The course would be on a piece of land the resort had originally planned for the Bandon Muni course, south of town along the New River. The land is covered in dramatic sand dunes and dotted with scattered pines. The course is tentatively titled “New River Dunes.”

While an architect hasn’t been officially tapped, officials are leaning towards David McLay-Kidd, who submitted a “very strong routing” according to sources. McLay-Kidd was the architect behind the resort’s first links, Bandon Dunes, which opened in 1999 and ranks seventh on Golf Digest’s most recent ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses.

Plans for New River Dunes have not been finalized and timing on construction is unclear, but the resort is already in the approval process, sources confirmed.

Bandon Dunes Golf Resort’s fifth 18-hole links, The Sheep Ranch, opened last summer to acclaim. Along with Bandon Dunes and Sheep Ranch the resort boasts five 18-hole courses in Pacific Dunes (ranked second on America’s Top 100 Greatest Public Courses), Bandon Trails and Old Macdonald, along with a 13-hole par-3, Brandon Preserve.

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“Daddy, Mommy, there’s something wrong with my foot!” she yelled.

Groggy from sleep, David went to the hall to find Makenzie sitting on the floor with a small toy bird stuck to her foot. She had inadvertently dumped a bottle of glue and then stepped on the bird. When David took her to the kitchen to clean up, he found pools of water everywhere—earlier, Makenzie had decided the plants needed watering.

“That’s how the day started,” David says.

Makenzie is blind, which helps explain the glue and the water. She also suffers from dementia. Both conditions are caused by a rare neurological condition called CLN3, juvenile Batten disease.

“That coupled with the lack of vision can be comical at times,” David says of the glue and the bird. “That is, if you’re able to laugh at some of these instances.”

David’s wife, Karen, posing with Makenzie (left) and Amelia (right).

• • •

Makenzie was diagnosed nearly four years ago. Incurable and largely untreatable, Batten disease is a fatal genetic disorder of the nervous system that often appears in infancy or early childhood. For over half her life Makenzie was an active, caring and creative young girl full of humour and enthusiasm, but as the disease has progressed it has affected her ability to function—in addition to taking her sight and the onset of dementia, she suffers from seizures, chronic pain, anxiety, lack of sleep, and she will eventually lose nearly all motor skills and need around the clock support.

Batten is among the most savage, cruel diseases, afflicting once healthy children by taking away their power to walk and speak, making them suffer in pain and slowly lose their cognitive abilities, and then striking them with blindness. Life expectancy for children with Batten is short, and the disease intensifies as they age. It’s more than any child or parent should have to endure, and in the case of the Kahns, the situation is made more unimaginable because Makenzie’s twin sister, Amelia, also has Batten. Amelia’s condition has deteriorated even further.

It’s become an impossible situation for David and Karen, who is a building architect by profession, though they have no choice but to move forward. The last five years should also have been a joyous period for David, who shortly before the diagnosis had completed the construction of The Other Course with his design partner, Tim Jackson, the second 18-hole course at Scottsdale National. Owned by PXG founder Bob Parsons, the course is one of the new century’s most exciting, creative design expressions—golf presented as a physical and psychological journey—though very few people have seen it due to the extreme private nature of the club. Now, it’s difficult to get any work accomplished.

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The 18th hole at The Other Course at Scottsdale National.

“We made a motto early in this journey of the disease that if we’re not laughing, we’re crying,” David says. “So we really try, even in the hardest moments, to find a little bit of humour in it. We’ve spent enough days with our heads between our knees and feeling sorry, and those days still happen, we cry most every day, but we’re trying very hard to find even just a smile a day. That’s what we’re down to now.”

Taking care of Makenzie and Amelia as their mental, emotional and physical capacities recede is an all-consuming task for the Kahns. Sometimes Amelia retreats to a place of uncontrolled misery and will scream for 12 hours or more without interruption, inconsolable. David confesses it requires three or four adults to adequately protect and care for the girls’ needs, though for 10 months during last year’s COVID-19 isolation both he and Karen did it alone.

