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With this list of the best Golfweek courses you can play, we present the best public access courses in each state, as judged by our national raters network.
Each year we publish three lists that underlie our course evaluation program: the best modern Golfweek courses, the best classic Golfweek courses and the best Golfweek courses you can play.
Members of our course evaluation team continuously evaluate courses and evaluate them against our 10 criteria. They also present a single overall assessment for each course. These overall assessments on each course are calculated together on average to produce a final assessment for each course. Then each course is ranked against other courses in its state to produce the final rankings.
All courses on this list allow public access in some way, whether it is standard daily green fees, through a resort or by staying at an affiliated hotel. If there is a will, there is a tee time.
KEY: (m) modern, built in 1960 or later; (c) classic, built before 1960. (For courses with a number preceding the (m) or (c), this is where the course ranks on Golfweek’s best lists for the best 200 modern and classic courses in the States States)
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