America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses
美国百佳高尔夫球场《golf digest》 2015年2月份发布，高缘网编辑配图
CAPTION TEXT BY RON WHITTEN
PHOTO BY DOM FURORE
1. (2) AUGUSTA NATIONAL G.C.奥古斯塔
Augusta, Ga. / Alister Mackenzie & Bobby Jones (1933)
7,435 yards, Par 72 | Points: 72.1589
No club has tinkered with its golf course as often or as effectively over the decades as has Augusta National Golf Club, mainly to keep it competitive for the annual Masters Tournament, an event it has conducted since 1934, with time off during WWII. All that tinkering has resulted in an amalgamation of design ideas, with a routing by Alister Mackenzie and Bobby Jones, some Perry Maxwell greens, some Trent Jones water hazards, some Jack Nicklaus mounds and swales and, most recently, extensive rebunkering and tree planting by Tom Fazio.
2. (1) PINE VALLEY G.C.松树谷
Pine Valley, N.J. / George Crump & H.S. Colt (1918)
7,057 yards, Par 70 | Points: 71.9818
A genuine original, its unique character forged from the sandy pine barrens of southwest Jersey. Founder George Crump had help from architects H.S. Colt, A.W. Tillinghast, George C. Thomas Jr. and Walter Travis. Hugh Wilson (of Merion fame) and his brother Alan finished the job. Pine Valley blends all three schools of golf design — penal, heroic and strategic — throughout the course, often times on a single hole.
 3. (3) CYPRESS POINT CLUB 柏树点
Pebble Beach / Alister Mackenzie (1928)
6,524 yards, Par 72 | Points: 69.4448
Glamorous Cypress Point, Alister Mackenzie's masterpiece woven through cypress, sand dunes and jagged coastline, wasn't always the darling of America's 100 Greatest. Golf Digest demoted it to the Fifth Ten back in the early 1970s, saying, "It's not surprising that good players might find Cypress Point wanting: it has several easy holes and a weak finisher." Our panel has since changed its collective opinion. In the 2000s, member Sandy Tatum, the former USGA president who christened Cypress Point as the Sistine Chapel of golf, convinced the club not to combat technology by adding new back tees, but instead make a statement by celebrating its original architecture. So Cypress remains timeless, if short, its charm helped in part by superintendent Jeff Markow, who re-established Mackenzie's unique bunkering with the help of old photographs.
4. (4) SHINNECOCK HILLS G.C.辛尼克山
Southampton, N.Y. / William Flynn (1931)
7,041 yards, Par 70 | Points: 69.2522
Generally considered to be the earliest links in America, heavily remodeled twice by C.B. Macdonald, then replaced (except for three holes) by William S. Flynn in the early 1930s. It's so sublime that its architecture hasn't really been fiddled with in nearly 50 years, although the team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw have made several changes, including restoration of a massive waste area on the sixth hole, to prepare Shinnecock for the 2018 U.S. Open.
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5. (6) MERION G.C. (EAST)美浓（东场）
Ardmore, Pa. / Hugh Wilson (1912)
6,886 yards, Par 70 | Points: 68.2949
What a treat it was to see Merion East, long considered the best course on the tightest acreage in America, host the U.S. Open in 2013. Today's generation of big hitters couldn't conquer the little old course, couldn't consistently hit its twisting fairways, which are edged by creeks, hodge-podge rough and OB stakes and couldn't consistently hit its canted greens edged by bunkers that stare back. It's a certainty that it won't take another 32 years for the U.S. Open to return to Merion.
6. (5) OAKMONT C.C.奥克芒
Oakmont, Pa. / Henry Fownes (1903)
7,255 yards, Par 71 | Points: 68.1868
Once thousands of trees (planted in the 1960s) were removed, Oakmont's original penal design was re-established, with the game's most nasty, notorious bunkers (founder-architect H.C. Fownes staked out bunkers whenever and wherever he saw a player hit an offline shot), deep drainage ditches and ankle-deep rough. Oakmont also has the game's swiftest putting surfaces, which will likely be slowed down for the upcoming U.S. Open in 2016.
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7. (7) PEBBLE BEACH G. LINKS 圆石滩
Pebble Beach / Jack Neville & Douglas Grant (1919)
6,828 yards, Par 72 | Points: 67.6226
Not just the greatest meeting of land and sea in American golf, but the most extensive one, too, with nine holes perched immediately above the crashing Pacific surf -- the fourth through 10th, plus the 17th and 18th. Pebble's sixth through eighth are golf's real Amen Corner, with a few Hail Marys thrown in over a ocean cove on eight from atop a 75-foot-high bluff. Pebble will host another U.S. Amateur in 2018, and its sixth U.S. Open in 2019.
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8. (11) NATIONAL G. LINKS OF AMERICA 国家林克斯
Southampton, N.Y. / C.B. Macdonald (1911)
6,935 yards, Par 72 | Points: 66.9500
This is where Seth Raynor got his start. A civil engineer by training, he surveyed holes for architect C.B. Macdonald, who scientifically designed National Golf Links as a fusion of his favorite features from grand old British golf holes. National Golf Links is a true links containing a marvelous collection of holes. As the 2013 Walker Cup reminded us, Macdonald's versions are actually superior in strategy to the originals, which is why National's design is still studied by golf architects today, its holes now replicated elsewhere.
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9. (8) WINGED FOOT G.C. (WEST) 翼脚（西场）
Mamaroneck, N.Y. / A.W. Tillinghast (1923)
7,258 yards, Par 72 | Points: 66.6801
Gone are all the Norway Spruce that once squeezed every fairway of Winged Foot West. It's now gloriously open and playable, at least until one reaches the putting surfaces, perhaps the finest set of green contours the versatile architect A.W. Tillinghast ever did, soon to be restored to original parameters by architect Gil Hanse. The greens look like giant mushrooms, curled and slumped around the edges, proving that as a course architect, Tillinghast was not a fun guy. Winged Foot West will host the 2020 U.S. Open
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10. (10) FISHERS ISLAND CLUB 渔人岛
Fishers Island, N.Y. / Seth Raynor & Charles Banks (1926)
6,566 yards, Par 72 | Points: 66.4241
Probably the consummate design of architect Seth Raynor, who died in early 1926, before the course had opened. His steeply-banked bunkers and geometric greens harmonize perfectly with the linear panoramas of the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound. The quality of the holes is also superb, with all Raynor's usual suspects, including not one but two Redan greens, one on a par 4.
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