Below is a list of golf courses that all of the major golf course rating agencies list among the best courses in the
world. I have taken the average aggregate score for the courses and listed them with the most highly regarded
course at the top and then placed them in descending order. Since all of the experts rank these courses so highly,
I have labeled these courses the "Unanimous Gems". This list happens to be the Unanimous Gems in the United
States.
I haven taken the liberty of tallying up the number of unanimous gems each of the designers has to their credit.
This information is detailed below.
Date Built
1918
1928
1933
1931
1903
1919
1994
1912
1911
2001
1932
1923
1929
1926
1895
1907
1937
1998
1918
1926
1917
1895
2003
1974
1935
1991
1928
1921
1999
1981
1967
1899
1922
1925
1936
1928
2004
1919
1921
2006
1891
1923
1918
1969
Designer
George Crump
Alister Mackenzie
Alister Mackenzie
William Flynn
Henry Fownes
Neville/Grant
Coore/Crenshaw
Wilson
CB MacDonald
Tom Doak
Mackenzie/Maxwell
Tillinghast
Donald Ross
Seth Raynor
CB MacDonald
Donald Ross
Perry Maxwell
Pete Dye
Tillinghast
George Thomas
Donald Ross
Willie Campbell
Coore/Crenshaw
Jack Nicklaus
Tillinghast
Pete Dye
Sam Whiting
George Thomas
David McLay Kidd
Pete Dye
Pete Dye
Emmet
Tillinghast
Donald Ross
Perry Maxwell
Tom Bendelow
Coore/Crenshaw
Donald Ross
Seth Raynor
Tom Doak
Tucker/Park
Tillinghast
Tillinghast
Dye/Nicklaus
Tillinghast
Ross
Dye
Mackenzie
Maxwell
Coore/Crenshaw
MacDonald
Nicklaus
6
5
5
3
3
3
2
2
Seth Raynor
Doak
Thomas
Emmet
Crump
Flynn
Park
Kidd
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
Wilson
Fownes
Neville/Grant
Bendelow
Whiting
Campbell
1
1
1
1
1
1
After the 2011 Golf Digest rankings...
Quaker Ridge
After the 2011 Golf Magazine rankings...
Scioto
Spyglass Hill