Camargo is the top-ranked course in Ohio.
Patrick Koenig
As a part of GOLF’s rigorous scores course of for our newly launched Prime 100 Programs within the U.S. and Prime 100 Programs You Can Play rankings, our fleet of 100-plus knowledgeable panelists recognized the perfect golf programs in each state.
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The most effective golf programs in Ohio (2024/2025)
SYMBOL GUIDE
# = Prime 100 Course within the U.S.
Y = Prime 100 You Can Play within the U.S.
V = Prime 100 Worth Course within the U.S.
P = Public/Resort
Ed. be aware: Some programs have been omitted from our rankings as a result of they didn’t obtain sufficient votes.
1. Camargo (Cincinnati) [#]
This low-key 1926 Seth Raynor creation in suburban Cincinnati dishes out deep bunkers and large, squared-off greens on a property laced with valleys and ravines. The usual quartet of Raynor template one-shot holes (Redan, Quick, Biarritz and Eden) are right here and rival his finest set. Fixed refinements proceed, together with to mow traces, however this course won’t ever shut for a splashy restoration. Why? As a result of the membership has all the time been a superb custodian of its course.
2. Inverness (Toledo) [#]
Andrew Inexperienced’s renovation restored Donald Ross options, expunged people who weren’t and added size to check in the present day’s event gamers. Few programs can declare as sterling a set of two-shotters, headlined by the sixth, seventh, ninth, fifteenth, seventeenth and 18th holes. Inverness’s dwelling gap famously measures beneath 400 yards and is among the most fascinating closers within the sport. Too dangerous extra fashionable architects are leery to construct finishers that reward thoughts over muscle.
3. Muirfield Village (Dublin) [#]
Conceived by Jack Nicklaus in 1966 to be his hometown equal of Bobby Jones’ Augusta Nationwide, this 1974 collaboration with Desmond Muirhead was an instantaneous smash, each for its strategic design and flawless conditioning. Equally spectacular was how Nicklaus seamlessly built-in spectator areas into the closing holes, utilizing hillsides and amphitheater-style mounding to offer patrons with clear views of the motion. Exhausting to think about that the professionals now attempt to drive the sliver of inexperienced at 14 however that’s how a lot the sport has modified — and but the opening remains to be no straightforward par. That’s nice structure. Work over 2020 noticed the unlikely occur: probably the greatest units of par-5s on the checklist obtained even higher.
Keyur Khamar/PGA Tour
4. The Golf Membership (New Albany) [#]
Certainly one of Pete Dye’s early masterworks, this rural retreat inbuilt 1967 in suburban Columbus is the place Jack Nicklaus first discovered about design, as an unpaid marketing consultant. With bunkers and water hazards framed by railroad ties and tall native grasses scattered all through, this thorough unique left little doubt that Dye was a generational expertise within the works. Golf merely hadn’t seen holes just like the third and thirteenth. Golf structure was about to move in a extra thrilling path, one which prized selection in addition to using grasses for texture and distinction. Dye’s contributions to fashionable structure can’t be overstated.
5. Scioto (Dublin) [#]
This Donald Ross gem returns to the U.S. Prime 100 after a multi-year absence, due to an Andrew Inexperienced restoration. By returning the eighth and seventeenth greens to their unique areas, Inexperienced eliminated vestiges of a Nineteen Fifties Dick Wilson redesign. Ross’s intimate routing throughout 110 acres of rolling parkland is a star characteristic and will be appreciated anew, due to much-needed tree elimination. Inexperienced’s contact with rebuilding the greens and bunkers in basic Ross type completes a Golden Age image. This was Jack Nicklaus’s boyhood course and ball-strikers will respect the deft shot-making required to achieve sure gap areas on these difficult greens.
6. Moraine (Kettering) [#]
Even within the golf-rich Buckeye state, this course has lengthy held a particular place, together with internet hosting the 1945 PGA Championship received by Bryon Nelson. Although admired, it didn’t generate in the present day’s stage of affection till Keith Foster’s 2015 restoration that noticed bushes felled and the property allowed to breathe once more. Now, golfers absorb its particular landforms and perceive that this rollicking Golden Age design by Alex “Nipper” Campbell is certainly set throughout a glacial moraine.
John Cavalier
7. The Nation Membership (Cleveland)
8. Brookside (Canton)
9. Kirtland (Willoughby)
10. Canterbury (Beachwood)
11. Firestone – South (Akron) [Y, P]
12. Double Eagle (Galena)
13. NCR – South (Kettering)
14. Pepper Pike Membership (Pepper Pike)
15. Sand Ridge (Chardon)
How we rank our programs
For our newly launched Prime 100 U.S. and Prime 100 You Can Play lists — a course of that helped us create 50 best-in-state rankings — every panelist was supplied a poll that consisted of 609 programs. Beside the checklist of programs have been 11 “buckets,” or groupings. If our panelists thought-about a course to be among the many prime three within the U.S., they ticked that first column. In the event that they believed the course to be amongst Nos. 4-10, they checked that column, adopted by 11-25, 26-50, and so forth out to 250+ and even a column for “take away.” Panelists have been additionally free to put in writing in programs that they felt ought to have been included on the poll.
Factors have been assigned to every bucket; to reach at a median rating for every course, we divide its combination rating by the variety of votes. From these level tallies, the programs are then ranked accordingly. It’s an deliberately easy and simple course of. Why? As a result of it traditionally has produced outcomes which can be broadly lauded. Like the sport itself, there’s no have to unnecessarily complicate issues or attempt to repair one thing that already works so properly.
