Jockey Club: Red

South America’s best golf course came thanks to a special call from Argentina’s prestigious Jockey Club, which decided to add golf to its sporting activities on land adjacent to its race track. The club called the USGA for advice on creating unique golf, and the association recommended Alister MacKenzie, having just completed work at Augusta National Golf Club. MacKenzie stayed in Argentina for a few months to oversee the work on the Jockey Club’s two courses, the Red and the Blue. The final three holes are fantastic: The 16th is similar to Augusta’s eighth hole, though a par 4, but with no greenside bunkers and hillocks and bumps to navigate or utilize on your approach. The par-3 17th hole is a memorable slight dogleg left one-shotter that mandates you clear a tree protecting the green. The great doctor paid homage to the Old Course at St. Andrews with his green at the home hole, with a valley of sin gobbling golf balls off the front of the green.