The Fairways 100
A working canon of the game's marquee courses: the architects who shaped them, the ground they sit on, and the names golfers build a list around. This is the list you measure your own against. The community-ranked order is the honest one, and it grows sharper as more golfers rank these head to head inside the app.
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Donald Ross
Newtown Township, PA

Alister MacKenzie and Alex Russell
Melbourne, Victoria

Robert Chambers and George Morris
Wirral, GB

Donald Ross
Pinehurst, NC

Pete Dye
Kiawah Island, SC

Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw
Inverside, Nova Scotia

Henry C. Fownes
Oakmont, PA
Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Del Monte Forest, CA

Willie Watson and Sam Whiting
San Francisco, CA

Jack Neville and Douglas Grant
Pebble Beach, CA

Tom Kite and Bob Cupp
Jersey City, NJ
Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw
Mullen, NE

Donald Ross
Atlanta, GA

Pete Dye and Alice Dye
Sheboygan, WI

Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Chaska, MN

Kyle Phillips
Kingsbarns, GB

William Flynn (with earlier work by Willie Davis and Willie Dunn; redesigned by Flynn in 1931)
Southampton, NY

Hubert Chesneau and Robert von Hagge, with Pierre Thévenin
Châteaufort, Île-de-France

Hugh Wilson
Haverford Township, PA

George Cobb (original); later renovations by Arnold Palmer and Tom Fazio
Charlotte, NC

David McLay Kidd
Bandon, OR

Old Tom Morris, with later revisions by Harry Colt
Muirfield, Alba / Scotland

Alister MacKenzie and Bobby Jones
Augusta, GA

Alister MacKenzie (with Robert Hunter; original routing by Seth Raynor)
Pebble Beach, CA

Robert Trent Jones Jr.
University Place, WA

Robert Trent Jones Sr.
San Roque, Andalucía

Bernhard Langer with Stan Eby (European Golf Design)
Portmarnock, Éire / Ireland

Pete Dye
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

Willie Fernie (original); Mackenzie Ross (1951 redesign); Martin Ebert (2016 renovation)
Turnberry, Alba / Scotland

Donald Ross
Toledo, OH

Michael Hurdzan, Dana Fry, and Ron Whitten
Erin, WI
Donald Ross
Bloomfield Hills, MI

A.W. Tillinghast and Joseph Burbeck
Old Bethpage, NY
Perry Maxwell
Tulsa, OK

Devereux Emmet
Besthesda, MD

Robert Trent Jones
Colts Neck, NJ

George C. Thomas Jr. and William P. Bell
Pacific Palisades, CA

Pete Dye with Jack Nicklaus
Hilton Head Island, SC

Originally laid out by nature and shaped over centuries; refined by Old Tom Morris
St Andrews, Scotland

Old Tom Morris
Newcastle, Northern Ireland

Dick Wilson
Orlando, FL

Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw
OR

Edmund B. Ault
Arnold, MD

A.W. Tillinghast
Mamaroneck, NY

Tom Bendelow (original), with later revisions by Roger Packard, Rees Jones, and Tom Doak
Medinah, IL

C.B. Macdonald
Southampton

Donald Ross
Juno Beach, FL

Wilfrid Reid & Sam Whiting
San Francisco, CA

Hugh Wilson
Haverford Township, PA

Dick Wilson and Joe Lee, restored by Rees Jones
Lemont, IL

Pete Dye
La Romana, Dominican Republic

A.W. Tillinghast
Scarsdale, NY

Herbert Strong
Bethlehem, PA

Robert von Hagge
Hamburg, NJ

Coore & Crenshaw
Fort McDowell, AZ

Pete Dye
Kohler, WI

Gil Hanse
Bowling Green, FL

Dick Wilson and Joe Lee
Lemont, IL

Tom Fazio
Brooksville, FL

Tom Fazio
Newport Coast, CA

Pete Dye
Kohler, WI

Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Gaylord, MI

Tom Fazio
Newport Coast, CA

Gary Player
Kiawah Island, SC

Ed Ault, redesign by Rees Jones
Bedminster, NJ

Hal Purdy
Bedminster, NJ

Rees Jones
Bedminster, NJ

George Thomas
Spring Lake Heights, NJ

Donald Ross
Southern Pines, NC

A.W. Tillinghast
Scotch Plains, NJ

Tom Fazio
North Las Vegas, NV

A.W. Tillinghast
Paramus, NJ

Rees Jones
Johns Creek, GA

Perry Maxwell
Austin, TX

Robert Trent Jones
Town and Country, MO

Ault, Clark & Associates
Portsmouth, VA

Ault, Clark & Associates
Mountain Home, AR

Donald Ross
Asheville, NC

Seth Raynor
Wauwatosa, WI

Ault, Clark & Associates
Whitpain Township, PA
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The list above is the canon. The one that matters is yours: the courses you've actually walked, ranked the way you actually feel about them. Log your first course and the comparisons take it from there.