West

A tiny mountain town ringed by golf — the Sierra's best-kept buddy-trip secret.

A working cattle ranch with reversible golf and goat caddies — the frontier original.

Cliff-top golf over Hanalei Bay — the Garden Isle at its most cinematic.

54 Pete Dye holes in the empty desert — with Las Vegas waiting after dark.

A U.S. Open links on a public paycheck — fescue dunes above Puget Sound.

Fazio golf in a saguaro forest under the Catalinas — Arizona's quieter classic.

The PGA Tour's season opener, played on your buddy trip — Maui doing the rest.

Desert target golf among the saguaros — and America's best nineteenth-hole city.

Pure Sonoran golf with no houses in sight — the desert the way it was meant to look.

High-desert golf in a real cowboy town — the under-the-radar Arizona trip.

U.S. Open golf on public cliffs above the Pacific — San Diego does the rest.

Video-game golf through painted canyons — the desert's most outrageous fairways.

True links golf on Canada's wild Atlantic coast — Cliffs, Links and lobster at the end of the road.

The most famous meeting of land and sea in golf — U.S. Open fairways, Carmel nights.

Pete Dye's desert playground — island greens, mountain backdrops and pool-home nights.

America's golf pilgrimage — true links on the Oregon coast, walking only.

Wide-open fescue above the Columbia River — the most fun-per-swing course in America.

High-desert golf under the Cascades — pines, volcanoes and a beer for every round.

Fairways running to the shore of Lake Tahoe — alpine golf with a casino corner.

Golf on red-rock cliff edges outside Zion — Utah's color-saturated stunner.