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    Medalist Golf Club

    Medalist Golf Club

    9908 SE Cottage Ln

    Hobe Sound, FL 33455-6355

    United States

    Overview

    Medalist is a long, demanding course that can stretch out to roughly 7,600 yards, a necessary requirement when the membership includes Tiger Woods, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka and many more of the world’s top professional players. They like Medalist for the relaxed atmosphere and local convenience, but also because it’s a demanding driving course—the holes circle through an undeveloped sanctuary of wetlands and low scrub vegetation one parcel south of McArthur (No. 157) and are buffeted by the strong Atlantic crosswinds. Pete Dye designed Medalist with co-founder Greg Norman (this was one of Norman’s first U.S. designs), and the course features Dye’s S-shaped holes curling around sand buffers, slinky ground contours and small, low-profile greens that bleed into short-grass surrounds. The course had undergone numerous modifications and formalizations in the late 1990s and early 2000s, some by Norman, but Bobby Weed reclaimed much of original Dye character during a 2015 renovation.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 7157
    Slope 142
    Facility Type Private
    Year Opened 1995
    Designer Pete Dye, ASGCA/Greg Norman/Bobby Weed (2015)

    Awards

    100 Greatest the Second 100
    Best Courses in Every State

    Ranking history:

    Second 100 Greatest: Ranked since 2023.
    Highest ranking: No. 181, 2023-'24.
    2025-'26 ranking: 188th.

    Best in State: Ranked inside the top 10, 1997-2001, 2025-'26. Ranked 11th, 2017-'18. Ranked 12th, 2023-'24. Ranked 14th, 2021-'22. Ranked 15th, 2019-'20. Ranked inside the top 15, 2005. Ranked inside the top 20, 2003, 2007. Ranked 25th, 2015-'16. Ranked 29th, 2013-'14.
    Previous ranking: 12th.
    2025-'26 ranking: 10th.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    4.3

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    7.167
    Character
    7.3335
    Challenge
    7.5706
    Layout Variety
    7.2121
    Fun
    7.009
    Aesthetics
    7.2111
    Conditioning
    7.7715

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