5 Most Iconic Golf Courses in America

Football might be America's most popular spectator sport and baseball its national pastime, but golf is its national obsession. So obsessed are local duffers, in fact, that golf courses have been tucked into nearly every nook and cranny of the landscape. You'll find courses clinging perilously to seaside cliffs, sprawled over deserts and high plains, and laid out in old sand quarries and fossil beds. One hole, in Idaho, even floats in the middle of a lake, reachable not by golf cart but by shuttle boat. But America has plenty of classic courses, those enduring places whose names alone connote golf royalty. Here are five of the country's most iconic golf courses. … Back to Article