New Golfweek rankings

[Jeff Shelman]

All,


The new Golfweek Top 100 Classic and Modern are in the April 2018 issue.


The lists have not yet, however, appeared on the website.


If you a subscriber, the issue is available through the Golfweek app. I would guess it will end up in mailboxes and on the site soon.

[Cal Seifert]

Any subscribers care to post it here?

[Matt Frey, PGA]

From the April 2018 issue.

Top 100 Classic:

• Pine Valley
• Cypress Point
• Shinnecock Hills
• Augusta National
• NGLA
• Oakmont
• Merion East
• Pebble Beach
• Fishers Island
• Chicago
• Crystal Downs
• Prairie Dunes
• Seminole
• Pinehurst No. 2
• Los Angeles North
• San Fransisco
• Winged Foot West
• Riviera
• Camargo
• Oakland Hills South
• Shoreacres
• Peachtree
• Old Town
• Plainfield
• Bethpage Black
• Somerset Hills
• The Country Club Composite
• Garden City
• Philadelphia Cricket Wissahickon
• Winged Foot East
• Southern Hills
• Quaker Ridge
• Myopia Hunt
• Maidstone
• California
• Pasatiempo
• Valley Montecito
• Olympic Lake
• Piping Rock
• Baltimore East
• Baltusrol Lower
• Yeamans Hall
• Newport
• Eastward Ho
• Wannamoisett
• Essex
• Inverness
• Scioto
• Milwaukee
• Kittansett
• Yale
• Olympia Fields North
• Interlachen
• Sleepy Hollow
• Brookside
• Ridgewood Championship
• Oak Hill East
• St. Louis
• Baltusrol Upper
• Aronimink
• Canterbury
• Old Elm
• Salem
• Lawsonia Links
• Colonial
• Fox Chapel
• White Bear Yacht
• Lancaster
• Mountain Lake
• Laurel Valley
• Homestead Cascades
• Whitinsville
• East Lake
• Augusta
• Moraine
• Bel-Air
• Franklin Hills
• NCR South
• Fenway
• Congressional Blue
• Creek
• Kirtland
• Sankaty Head
• Scranton
• Roaring Gap
• Skokie
• Misquamicut
• Monterey Peninsula Dunes
• Cherry Hills
• Charlotte
• Medinah No. 3
• Cedar Rapids
• St. George's
• Holston Hills
• Indianwood Old
• Hollywood
• Whippoorwill
• Minikahda
• Fairfield
• Wykagyl

Top 100 Modern:

• Sand Hills
• Pacific Dunes
• Friar's Head
• Ballyneal
• Old Macdonald
• Sebonack
• Whistling Straits Straits
• Bandon Dunes
• Shadow Creek
• Wade Hampton
• Muirfield Village
• Ocean Course
• The Golf Club
• Alotian
• Bandon Trails
• Kinloch
• Old Sandwich
• Pete Dye
• Rock Cattle Creek
• Pikewood National
• TPC Sawgrass Players Stadium
• Kingsley
• Honors Course
• Calusa Pines
• Boston
• Nanea
• Spyglass Hill
• Whispering Pines
• Galloway National
• Estancia
• Streamsong Black
• Dismal River Doak
• Colorado
• Gozzer Ranch
• Streamsong Red
• Monterey Peninsula Shore
• Bluejack National
• Oak Tree National
• Dallas National
• Huntsman Springs
• Shooting Star
• Sand Valley
• Arcadia Bluffs
• Chambers Bay
• Kapalua Plantation
• Double Eagle
• Desert Forest
• Dunes
• Gamble Sands
• Sweetens Cove
• Butler National
• Castle Pines
• Olde Farm
• Mountain Top
• Streamsong Blue
• Fallen Oak
• Pronghorn Fazio
• Harbour Town
• Atlantic
• Quail Hollow
• Spring Hill
• Mayacama
• Shelter Harbor
• Manele
• Bayonne
• Black Sheep
• Victoria National
• Martis Camp
• Forest Dunes Loop Red & Black
• Rim
• Grandfather
• Wolf Run
• Johns Island West
• Shoal Creek
• The Quarry at La Quinta
• Crooked Stick
• Hidden Creek
• Valhalla
• Long Cove
• Robert Trent Jones
• Diamond Creek
• Greywalls
• Clear Creek
• Hazeltine National
• Karsten Creek
• Blackwolf Run River
• Forest Highlands Canyon
• Sea Island Seaside
• Wild Horse
• Secession
• Ocean Forest
• Patriot
• Austin
• Tradition at La Quinta
• Eugene
• Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee
• Sage Valley
• Mossy Oak
• Erin Hills
• Trump National Bedminster Old

[Cal Seifert]

So nice to see Old Town all the way up there.  Place is amazing. 

[Kevin Neary]

Having been fortunate enough to play both the Upper and Lower at Baltusrol, why is the Lower ranked better than the Upper? I've always found the Upper more enjoyable, and architecturally more diverse, than the Lower.