Despite the extreme difficulty and sorrow—or perhaps because of it—the Kahns have founded the Fore Batten Foundation (www.forebatten.org), to help raise awareness and funding for increased research into the disease. The major fundraising component is a silent auction that runs from March 15 through the 29th. This is the auction’s fourth year, and it has become one of golf’s premier fundraising events in terms of the quality of donations and the amount of money raised. Funding from the foundation is intended to propel the medical world toward a treatment for the disease, and eventually a cure. [To view auction items and set up a bidding account, click here.

“The biggest problem with Batten, as with any rare disease, is that it doesn’t have a lot of eyes on it,” says Michelle Hastings, Director at the Center for Genetic Diseases and a professor at the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, specializing in rare diseases. Medical experts know it’s related to a mutation in the genetic sequence, but to date there’s been very little research, compared with other diseases, into understanding the essential causes of Batten and other CLN category diseases.

“We don’t understand what the mutated genes that cause the disease even do—we don’t understand the function of the mutated protein,” Hastings says. “There’s just a lot of fundamental research that needs to go into the topic before we can even begin to think about designing therapeutic strategies.”

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After both Makenzie and Amelia, who will turn 11 next week, were diagnosed with Batten, life became immediately and unbearably hard for David and Karen. But in the last 18 months the girls’ health has rapidly worsened. “It’s changing way faster than we thought it would,” David says. “That’s the disappointing part—we thought when they were diagnosed that there would be five or six good years left still, and I don’t even think we got a year.”

The Kahn family remain dedicated to the continued success of its foundation for future Batten disease research. “We’re aware at this point that we’re most likely fighting for future kids, not our girls,” David says. “Our girls have inspired this mission, but the mission is to help future generations.”

As they’ve had to step back from more active roles in the foundation and the Fore Batten auction, David’s father, Stan, has stepped in to help.

“This has been my baby,” Stan Kahn says of his duties organizing the event and cultivating donations. “Our first year we were hoping to make a couple hundred thousand dollars, and we made $630,000. The second year we said we wanted to raise a cumulative total of $1 million, so if we could make $370,000, that would get us there. That year we did $670,000. And last year we did over $920,000, with 265 auction items including probably 165 golf courses.”

Those golf course packages, donated by clubs, club members and influential organizers from around the county, are a major reason for the auction’s broad support. Available for bidding this year are golf rounds at a wide array of Golf Digest America’s 100 Greatest and Second 100 Courses, such as Friars Head, Oakmont, Ballyneal, Oakland Hills, Inverness Club, Quail Hollow, Maidstone, Pikewood National, Olympic Club, Castle Pines, The Quarry at La Quinta and dozens of others, including Monterey Peninsula Country Club, where Kahn and Jackson completed a renovation of the historic Dunes course in 2015. Also up for bid are unique lots like vacation getaways in Vail and Napa Valley, and day experiences with athletes and celebrities such as Jason Kidd, Rocco Mediate, former Vice President Dan Quayle and Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson.

“I called Bill Coore out of the clear blue,” say Stan, who lives in Scottsdale (as does Coore). “We met for coffee and he agreed to let somebody shadow him on-site for a day. And we got $10,000 for it.” A day with Gil Hanse is also available.

Given the high quality of the lots, it’s little wonder why the demand for golf packages and other activities is so intense. But for the Kahns, it’s the wider golf community’s outpouring of love, care and reinforcement that has been overwhelming. It’s a demonstration of the game’s vast network of people able and willing to help, and of golf’s ongoing ability to rally around those in need. “I mean, these are people who frankly, we don’t even know—or didn’t know then, but do now,” David says.

The Fore Batten Foundation’s silent auction begins March 15th. You can view auction items here: https://e.givesmart.com/events/jXg/i/

“It’s been a humbling and gratifying experience,” Stan says. “I wish I didn’t have to do it, but the golf community has been just amazing. It brings tears to my eyes. People really do care, and we don’t even know what this disease is.”

Perhaps not now, but that’s what Fore Batten is designed to change. “The foundation is our way of not rolling over and putting up a fight, and we’re aware at this point that we’re most likely fighting for future kids, not our girls,” David says. “Our girls have inspired this mission, but the mission is to help future generations.”

