Quaker Ridge Golf Club

Quaker Ridge returned to our list of America’s 100 Greatest Courses in 2013 thanks to major revisions by Gil Hanse that included removal of many trees and the rebuilding of bunkers; Hanse remains the consulting architect as the club is fine-tuning this A.W. Tillinghast design each year. This includes reclaiming putting surfaces back to Tillinghast dimensions, except on the sporty par-4 17th green, where a left-hand lobe that had been added by Frank Duane in 1964 was chopped off. Quaker’s strong suit has long been its powerful par-4s, such as the fourth hole with a collection of hazards needing to be navigated off the tee, the sixth, where tee shots must be squeezed between a creek and hillside and the drive-and-pitch 11th, where the green is girdled by a stream. Though Winged Foot's greens are widely considered some of the best in golf, don't sleep on the Tilly down the street.