[Cal Seifert]

Having been fortunate enough to play both the Upper and Lower at Baltusrol, why is the Lower ranked better than the Upper? I've always found the Upper more enjoyable, and architecturally more diverse, than the Lower.

Because it hosts major championships.

[Nigel Islam]

Hmm, I’m guessing Wolf Run in its current state is not the 72nd best modern course in the country. My buddy whose a (former and current) member is sitting here at work getting a kick that it’s ranked ahead of Crooked Stick.

[Scott Senior]

Having been fortunate enough to play both the Upper and Lower at Baltusrol, why is the Lower ranked better than the Upper? I've always found the Upper more enjoyable, and architecturally more diverse, than the Lower.

Because it hosts major championships.

+1

[Terry Lavin]

Old Elm gets some more props, as they say.

[Peter Pallotta]

I know there's no accounting for personal taste or for opinions gleaned solely from photos and write-ups, but while The Loop comes in at #69 I'd rather play *it* than all but 3 courses on the top 100 modern list 

[Sean_A]

I know there's no accounting for personal taste or for opinions gleaned solely from photos and write-ups, but while The Loop comes in at #69 I'd rather play *it* than all but 3 courses on the top 100 modern list

Pietro

I will go one better, only two courses on the modern list strike me as more appealing than The Loop from the outside looking in....which are they?

Ciao

[Peter Pallotta]

Oh, that's interesting and gratifying to me, Sean - for two reasons:
1 - because I value and appreciate your tastes & opinions, and
2 - because of my own limited experience with gca I'd assumed that my choice (for everybody else) crossed the line between the quixotic and the absurd.
In truth, I had to stretch to get to 3 courses: I had Ballyneal and Bandon Trails ahead of The Loop, but then added in Kingsley.
I am very curious about your two. Please share
Peter

[Tim Leahy]

Olympic #38? Why so low?

[Tim Martin]

I am a fan of Whitinsville but think it's much better suited closer to 100 than 70. When it bests courses like Sankaty Head, Augusta CC, Fenway, Wipporwill and Creek just to name five that come after it I call foul. I think 1 and 9 are standout holes and what lies in between are fun but not in the category of other Ross neighbors that start with W such as Wocester and Winchester which don't even make the list. There must have been a lot of visits by panelists since last year.

[Sean_A]

In truth, I had to stretch to get to 3 courses: I had Ballyneal and Bandon Trails ahead of The Loop, but then added in Kingsley.
I am very curious about your two. Please share
Peter

Pietro

I thought we might be talking about two of the same courses, but one ain't far off.  I am afraid I have gone Doak crazy....Ballyneal and Old Mac. Truth be told I have a far better chance of seeing Kingsley than my choices.  If I thought Apache Stronghold was in the type of nick worth travelling to see it would probably replace Old Mac. 

Ciao

[Peter Pallotta]

Thanks, S.
Fascinating that, from the outside looking in, you there and me here could land on the same spot(s):
for me, Ballyneal and the Loop were the only two definite ones....but I was too embarrassed even to to *think* 3 Doaks in a row and pick Old Mac (though I've been very intrigued by the notion of "re-imagined foundational archetypes"), and so I picked instead the C&C that has long appealed to me most because of the more 'confined spaces', Trails, and then a rocky, big-boned and hearty alternative in Kingsley.
   

[Sean_A]

Thanks, S.
Fascinating that, from the outside looking in, you there and me here could land on the same spot(s):
for me, Ballyneal and the Loop were the only two definite ones....but I was too embarrassed even to to *think* 3 Doaks in a row and pick Old Mac (though I've been very intrigued by the notion of "re-imagined foundational archetypes"), and so I picked instead the C&C that has long appealed to me most because of the more 'confined spaces', Trails, and then a rocky, big-boned and hearty alternative in Kingsley.
   

Jeepers...I lie...there is a 3rd course and it is a C&C (!)...though I would go with Friars Head. For some reason I often forget that Friars Head is modern...strange that.

Ciao

[Ryan Hillenbrand]

Glad to see Cedar Rapids make the list based on the passion for the course of many posters. Surprised Davenport C.C. didn’t show up though.

[Scott Szabo]

Happy to see Ballyneal where it is, but I'm a bit of a homer.

[Frank M]

Is Prairie Club Dunes not on the modern list? I honestly think it might be the most underappreciated golf course in NA. Sad really.

[jeffwarne]

Palmetto not in the Top 100 classic


credibility issue for GOLFWEEK

[mike_beene]

Austin CC or Austin Golf Club?

[Sean_A]

Palmetto not in the Top 100 classic

This surprises me...a ton.

Ciao

[Matt MacIver]

Bluejack Nat’l getting a good opening ranking.  Too bad Black Mesa isn’t in good enough shape to be in the top 100.  Both Cabot courses too new to rate?  How high will SS Black go?  There are two new ultra- privates being built in GA/SC opening soon that reportedly will be solid. 

[Stewart Abramson]

  Both Cabot courses too new to rate? 

Matt - I don't think The Donald has yet annexed Cape Breton Island    although he might like to if he could get playing privileges at those two courses