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As scientists struggle to get funding for rare disease research from organizations like the National Institutes of Health, it’s private family foundations like Fore Batten that fill the void and provide hope and resources for future breakthroughs. And with enough money, Hastings says, the research can progress rapidly.

Treatments for certain variants of Batten, such as CLN6, were developed in roughly one year, and over the past five years there has been encouraging progress made toward treatments of other rare, neurological diseases like Spinal Muscular Atrophy. In fact, a greater understanding of the different variants and causes of diseases like Batten provide an invaluable understanding of a range of other diseases and potential cures.

“We’ve learned so much about drug development, about treating disease and about disease pathways in the brain, from these rare diseases,” Hastings says. “I see it even today—it has accelerated the way we’re looking at Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. But so much of the progress has been driven by family foundations like that of the Kahns. They’re the ones that have gotten it to where it is today. People are starting to take notice and see value.”

Amelia and Makenzie will turn 11 next week.

The golf community has noticed and can continue to contribute in important, significant ways. Efforts by all of us can make real differences in the lives of others.

“I’ve always felt the people I’ve met through golf are great people, but this proves to me they’re even greater than I thought,” says Stan. “Somewhere down the line, some family is going to be saved by what we’re doing now.”

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By Stephen Hennessey
The Pacific Coast of Oregon and the middle of nowhere Wisconsin wouldn’t seem to have too many similarities. But in discussing why great golf works at Bandon Dunes, and how David McLay Kidd took inspiration from his successful breakthrough course more than 20 years ago, you arrive in tiny Nekoosa, Wis.

Kidd’s Mammoth Dunes at Sand Valley opens Thursday, less than four years after having walked the site and being rewarded the design job from Mike Keiser. Keiser gave Kidd his shot at Bandon Dunes and also found Sand Valley, whose Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw course won Golf Digest’s Best New course in 2017. Kidd’s new course is a top contender for the honor in 2018, along with Streamsong Black and some others, but regardless of the outcome, the design represents a shift in philosophy from Kidd and his design team that started 10 years ago after a return to Bandon Dunes.

As a little-known mid-20s architect from Scotland, Keiser picked Kidd to design his first course at what is now one of the world’s most well known golf resorts. Since then, Kidd realized he had deviated from what he knew instinctively from growing up as the son of a greens superintendent, playing Old Tom Morris and James Braid courses in Scotland. What did Kidd get right at Bandon? And how could he learn from those successes? Having received some criticism for some of his later work—the most extreme of which was fellow designer Tom Doak giving Kidd’s Castle Course at St. Andrews the only “0” on his 1-10 scale on his Confidential Guide to Golf Courses—Kidd took his two lead designers, Casey Krahenbuhl and Nick Schaan—back to Bandon Dunes to draw specifics on what succeeded. The result? A shift in design philosophy that is most embodied at Mammoth Dunes.

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“There’s a misconception that the super creative, best shaping work we do in the dirt has to result in difficult. And that difficult courses that are somehow a badge of honor,” Krahenbuhl says. “So that was the memorable part for me. We realized we can have both. We can create these amazing golf holes—like the 16th hole at Bandon Dunes—which are also extremely playable while being great golf holes.”

Since that trip, Kidd’s team had successful openings at Gamble Sands in Washington and Huntsman Springs in Idaho among others. But Kidd won the design competition in 2014 to build the second course at Sand Valley, and the end result might be Kidd’s team best work yet.

“We needed to remind people that golf could be fun again, and 10 years after my epiphany at Bandon Dunes, Mammoth Dunes opens, so it’s pretty cool,” Kidd told Golf Digest at Mammoth Dunes, a day before the course’s official opening. “I hope this helps in its way to steer the course of golf courses in the future. I’m on a mission for myself and also golf in general to make courses more playable.”

