2018 World Club Championship

presented by GOLF Magazine

GOLF Magazine's 2017 Top 100 Courses in the World

✓ indicates past World Club Championship participants


  Rank Course City Country
1 Pine Valley Pine Valley, N.J. U.S.
  2 Cypress Point Pebble Beach, Calif. U.S.
3 St. Andrews (Old Course) St. Andrews Scotland
4 Royal County Down Newcastle N. Ireland
  5 Augusta National Augusta, Ga. U.S.
  6 Shinnecock Hills Southampton, N.Y. U.S.
  7 National Golf Links America Southampton, N.Y. U.S.
8 Oakmont Oakmont, Pa. U.S.
  9 Pebble Beach Pebble Beach, Calif. U.S.
10 Muirfield Gullane Scotland
11 Royal Melbourne (West) Melbourne Australia
12 Merion (East) Ardmore, Pa. U.S.
  13 Sand Hills Mullen, Neb. U.S.
14 Royal Portrush (Dunluce) Portrush N. Ireland
15 Royal Dornoch Dornoch Scotland
16 Trump Turnberry (Ailsa) Turnberry Scotland
17 Ballybunion (Old) Ballybunion Ireland
  18 Pinehurst (No. 2) Pinehurst, N.C. U.S.
  19 Fishers Island Fishers Island, N.Y. U.S.
20 Kingston Heath Melbourne Australia
  21 Chicago Wheaton, Ill. U.S.
22 Los Angeles (North) Los Angeles, Calif. U.S.
23 Seminole Juno Beach, Fla. U.S.
  24 Crystal Downs Frankfort, Mich. U.S.
  25 San Francisco San Francisco, Calif. U.S.
  26 Pacific Dunes Bandon, Ore. U.S.
27 Winged Foot (West) Mamaroneck, N.Y. U.S.
28 Carnoustie (Championship) Carnoustie Scotland
  29 Tara Iti Te Arai New Zealand
  30 Prairie Dunes Hutchinson, Kan. U.S.
31 Sunningdale (Old) Sunningdale England
32 Riviera Pacific Palisades, Calif. U.S.
  33 Friar's Head Baiting Hollow, N.Y. U.S.
34 Royal Birkdale Southport England
35 Lahinch (Old) Lahinch Ireland
36 Diamante (Dunes) Cabo San Lucas Mexico
  37 The Country Club (Clyde/Squirrel) Brookline, Mass. U.S.
  38 Barnbougle (Dunes) Bridport, Tasmania Australia
  39 Shanqin Bay Bo’ao, Hainan Island China
  40 Hirono Kobe Japan
41 Nine Bridges Jeju Island South Korea
42 Royal St. George's Sandwich England
43 New South Wales La Perouse Australia
  44 Cape Kidnappers Hawke's Bay New Zealand
45 Morfontaine Senlis France
  46 Trump International Golf Links Aberdeen Scotland
47 Royal Troon (Old) Troon Scotland
  48 Casa de Campo (Teeth of the Dog) La Romana Dominican Republic
49 Portmarnock (Old) Portmarnock Ireland
  50 Cabot Cliffs Inverness, Nova Scotia Canada
  51 North Berwick (West) North Berwick Scotland
  52 Bethpage (Black) Farmingdale, N.Y. U.S.
53 Oakland Hills (South) Bloomfield Hills, Mich. U.S.
  54 Kiawah Island (Ocean) Kiawah Island, S.C. U.S.
55 Oitavos Dunes Cascais Portugal
  56 Garden City Golf Club Garden City, N.Y. U.S.
  57 Shoreacres Lake Bluff, IlI. U.S.
  58 Whistling Straits (Straits) Kohler, Wis. U.S.
59 Muirfield Village Dublin, Ohio U.S.
  60 TPC Sawgrass (Stadium) Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. U.S.
  61 Royal Lytham & St. Annes Lytham St. Annes England
  62 Ellerston Ellerston, New South Wales Australia
  63 Camargo Indian Hill, Ohio U.S.
  64 Kingsbarns St. Andrews Scotland
  65 Bandon Dunes Bandon, Ore. U.S.
  66 Woodhall Spa (Hotchkin) Woodhall Spa England
67 Olympic (Lake) San Francisco, Calif. U.S.
  68 Kawana (Fuji) Kawana Japan
69 Southern Hills Tulsa, Okla. U.S.
  70 Maidstone East Hampton, N.Y. U.S.
  71 Castle Stuart Inverness Scotland
  72 Cape Wickham King Island, Tasmania Australia
  73 California Golf Club of San Francisco South San Francisco, Calif. U.S.
  74 Baltrusol (Lower) Springfield, N.J. U.S.
  75 Somerset Hills Bernardsville, N.J. U.S.
  76 Ayodhya Links Bangkok Thailand
  77 Cruden Bay Cruden Bay Scotland
  78 Quaker Ridge Scarsdale, N.Y. U.S.
  79 The Golf Club New Albany, Ohio U.S.
80 Sunningdale (New) Sunningdale England
  81 Koninklijke Haagsche Wassenaar Netherlands
  82 Waterville Waterville Ireland
  83 Winged Foot (East) Mamaroneck, N.Y. U.S.
  84 Royal Liverpool Hoylake England
  85 Royal Porthcawl Porthcawl Wales
  86 Ballyneal Holyoke, Colo. U.S.
  87 Swinley Forest Ascot England
  88 Machrihanish Machrihanish Scotland
  89 Ganton Ganton England
  90 Barnbougle (Lost Farm) Bridport, Tasmania Australia
  91 Yas Links Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi U.A.E.
92 Walton Heath (Old) Tadworth England
  93 Oak Hill (East) Rochester, N.Y. U.S.
94 St. George's Islington, Ontario Canada
95 Valderrama Sotogrande Spain
  96 Cabot Links Inverness Canada
  97 European Club Brittas Bay Ireland
98 Inverness Toledo, Ohio U.S.
99 Tokyo Tokyo Japan
  100 Prestwick Prestwick Scotland