Searching for a golf course to play? Do this genius search-and-booking software

If you happen to’re a golfer, you probably have a deal with on the programs in your city, county and possibly even your state — the most effective designs, the most effective values, the shortest commutes from your private home. However how nicely have you learnt {the golfing} panorama past your yard? With roughly 16,000 programs within the U.S. even essentially the most avid golfers want where-to-play steerage, and now GOLF.com, in partnership with Open Links, offers simply such a useful resource.

It’s known as Course Finder, and it delivers precisely what the names guarantees: a complete and user-friendly database of nearly each golf course in America, plus many extra designs internationally, all searchable not solely by title, metropolis and zip code but additionally by entry kind (public, personal, muni, and many others.); model (regulation, par-3, govt, and many others.); and charge vary (from $ to $$$$). A fan of the work of, say, Gil Hanse, Tom Doak or Perry Maxwell? There’s even a filter by which you’ll search programs by their designers.

However wait, there’s extra! 

Course Finder’s filtering choices additionally embrace GOLF’s Top 100 Course rankings (5 rankings in all), plus 5 different “better of” lists, starting from Top Munis to Top Par-3 Courses. You can also drill all the way down to our course raters’ nominations for the most effective programs in each state. For added comfort, search outcomes are plotted on a map so you may simply see programs’ places relative to your search space. 

Need to be taught extra a few particular design? Each course has a profile web page that features a course description, par and yardage, grass varieties, and even whether or not the course is walkable and has apply amenities. For a lot of public programs, you even have the flexibility to e-book tee occasions straight from the profile pages. 

Right here’s a sensible instance of how Course Finder works: 

Let’s say you’re heading to San Francisco for a piece journey and have some free time to sneak in a spherical. First issues first, you wish to discover the best-of-the-best public programs within the space. Underneath the “Prime 100” menu, merely click on “Prime Public North America,” and also you’ll see a map of the U.S. populate with 100 programs. Zoom in on San Francisco and also you’ll see the three finest public programs within the space, in response to our raters: Pebble Seashore, Spyglass Hill and Pasatiempo. To widen your seek for prime designs, toggle off the Prime 100 filter and search “California” underneath the “Greatest in State” menu, and also you’ll discover a bounty of extra suggestions from our raters.  

On a funds? Underneath the “Max Charge” menu, choose the “$$” possibility. That search will return all the programs within the space that received’t pressure your pockets, together with such wonderful choices at TPC Harding Park and the par-3 course at Golden Gate Park. Perhaps, as you browse the programs dotted on the map, you’ll really feel impressed to shoot two hours down the coast to play the charming seaside muni, Pacific Grove. 

Each golfers’ preferences and necessities are totally different, which is the fantastic thing about Course Finder: It should information you to the most effective programs for you. 

Pleased searching!

Start your search here.

Alan Bastable

Golf.com Editor

As GOLF.com’s govt editor, Bastable is chargeable for the editorial route and voice of one of many sport’s most revered and extremely trafficked information and repair websites. He wears many hats — modifying, writing, ideating, growing, daydreaming of sooner or later breaking 80 — and feels privileged to work with such an insanely proficient and hardworking group of writers, editors and producers. Earlier than grabbing the reins at GOLF.com, he was the options editor at GOLF Journal. A graduate of the College of Richmond and the Columbia Faculty of Journalism, he lives in New Jersey along with his spouse and foursome of children.