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The best practice facilities in golf, ranked

Stephen Szurlej
What makes a great practice facility? An assortment of target greens, launch monitor technology and stunning views all earn points, but perhaps the best criterion is that a great practice facility makes you want to practice. Whatever its special quality, a top-tier range motivates and ignites a spark within a golfer that causes him or her to scoop one more shot over.
To identify the best practice facilities in the United States, we enlisted our over 1,800 course-ranking panelists who rate architecture for our biennial course rankings, including the newly updated 2025-2026 America’s 100 Greatest and 100 Greatest Public Courses.
Scroll on for our ranking of the best practice facilities in the U.S., and be sure to click through to each individual course page for bonus photography and reviews from our course panelists. We also encourage you to leave your own ratings on the courses you’ve played … so you can make your case for why a course should be higher or lower on our rankings.
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“The best turf I’ve ever encountered,” one panelist says of the grass at Whisper Rock’s practice facility. With the condition and the number of wedge targets, it’s no wonder tour pros are often here.

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One of the best views on tour is on the far end of the range at Sea Island. The 17,000-square-foot performance center has every piece of technology needed by some of the best instructors in the game.

Tremont Sporting Co.

Tremont Sporting Co.

Tremont Sporting Co.

Tremont Sporting Co.

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Officials dynamited terrain for 82 days to make the land ideal for this massive performance center that includes a bar, common space and short-game area with unreal views of the Hudson River.

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Dallas National revolutionized the use of TrackMan on its 130-yard-wide range with built-in launch monitors that allow members and their guests to sync up their phones to access swing data.

Larry Lambrecht

Larry Lambrecht

Larry Lambrecht

Larry Lambrecht

Larry Lambrecht

Larry Lambrecht

Larry Lambrecht
The practice area at Michael Jordan’s ultra-private retreat is designed to make golfers—especially the tour players that flock here—feel the heat. Its assortment of target greens features various shelves and movable stakes to create appropriate challenges for different levels of player.

Dom Furore

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Dom Furore

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Dom Furore

JD Cuban

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Stephen Denton
The club’s Tournament Practice Area is likely the most expensive and least-used facility in golf. Every detail is perfect, such as exact shots and green dimensions players face on the course.

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The view from behind the 12th green at MPCC Shore.
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The approach to the eighth green at MPCC Shore.
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Behind the sixth green at the Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shore course.

Approaching the 413-yard par-4 15th hole at Monterey Peninsula Country Club's Shore course.

The par-3 third hole, before the layout opens up to 17 Mile Drive.
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We can think of no greater serenity in golf than the members-only range at MPCC, with perfect views of the Pacific and a halfway house steps away.

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Muirfield Village’s two-sided range with numerous greens allows players to practice in any wind direction—especially key on blustery Midwest afternoons.

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Evan Schiller

Evan Schiller

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The 55-acre facility includes multiple target greens and replica fairway routings, so every shot can be rehearsed. A stretching studio is a nice touch.

Carlos Amoedo

Dom Furore

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Dom Furore

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There used to be a helicopter pad on the far side of the range, but now it’s double-sided and about 400 yards across with target greens measured daily from each hitting station. Short-game areas beside the big range offer six putting greens and assorted practice bunkers.

A 55-acre, 360-degree range with elevated tee boxes and intricately designed bunkers and greens at the brand-new Apogee will open soon. Stephen Sweeney, one of the leading putting instructors on tour, helped the club design an “AimPoint” green to help members learn to putt using the popular method.
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