete Dye

Rick Jacobson

Robert Trent Jones Sr.

Geoff Cornish

Deane Beman & Bobby Weed

Tom Fazio

Blue course: Original design by Devereux Emmet (1924); later revisions by Tom Winton, Donald Ross & Alfred Tull. Substantially redesigned by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1957); renovation and further changes by Rees Jones (1989 & 2010).
Gold course: original design by Devereux Emmet (1924); substantial redesign by uncle-nephew team of George & Tom Fazio (1976); renovated by Arthur Hills (2000).

Dr Michael J. Hurdzan

Walter Travis

Father/son team of Ellis & Dan Maples designed Ford Colony's original Marsh Hawk course (1985). Dan Maples designed the Blue Heron (1999) and Blackheath (1999) courses.

Nick Price & Steve Smyers

Cobb course designed by George Cobb (1973). Stonehaven course (2003) and Woodhaven course (2010) designed by Tom Clark of Ault, Clark & Associates.

Joel Weiman (of McDonald & Sons)

Joel Weiman (of McDonald & Sons) in collaboration with Jim Furyk.

Original design by Robert Trent Jones Sr with later modifications by his son Rees Jones (1997 and 2016).

Rees Jones

Original design by Seth Raynor (1924); modernised by Jack Nicklaus (1978) in preparation for the course hosting the 1979 Ryder Cup.

Original nine-hole design by Alexander H. Findlay (1911); redesign by Seth Raynor (1923). Reworked and expanded to 18 holes by Dick Wilson (1923), and redesigned by Bob Cupp & Sam Snead (1999).

Original design by Charles Blair Macdonald and Seth Raynor; restored and remodelled by Lester George (2007); further modifications by Steve Wenzloff (2010) and Keith Foster (2016).

Joe Lee

Arthur Hills

Fred Couples & Gene Bates

Original design by William S. Flynn (1923); renovation by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1961); modifications by Wayne Morrison & Tom Paul (2005).

Original six-hole course (1892), extended to 18 holes by Donald Ross (1901); later modifications by William S. Flynn (1923) and Rees Jones (1994).

Original design by Tom Fazio (2001); updated by Lester George (2014).

Original nine-hole design by Fred Findlay (1948); extended to 18-holes in the 1950s. Modified by Arnold Palmer (1992); complete redesign by Pete Dye (2013).

Joel Weiman

Arnold Palmer & Ed Seay

Pete Dye

Lester George & Vinny Giles.

John LaFoy

Jeff Potts

Robert Trent Jones Jr.

Greg Norman

Bill Love

Arthur Hills

A Hale Irwin Signature Design, created in collaboration with golf architect Todd Schoeder.

Original 9-hole course (built in 2010 and known as Westham GC) was completely redesigned and extended to 18-holes by Nicklaus Design in association with Tom Clark (2015).

An Arthur Hills Signature Design

Bob Lohmann & Mike Benkusky

Gus Hook (Baltimore Parks Superintendent in the 1930s).

Joe Lee

Brian Ault of Ault-Clark Associates.

Seaside course (William & David Gordon, 1959) / Newport Bay course (Lester George, 1998).

Robert Trent Jones Sr.

Jones course: designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1970; formerly called the Speidel course).
Palmer course: designed by Arnold Palmer (2000; formerly called the Klieves course).
Crispin course: designed by Robert Biery (1950).

Original design by Ellis Maples (1972); updated by his son Dan Maples and his grandson Brad.

Tim Freeland

P.B. Dye

Pete Dye

Original course designed by Brian Ault & Tom Clark (1998); substantially redesigned by Pete Dye (2005).

Designed by owners J. Robert "Bob" Gwynne & John Raese, with input from golf professionals Dow Finsterwald and Johnny Pott.

Sam Snead (his only design) in collaboration with Ed Carton (formerly of the Tom Fazio design group).

A Jack Nicklaus Signature Design

Donald Steel

Lindsay B. Ervin designed both the River and Lakes courses.

A Gary Player Signature Course

A Gary Player Signature Course

Tom Doak

Keith Foster

A Gary Player Signature Course

Original design by Robert Trent Jones Sr. (1991); modifications by Kyle Phillips (2014).

Jack Nicklaus

Mike Stranz

Father/son team of Pete & P.B. Dye.

An Arnold Palmer Signature Course.

Ed Carton

Mike Stranz

An Arnold Palmer Signature Course.

Tom Jackson

Redesign of original nine-hole course and extension to 18 holes by Bob Cupp (1988).

Original design by Ault-Clark Associates; redesigned by PGA Tour Design Services (2008).

Rees Jones

Pete Dye in consultation with Curtis Strange.

P.B. Dye

Course designed by Gene Bates in consultation with Fred Couples.

J. Michael Poellot & Ernie Els

Arthur Hills & Steve Forrest

South course designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1960); renovated by Keith Foster (2008). North course designed by Dick Wilson (1961).

Ellis Maples

Rees Jones designed the Monocan & Shamokin-nines (1988) and the Tuckahoe-nine (1998).

Brian T. Ault (of Ault, Clark & Associates).