Best golf courses: USA - Midwest (Great Lakes)

Dr Michael J. Hurdzan

Warren Henderson in collabortion with Rick Smith.

Dana Fry and Jason Straka of Fry/Straka Design.

Pete Dye

Stanley Thompson

Arthur Hills in collaboration with owner Stephen Kircher.

Dean Refram

Tom Fazio

Original design by William "Willie" Watson from Fife, Scotland (1925); revised by Ray Didier (1961) and renovated by Bruce Hepner (2016).

Pete Dye & Tim Liddy

The Ackerman-Allen course (formerly known as Purdue South course, then Ackerman Hills from 1998) was designed by William "Bill" Diddel (1934). Redesign by Larry Packard (1968), and further improved in 1998. Improved and renovated by Pete Dye (2015).

The Kampen-Cosler course (formerly North course) was substantially redesigned by Pete Dye (1994).

Wilderness Valley course designed by Al Watrous (1971). Black Forest course designed by Tom Doak (1991).

Rees Jones

Pete Dye

Pete Dye

An Arnold Palmer Signature Course.

Arthur Hills & Steve Forrest

Joe Salemi

Robert Trent Jones Sr

Arthur Hills

William Newcomb, Jim Flick and E. & S.Kircher

William Newcomb, Jim Flick and E. & S.Kircher

William Newcomb designed both courses at Boyne Mountain: Alpine course (1970), Monument course (1985).

Husband/wife team of Pete & Alice Dye

Rick Jacobson of Jacobson Design

Originally designed by George Hansen (1929). Partially redesigned by Andy North and Roger Packard.

A Jack Nicklaus Signature Design

Uncle/nephew team of George & Tom Fazio.

Original design by Seth Raynor & Charles Banks (1925); later minor improvements by Tom Doak (1984, 2000).

Herbert Strong (1922); modifications by Bruce Hepner (2016).

Original design by Roger Packard (1989), updated by Jacobson Design (2003).

Bob Lohmann & Mike Benkusky (front-nine opened in 2001, back-nine in 2004).

Original design by "the father of American golf course architecture" Charles Blair Macdonald (1893); improved by Seth Raynor (1923).

The Cog Hill course designers:
No.1 Blue - David McIntosh (1927).
No.2 Ravines - David McIntosh & Bert Coghill (1929), later redesigned by Joe Lee & Rocky Roquemore.
No.3 Red - Dick Wilson (1963).
No.4 Dubsdread - Dick Wilson & Joe Lee (1964), later redesigned by Rees Jones (2008).

The Cog Hill course designers:
No.1 Blue - David McIntosh (1927).
No.2 Ravines - David McIntosh & Bert Coghill (1929), later redesigned by Joe Lee & Rocky Roquemore.
No.3 Red - Dick Wilson (1963).
No.4 Dubsdread - Dick Wilson & Joe Lee (1964), later redesigned by Rees Jones (2008).

Current layout designed by William S. Flynn (1928).

Husband & wife team of Pete & Alice Dye.

Harry Bowers

Dr. Alister MacKenzie in collaboration with Perry Maxwell.

Original design by William Langford & Theodore Moreau (1922); restored by Bobby Weed (2015).

Tom Weiskopf & Jay Morrish

Chris Lutzke in collaboration with Pete Dye.

Roger Packard in collaboration with Andy North.

Roger Packard

Roger Packard

Jerry Matthews

Greg Norman

Hurdzan/Fry Design (Dr Michael J. Hurdzan & Dana Fry) working with golf writer and course architect Ron Whitten.

South course: original design by Bert Way (1929); redesign by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1960).
North course: Robert Trent Jones Sr (1969).
Fazio course: Tom Fazio (2001; 2021).

Tom Weiskopf

Tom Doak (Renaissance Golf Design)

Pete Dye & Tim Liddy

Pete Dye & brother Roy Dye designed the original Lake and River nines.

Donald Ross

Pete Dye (2009). Located 2 mi SE of the Dye course is the resort's original course (Valley Links), an 18-hole layout designed by Tom Bendelow (1907) and later revamped into a 9-hole layout (by Lee Schmidt, 2006) when ground was given up to build the casino.

Original design by Donald Ross (1917), revamped by Lee Schmidt (2006). Located 2.2 mi NE of the Ross course is the resort's original course (Valley Links), an 18-hole layout designed by Tom Bendelow (1907) and later revamped into a 9-hole layout (by Lee Schmidt, 2006) when ground was given up to build the casino.

An Arnold Palmer Signature Course designed by Arnold Palmer & Ed Seay.

A Gary Player Signature Course. First nine opened in 1995, second nine in 2000.

A Lee Trevino Signature Course designed by Lee Trevino & William Graves Design Co.

Tom Fazio

Pete Dye

Robert Bruce Harris

Original design by Pete Dye & Jack Nicklaus (1970); substantial redsign by Bob Cupp (1996) and updated by Bob Lohmann (2006).

A Jack Nicklaus Signature Design

A Gary Player Signature Design

Original design by Donald Ross (1929), later revised by Jack Kidwell.

William Mitchell

GLV West (Darl Scott family, 1963); GLV East (Darl, Charles & Jim Scott, 1973).

Designed by Eric Iverson, Brian Schneider, Brian Slawnik and Don Placek of Tom Doak's Renaissance Golf Design.

Stonehedge South (Charles Scott, 1988); Stonehedge North (Charles & Jon Scott, 1995).

