Greenbook
Augusta National Golf Club

American golf atlas

Greenbook

Five hundred courses, placed on the country. Zoom into a city until the pins separate. Click a state and its chapter opens: the courses in the book, and a short history of golf on that ground.

Open the mapThe 500Resort atlas

Vol. II · United States · 2025–26

Indexed
500
States
50
You can play
222
In the pipeline
12

278 private110 public112 resort

TW

Player-architect · index 232

Tiger Woods is in the book

Payne’s Valley, his public course at Big Cedar Lodge in the Ozarks, is number 232. It is named for Payne Stewart. The nineteenth hole is a short par three to an island green, with Stewart’s statue on the tee. Big Cedar is eighth on the resort atlas.

Payne’s ValleyArchitect rankingBig CedarThe nineteenth

Resort atlas

All 25

The country

Where the 500 sits

Click a region and the map closes in on it. The number is how many indexed courses are in those states.

Fifty chapters

Every state opens on a photograph of a course on its ground. When the indexed club has no free picture, the header is another real course in that state, named on the page.

When they were built

Private, public, resort

Architects, primary credit

Top of the index

All 500

Rounds you can book

Open the 500

Still being built

Pipeline

  • Opened 2025

    Scarecrow

    Brewster, Washington · David McLay Kidd & Nick Schaan

  • Opened 2025

    Cliffhangers

    Ridgedale, Missouri · Big Cedar Lodge

  • Opening 2026

    The Commons

    Nekoosa, Wisconsin · Sand Valley

Ranks 1–100 follow the published order of Golf Digest’s America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses for 2025–26. Ranks 101–200 follow that year’s Second 100. Golf Digest tied Clear Creek Tahoe and Hazeltine at 137; Greenbook lists them as 137 and 138. Ranks 201–210 are the ten courses Golf Digest published just off that list. Ranks 211–250 are Greenbook’s own shelf: landmark public and resort rounds, plus a course for every state the national 210 does not reach. Ranks 251–500 are a wider shelf of real courses — Greenbook’s judgment, not a published national ballot. Arizona, Minnesota, and Florida get a slightly longer look: a few extra invitations, not a rewritten top hundred. The first 250 are unchanged. Greenbook is independent and is not affiliated with Golf Digest. Championship yardages change with the setup.

Greenbook

American golf, after dark. Desert included.