It’s not hard to buy into Kidd’s statements. The scale and width at Mammoth Dunes allows golfers to play into sharply contoured greens from any angle, but not heavily penalizing golfers for spraying it left or right, or missing a shot left or right. Perhaps the most fun hole is the drivable par-4 14th, which plays from an 80-foot tall sand ridge down to a green that Kidd calls the “Big Brother version of a Redan green on a par 4.” Talk about unique. And there are options left or right, including a speed slot to the right that will funnel one’s ball down to the green.

Kidd incorporated the design of Golf Digest’s Armchair Architect winner Brian Silvernail for the 14th hole, using Silvernail’s original sketch. Though Silvernail got some technical lessons on drainage, irrigation and maintenance, the design is Silvernail’s, and McLay Kidd’s team made it work.

The before-and-after drone footage of the hole that tips out at 325 yards but plays from 297 yards from the second set of tees (and downhill) is a must watch.

9 Days Until Mammoth Dunes Opening Day: Mammoth Dunes #14 – The Golf Digest Armchair Architect Hole – Have you ever thought about designing and building your own golf hole? In 2016 as construction was underway, the Keisers with architect David Kidd agreed to have the 14th hole at Mammoth Dunes, a David McLay Kidd design, ultimately designed by the winner of the 2016 @golfdigest Armchair Architect Contest. Over 500 contestants mailed in their concepts including Brian Silvernail, a graphic designer who spent time designing golf courses for video games from Florida. Silvernail won the contest with his downhill, drivable par-4 that featured a dramatic sloping fairway from right to left. He visited the site in 2017 to work with architect David Kidd and his team to finalize the layout and location of bunkers and fairway lines. This video shows the transition from concept to final. #DreamGolf #Mammoth Dunes

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The design played into Kidd’s concept of a successful drivable par 4.

“My premise for a really fun par 4 starts with getting as many players as possible to actually go for it. If golfers feel they need to lay up because the trouble is too much, they feel like they were robbed and didn’t have that same opportunity. In order to make as many people as possible to try to drive it, you have to make the penalty for error pretty minor. So you have to be willing to give away birdies and pars to have them go after eagles. And if you miss, your recovery shot is achievable.

“Part of the thrill, too, is the concept based on the Redan-style green, which is usually found on a par 3. But we achieved it on a par 4. So you have the thrill for a golfer hitting their driver and watching it chase on the ground for 15 to 20 seconds before it stops, who doesn’t think that’s cool?”

Other highlights include a boomerang green on the sixth hole, inspired by a trip that Kidd made to Crystal Downs Country Club in Frankfort, Mich., No. 11 on Golf Digest’s latest 100 Greatest ranking, and studying Alister MacKenzie’s half-moon seventh green.

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Kidd and his team spent some time trying to adapt the unique green, even taking a basketball and rolling it from one side to the other, making sure it was possible to putt from one side to the other. As Wednesday’s pin location proved, the task was a success and the green is one of many interesting green sites on the course.

Perhaps the most impressive is the par-3 13th green, and the massive landforms in which the green sits.

The impressive 13th green.

And the fifth hole, which down a massive sand ridge before the green that sits in the valley, kicks off a truly invigorating stretch of holes. “This is the place on this golf course that I stand and say, ‘Wow,’ “ Krahenbuhl said.

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The fifth green at Mammoth Dunes.

Plus the island-green par-3 eighth hole, with a green surrounded by sand instead of water, comes after the seventh, which features a bunker that incorporates an old settlement house found during construction.

The island green on the par-3 8th is one of the smaller greens on Mammoth Dunes. Though the tee shot can seem intimidating from the back tees, the tees are situated in a way that as you move forward the tees also move farther left, making the angle for your tee shot much more friendly. Just another example of how @dmkgolf protects against low scores from the best players while allowing the hole to be playable for everyone else. #mammothdunes (? by @linkslandphoto )

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6 Days Until Opening Day at Mammoth Dunes. The island green par-3 8th #mammothdunes

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4 Days Until Opening Day at Mammoth Dunes – Enter at Your Own Risk. David Kidd and his team stumbled upon the foundation of this settlement home from the early 1900’s while shaping the Par-5 7th hole. Now it protects the green from a long approach. How would you name this bunker? #MammothDunes

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And so golfers will find yet another great golf course in Wisconsin, following the lead of Whistling Straits and its four courses, and 2017 U.S. Open site Erin Hills. In Sand Valley’s case, you have two courses, plus a 17-hole par-3 course from Coore and Crenshaw, with the likelihood of more courses down the road, is the result of a golf-course shaper Craig Haltom finding this untouched timber forest plantation and suggesting to Keiser that he check out the land, which he did in 2013, telling our Ron Whitten: “I really tried to resist this project, but within 30 minutes of being on-site, I was hooked.”

