Bandon Dunes has Bandon Preserve and Shorty’s. Pinehurst has the Cradle. Big Cedar Lodge has Top of the Rock and Mountain Top. Sand Valley has The Sand Box. Cobot Links has The Nest. Blackwolf Run has ...

When major golf resorts like Bandon Dunes, Pinehurst and Sand Valley began opening innovative short courses a decade ago, they scratched an itch that golfers didn’t realize they had. These sporty ...

Welcome to the Golfweek’s Best 2025 ranking of the top par-3, short and non-traditional private golf courses in the United States. To acknowledge a recent and rapid rise in short courses, Golfweek’s ...

It would be incorrect, however, to call The Chain a par-3 course. Par was intentionally omitted from the scorecard, not only as a symbolic rejection of convention, but more practically because it ...