There are so many courses designed for Links 2003 so i have compiled some top 40 lists below of my own favourites. I have also added back many of the older course profiles i have written over the years which are found at the two links below, one each for fictional and real course profiles :
Older Fictional Course Profiles
Rank |
Microsoft Designs |
Real APCD Courses |
Fictional APCD Courses |
1 |
Oakmont |
Augusta National |
Tall Pines Estate |
2 |
Cabo del Sol |
Shinnecock Hills |
Crystal Pines |
3 |
Gleneagles |
Pebble Beach |
Burn’s Old Links |
4 |
Chateau Whistler |
Turnberry |
Pacific Breaks |
5 |
Canyons at Bighorn |
Merion, East |
Las Joyas |
6 |
Kauri Cliffs |
Wagga Wagga |
Shadowlands |
7 |
Judge & Links Trail |
Brabazon at The Belfry |
Wellington Point |
8 |
Westfields |
Bethpage Black |
Cara Brae |
9 |
Princeville |
Whilstling Straits |
Crooked Creek |
10 |
Barton Creek |
Pinehurst #2 |
Babylon Ridge |
11 |
Troon North |
Medinah No.3 |
Bull Run |
12 |
Stone Canyon |
St Andrews Old Course |
Driftwood |
13 |
Tribute at Otsego Club |
Huntingdale |
Waterstone |
14 |
Cambrian Ridge |
Engineers |
Royal County Kilderry |
15 |
Kapalua Plantation |
Brookline Country Club |
Pilgrim Trails |
16 |
Banff Springs |
Westchester |
Campo El Punetero |
17 |
Covered Bridge |
TPC @ Sawgrass |
The Pinnacle |
18 |
Thanksgiving Point |
Pine Valley |
Stansbury |
19 |
Royal Melbourne |
Royal Lytham & St Annes |
Coogans Bluff |
20 |
Kapalua Village |
Harbour Town |
Shaking Tree |
21 |
Hapuna |
TPC Boston |
Owelstery White Horse |
22 |
Entrada Snow Canyon |
Druids Glen |
Six Mile Lake (Winter) |
23 |
Pelican Hill |
Cog Hill (Dubsdread) |
El Escorpion |
24 |
Mesa Roja |
Valhalla |
Atlantic Point |
25 |
Skeleton Coast |
Inverness Club |
The Shrew |
26 |
Royal Troon |
Woodbridge Old |
|
27 |
Wentworth |
Kalusa Lakes |
|
28 |
Blackwolf Run |
Tish Island |
|
29 |
Burnt Pine at Sandestin |
Royal Kenya |
|
30 |
Munchen Nord, Eichenried |
Duine Mara |
|
31 |
Prairie Dunes | Bardgate House | |
32 |
Spyglass Hill |
Nautlius Bay |
|
33 |
Roganstown |
Xilver Prairie |
|
34 |
Colonial Country Club |
Rugged Dune |
|
35 |
Olympia Fields |
Buck Creek |
|
36 |
Bay Hill |
Carlyon Lakes |
|
37 |
TPC at The Woodlands |
Kansas National |
|
38 |
Quail Hollow |
Royal Thoroughfare |
|
39 |
Edgbaston |
Rotherly Park |
|
40 |
Kapalua Plantation |
Monument |