Nine Golf Courses We Can’t Wait To Play in 2020
Whether you’re putting above the Pacific Ocean or 20 minutes from St. Andrews, there’s no shortage of new places to dream of chasing that little white ball.
Source: Bandon Dunes Golf Resort
Golf architecture, to use today’s jargon, is in its 2.0 phase. Fewer courses are being built than during the boom of the 2000s, but what we are getting now are leaner, cleaner, and, at least environmentally speaking, greener experiences. Today’s designs have more in common with golf’s original course designs in Scotland and the British Isles than they do with the suburban country clubs at which many of us grew up playing.
If you haven’t already booked your golfing trip for 2020, here are the openings that we’re most looking forward to next year—whether you prefer the coast of Oregon, the middle of Missouri, or 20 minutes from St. Andrews.