Drive four hours from Chicago, three and a half from Minneapolis or two and a half from Milwaukee, and you find Sand Valley Resort. It’s an hour on I-39 north from Madison, Wis., and make a left turn, and then a right, and you’ll have a similar reaction to Keiser.

Kidd’s course, which he refers to as “the latest groundwork in Mike Keiser’s master plan for a bigger project to create a pine barrens resort that spreads out in every direction,” has successfully utilized massive sand dunes into a pine oaks savannah of incredible scale.

“We’ve made it so that the fear of failure isn’t so daunting,” Schaan said. “Sure, the 20-handicapper is willing to accept the consequences of a bad shot. But if he’s able to find it, keep it in play and have a chance on your next shot to pull off a fun recovery shot, that’s going to be more fun, and that’s a success. And a lot of that is visual. The whole idea that hitting a golf shot should be based on pass or fail isn’t very fun.”

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By Stephen Hennessey
The partnership of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, the men behind new Byron Nelson home Trinity Forest, has been one golf’s most respected architectural teams for quite some time. And it all started back in the late 1980s, when the pair visited a site for a course that was never built. This came soon after Coore’s first course opened at Rockport Country Club in Texas, and Crenshaw—who had just won the 1984 Masters—was so impressed with Coore’s work, Crenshaw signed up to partner with the former Pete Dye associate. The talented duo has worked together for more than 30 years, producing some of the game’s most revered designs.

Here’s a look at those courses—ranked in the order our Golf Digest course-ranking panelists scored them based on our most recent America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses ranking and Golf Digest’s Complete 200 Greatest International Golf Courses ranking.

10 . Kapalua (Plantation), Maui, Hawaii
Though their partnership started in 1991, this was Coore and Crenshaw’s first completed design. No. 21 on Golf Digest’s most recent 100 Greatest Public Courses and No. 112 on our latest Second 100 Greatest, the Plantation course hosts the annual Tournament of Champions that kicks off the year on the PGA Tour. The course is set to undergo an extensive renovation after next year’s tournament, with Coore and Crenshaw overseeing most of the work.

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9 . Colorado Golf Club, Parker, Colo.
Named Golf Digest’s sixth Best New private course in 2007, this Colorado layout is currently No. 111 on our latest Second 100 Greatest ranking. The venue for the 2013 Solheim Cup will also host the 2019 U.S. Mid Amateur.

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Azahara Munoz of Spain hits her second shot on the 14th hole at the 2013 Solheim Cup at Colorado Golf Club in Parker, Colo. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

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8 . Streamsong (Red), Bowling Green, Fla.
This Everglades-meets-Ballybunion layout, which is how Ron Whitten used to describe the Red course at Streamsong after it opened in 2013, is the highest ranked of the three courses at central Florida’s new Streamsong Resort. Coore and Crenshaw worked with Tom Doak on which land each would use for their routings at Streamsong, a rare collaboration among competitors, but not surprising given their friendship. The Red course, which debuted inside the 100 Greatest in its first appearance, is ranked No. 102 on Golf Digest’s most recent rankings.

The 8th hole at Streamsong’s Red course.

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7 . Bandon Trails (Ore.)
Carved mostly out of wooded land though it starts and finishes among massive sand dunes, the facility’s third course, which opened in 2005, is the fourth-highest ranked course at Bandon Dunes—sitting at No. 70 on our latest ranking.

