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Iconic Golf Courses of the World

Name: Iconic Golf Courses of the World
Creator: Community curated

Augusta, St Andrews, Pebble Beach, Pine Valley — pick the fairway you'd sell your clubs to play once.

Iconic Golf Courses Of The World is a structured sports dataset with 20 entries. Its fields include Course, Country, Designer. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.

Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.

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Source:Community curated

Updated:4/9/2026

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Dataset details

Table scope: All 20 rows
Fields: 6 columns
Source: Community curated
Data updated: Apr 9, 2026

Included fields: Course, Country, Designer, Opened, Par, and 1 more.

The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.

Preview observations

Opened span: 1552 to 1998; Across 20 preview rows
Par range: 70 to 72; Across 20 preview rows

Useful for

Comparing Course, Country, and Designer across sports entries
Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 20 downloadable records

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Course↕	Country↕	Designer↕	Opened↕	Par↕	Known For↕
Augusta National Golf Club	United States	Alister MacKenzie / Bobby Jones	1,933	72	Home of the Masters — Amen Corner, azaleas, the Green Jacket
Old Course at St Andrews	Scotland	Nature / Old Tom Morris	1,552	72	The Home of Golf — Swilcan Bridge, Road Hole, public-play links
Pebble Beach Golf Links	United States	Jack Neville / Douglas Grant	1,919	72	Monterey cliffside holes 7-10 — the greatest meeting of land and sea in golf
Pine Valley Golf Club	United States	George Crump / H.S. Colt	1,918	70	Routinely ranked #1 in the world — sandy waste, pines, nearly private
Cypress Point Club	United States	Alister MacKenzie	1,928	72	The iconic par-3 16th over the Pacific — ultra-exclusive Monterey peninsula
Royal County Down	Northern Ireland	Old Tom Morris	1,889	71	Mourne Mountains backdrop, blind shots, gorse-lined fairways — classic links
Muirfield (Honourable Company)	Scotland	Old Tom Morris / H.S. Colt	1,891	71	Host of 16 Open Championships — the fairest links test on the rota
Royal Melbourne (West)	Australia	Alister MacKenzie	1,931	72	Sandbelt masterpiece — Dr Mac's greatest design outside Augusta
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club	United States	William Flynn	1,891	70	Hamptons US Open venue with windswept fescue and classic Flynn routing
Oakmont Country Club	United States	Henry Fownes	1,903	70	The hardest par-70 in America — Church Pews bunker, lightning greens
Turnberry (Ailsa)	Scotland	Mackenzie Ross	1,906	71	Ailsa Craig views, the Duel in the Sun (Watson vs Nicklaus 1977)
Carnoustie Golf Links	Scotland	Allan Robertson	1,842	72	Carnasty — brutal finishing holes and Jean Van de Velde's Barry Burn collapse
Royal Dornoch	Scotland	Old Tom Morris / John Sutherland	1,886	70	Pilgrimage links in the Highlands, inspiration for Donald Ross courses
Merion Golf Club (East)	United States	Hugh Wilson	1,912	70	Wicker baskets on flagsticks — Hogan's 1-iron, Jones' Grand Slam
Royal Birkdale	England	George Lowe / Hawtree & Taylor	1,889	70	Open Championship venue — dune corridors of English links golf
Winged Foot Golf Club (West)	United States	A.W. Tillinghast	1,923	72	Massacre at Winged Foot (1974 US Open) — Bryson's 2020 win at 6-under won by wedges
Sawgrass (Stadium Course)	United States	Pete Dye	1,980	72	Home of the Players Championship — the island green par-3 17th
Whistling Straits	United States	Pete Dye	1,998	72	Lake Michigan links, 2021 Ryder Cup — Dustin Johnson's record rout
Valderrama	Spain	Robert Trent Jones Sr	1,974	71	First continental-Europe Ryder Cup host (1997), cork oaks and strategic bunkers
Hirono Golf Club	Japan	Charles Alison	1,932	72	Asia's finest classic course — golden-age design near Kobe