Tom Weiskopf, who died Saturday at age 79 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, accomplished much more in golf than just his 16 PGA Tour titles, including the 1973 British Open.
Weiskopf was an accomplished course designer with dozens of layouts around the world, many of which place highly in various Golfweek’s Best course rankings. Following is a list of his top 15 courses, as judged by Golfweek’s panel of more than 850 raters.
Our course-ratings panel members continually evaluate courses and rate them based on 10 criteria on a points basis of 1 through 10. Members also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings are averaged to produce these rankings. The list below includes each course’s average rating.
The various Golfweek’s Best rankings (top 200 modern, top modern international, top private and public courses in each state, et cetera) have different requirements for numbers of ballots necessary to appear on each list. This list of Weiskopf’s courses ignores all those various ballot requirements to simply create one lineup of the designer’s best courses, regardless of number of votes, which could lead to slight variations in this versus other Golfweek’s Best lists.
Nos. 11-15
15. CDA National Reserve (formally Rock Creek) 6.59
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho ( Tom Weiskopf )
14. Frost Creek 6.64
Eagle, Colo.
13. Snake River Sporting Club 6.65
Jackson, Wyo.
12. Dunes at Shenzhou Peninsula (West) 6.7
Hainan, China
11. Forest Dunes (Forest Dunes) 6.73
Roscommon, Mich.
Nos. 6-10
10. Spanish Peaks Mountain Club 6.79
Big Sky, Mont.
9. Kukui’ula 6.79
Koloa, Hawaii
8. Dunes at Shenzhou Peninsula (East) 6.85
Hainan, China
7. Castiglion Del Bosco 6.88
Sienna, Italy
6. Lahontan 6.94
Truckee, Calif.
Nos. 1-5
5. Forest Highlands (Canyon) 7.02
Flagstaff, Ariz. (built with Jay Morrish)
4. Yellowstone Club 7.05
Big Sky, Mont.
3. The Rim 7.08
Payson, Ariz.
2. Double Eagle 7.24
Galena, Ohio (built with Jay Morrish)
1. Loch Lomond 7.64
Dunbartonshire, Scotland (built with Jay Morrish)