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The first hole at Bandon Trails

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6 . Old Sandwich Golf Club, Plymouth, Mass.
Old Sandwich’s 56th-place spot is the highest place it has held on our 100 Greatest ranking. Carved out of the brush and sand just two miles from the ocean, Coore and Crenshaw utilised some rolling terrain and beautiful landscapes to create another minimalist design (see Sand Hills, below).

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The 15th hole at Old Sandwich G.C. in Plymouth, Mass.

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5 . Barnbougle Lost Farm, Bridport, Australia
Sitting among towering Tasmanian sandscapes is this links course that was built to be the sister course of Tom Doak’s Barnbougle Dunes, No. 11 on our World 100. Lost Farm is currently No. 26 on our World 100.

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4 . Friar’s Head, Baiting’s Hollow, N.Y.
Built on sandy bluffs along the North Shore of Long Island, Friar’s Head is another minimalist success by Coore and Crenshaw, which despite losing out on Golf Digest’s 2003 Best New Private survey to the Club at Black Rock in Idaho and Dallas National, Friar’s Head ranks far above those designs, continuing to rise in our 100 Greatest rankings—up to No. 19, its highest-ever position.

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The ninth hole at Friar’s Head Golf Club in Baiting’s Hollow, N.Y.

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3 . Sand Hills Golf Club, Mullen, Neb.
Perhaps most architecturally significant out of this group of courses, Sand Hills is regarded as one of the most natural golf courses ever built. As Golf Digest’s Whitten writes: “The golf course wasn’t so much designed as discovered,” and helped guide the later works of Coore and Crenshaw.

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An overview of Sand Hills Golf Club in Mullen, Neb. (Photograph by Dom Furore)

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2 . Cabot Cliffs, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada

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The 16th hole at Cabot Cliffs in Nova Scotia.

On Cabot Cliffs, Golf Digest’s 2015 Best New honoree, Whitten wrote: “This is the second coming of Cypress Point, which in my mind was previously unmatched in its beauty, variety and thrills.” For a man not known for hyperbole, that is the highest praise. Cabot Cliffs was No. 9 on our most recent World 100 ranking.

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1 . Shanqin Bay, Hainan Island, China
Probably unknown by most casual American golfers, Shanqin Bay has been called by some the best course in Asia. Built on seaside sand dunes on China’s Hainan Island, Shanqin Bay sits at No. 8 on Golf Digest’s most recent World 100 ranking.

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The eighth hole at Shanqin Bay in China

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Other notable Coore and Crenshaw courses:

Sand Valley Golf Course was named the Best New golf course in 2017 by Golf Digest. It will be a candidate for our next 100 Greatest/Second 100 Greatest rankings, to be published in January 2019.

Trinity Forest Golf Club, site of the 2018 AT&T Bryon Nelson, will be a candidate for Golf Digest’s 2018 survey of Best New courses.

Ozarks National at Big Cedar Lodge—same as Sand Valley—has not yet been included on a published set of Golf Digest rankings.

Dormie Club: Narrowly missed making Golf Digest’s latest Second 100 Greatest ranking, and ranking 185th on Golf Digest’s 2015-2016 ranking, Dormie Club is No. 49 on our most recent 100 Greatest Public ranking.

Chechessee Creek in Okatie, S.C.: Like Dormie Club, made Golf Digest’s 2015-2016 ranking at No. 197, and narrowly missed in 2017-2018.

The Golf Club at Cuscowilla in Eatonton, Ga. — No. 11 on Golf Digest’s most recent Best in State rankings, the G.C. at Cuscowilla recently went full-private, previously being a 100 Greatest Public course.

East Hampton Golf Club: No. 28 on Golf Digest’s 2015-2016 Best in State rankings. Did not make the 2017-2018 rankings.

We-Ko-Pa’s Saguaro Course in Fort McDowell, Ariz.: No. 98 on Golf Digest’s 2017-2018 100 Greatest Public courses ranking,

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The eighth hole at We-Ko-Pa’s Saguaro course.

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Austin Golf Club: Ben Crenshaw enjoyed his layout so much in his hometown that he actually lives on property.

Bandon Preserve — The fun 13-hole par-3 course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort has become one of the most popular rounds to book at the resort.

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