A selection of most important courses, decade by decade
Text by Ron WhittenPhotography by Stephen Szurlej
1890s
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, N.Y.
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, N.Y.
After a second nine was opened in 1895, it became the first 18-hole course to host a U.S. Open in 1896. C.B. Macdonald remodeled the course in 1917, then William S. Flynn built a new one on the same site in 1931.
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- Merion Golf Club,
- Seminole Golf Club,
- Bethpage State Park,
- Peachtree Golf Club,
- Torrey Pines Golf Course,
- Hazeltine National Golf Club,
- Muirfield Village Golf Club,
- The Links at Spanish Bay,
- Whistling Straits,
- Sebonack Golf Club,
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