A Jack Nicklaus Signature Design

Dick Nugent

Dick Nugent

Jerry Matthews

John F. Robinson

Arthur Hills & Steve Forrest

John Harbottle III

Craig Schreiner

Bruce Matthews III

Robert Trent Jones Sr.

Original design by Jim Soutar and Paul “Pooch” Harrell (1957). Significant redesign by Steve Smyers & Fuzzy Zoeller (2020).

Original design dates from 1903. Course remodelled by Donald Ross (1919); modifications by George & Tom Fazio (1979), Arthur Hills (1999) and Andrew Green (2018).

Charles "Hugh" Alison, long-time design associate of Harry Colt.

Kevin Aldridge designed the Gailes (1992) and Blackshire (2001) courses; Bruce & Jerry Matthews designed the Seradella course (1969).

Original design by William Boyce Langford and Theodore J. Moreau (1930); renovated by Ron Forse (2000).

Rocky Roquemore

Hurdzan/Fry Design (Dr Michael J. Hurdzan & Dana Fry).

Jeff Gorney

Tom Doak

Jerry Matthews

Donald Ross

Pete Dye in collaboration with his wife Alice. The great man's first ever 18-hole layout.

Heritage course: original 9-hole layout designed by William B. Langford & Theodore J. Moreau (1926), expanded to 18-holes by David Gill (1969). Greywalls course: designed by Mike DeVries.

Arthur Hills

No.1 course: designed by Tom Bendelow (1924).
No.2 course: original design by Tom Bendelow (1927); renovation by Rees Jones (2017).
No.3 course: original design by Tom Bendelow (1928); redesign by Rees Jones (2003, 2009).

Course designed by Harry Colt & Charles "Hugh" Alison (1927); modifications by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1974), Arthur Hills (2002) and Tom Doak (2015).

Alex "Nipper" Campbell (1930); restored by Keith Foster (2015).

A Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course designed by Jack Nicklaus, with input from Desmond Muirhead and Pete Dye.

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

Original design by Lawrence "Larry" Packard; modifications by Arthur Hills (1999).

Dick Wilson designed both the North and South courses.

Dave Relford & Matt Mootz

South course: original design by Donald Ross (1918); modifications by Arthur Hills (1987), Rees Jones (2006) and Gil Hanse (2019).
North course: original design by Donald Ross (1922); redesign by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1969); modifications by Arthur Hills & Steve Forrest (2014).

Original design by Dr Alister MacKenzie (1939); renovated by Jack Nicklaus (2005).

North course designed by Willie Park Jr (1923); modifications by Mark Mungeam (2014). South course designed by Tom Bendelow (1915) and renovated by Steve Smyers (2007).

Robert Trent Jones Jr.

Ken Kavanaugh

Rick Robbins & Gary Koch (Tribute course, 2001); William H. Diddel (Classic course, 1958).

Original 18-hole design by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1964); Rees Jones (Robert's son) designed the third nine (1995).

Kris Schumacker & Mike DeVries of DeVries Designs.

Original 9-hole course laid out by Cardinal Mundelein and extended to 18-holes in 1929 by William S. Flynn. Course significantly redesigned and remodelled by Joe Lee, Rocky Roquemore and Joe Jemsek (1985).

Pete Dye

Robert Trent Jones II (lead designer Bruce Charlton).

Robert Trent Jones Jr.

Ron Kern

Brian Huntley

Arthur Hills and design associate Chris Wilczynski.

Arthur Hills & Steve Forrest

Jerry Rich (RHF's owner) & Greg Martin

Tim Liddy

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

David McLay-Kidd

Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw.

Tom Doak

Crafted by Tom Doak, to recreate Charles Blair Macdonald's long lost gem (The Lido GC, Long Island, NY).

Original design by Donald Ross (1916); updated by Dick Wilson (early 1960s) and renovation by Jack Nicklaus & Dr Michael J. Hurdzan (2008).

Robert Trent Jones II (lead designers Bruce Charlton and Jay Blasi).

Arthur Hills designed the original 18-hole Shaker Run course (1979), comprising the Red (formerly Woodlands) and Green (Lakeside) nines. The White-nine (formerly Meadows) was designed by Dr Michael Hurdzan & Dana Fry (1999).

Tom Weiskopf

Arnold Palmer & Ed Seay

Arthur Hills

Seth Raynor

Stanley Thompson

Jerry Matthews

Jeff Osterfeld (designer & owner).

Arthur Hills

Original design by Tom Jones & Allen Sternberg; redesigned by Tim Liddy (late-2000s).

Paul Albanese of Michigan-based Albanese & Lutzke.

Jack Nicklaus

Rick Jacobsen

Rees Jones

Robert Trent Jones II (lead designer Bruce Charlton).

Jerry Matthews & Paul Albanese

Original nine designed by Roy Robertson. Revamped and extended to 18 holes by Pete Dye (1963).

D.A. Weibring

Andy North & Roger Packard

Tom Fazio

Robert Trent Jones Sr.

Rick Smith

Hurdzan/Fry (Dr Michael J. Hurdzan & Dana Fry) working with PGA tour player Tom Lehman (a Tom Lehman Signature Course).

Jim Engh

Jim Engh

Robert Trent Jones II (lead designer Bruce Charlton).

Original design by Dr Alister MacKenzie (1931); renovated by Arthur Hills (1994).

Tom Fazio

Arthur Hills

Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw

Arthur Hills

Hurdzan/Fry Design (Dr Michael J. Hurdzan & Dana Fry).

Pete Dye

Pete Dye

Hurdzan/Fry Design (Dr Michael Hurdzan & Dana Fry).

Edmund B. "Ed" Ault

Steve Smyers

Gene Bates