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Source: Golf Digest<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s tempting to describe Golf Digest\u2019s fourth biennial ranking of the World 100 Greatest Golf Courses as a contest between advanced age and youth, legends versus new kids, Old Guard versus Upstarts.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m speaking not of the architects responsible for the courses, but of the courses themselves. Twenty-three of the 100 Greatest courses outside the United States for 2020-\u201921 were founded in the 19th century, including Northern Ireland\u2019s Royal County Down, No. 1 in our world ranking for the third consecutive time. Granted, every one of those 23 courses has been expanded, revised, modified, reshaped and remodeled many times in many ways over many decades, but they were heralded in their youth and remain cherished today in the eyes of our Course Ranking Panel, which includes more than 1,700 North American golfers and more than 350 international players.<\/p>\n

T-35 [63] PUNTA ESPADA G.C.<\/strong>
\nCap Cana, Dominican Republic
\nJack Nicklaus (2006)
\n7,396 yards, par 72<\/p>\n

Jack Nicklaus got his start in golf design working with Pete Dye, and his 10-year-old Punta Espada is a lively version of Dye’s 40-year-old Teeth of the Dog course (No. 32) farther down the Dominican coast, from the to the broad waste areas of brilliant white sand usually associated with Pete’s work, as well as the low-profile greens and the eight green complexes right on the Caribbean shore. Punta Espada starts and finishes on the Caribbean and returns to it early in the back nine, with the awesome 249-yard, par-3 13th directly over an ocean cove.<\/p>\n

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Source: Golf Digest It\u2019s tempting to describe Golf Digest\u2019s fourth biennial ranking of the World 100 Greatest Golf Courses as a contest between advanced age and youth, legends versus new kids, Old Guard versus Upstarts. I\u2019m speaking not of the architects responsible for the courses, but of the courses themselves. 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