The Best Seth Raynor Golf Courses

#1 on trail

Fishers Island, New York

Seth Raynor's 1926 design occupies a remote Atlantic island accessible only by ferry, blending naturalistic terrain with his signature geometric templates. Ranked among America's finest private courses.

#2 on trail

Cincinnati, Ohio

One of Seth Raynor's final designs, Camargo was completed in 1927 after his death and ranks among his finest inland work outside Cincinnati — celebrated for the best set of par-3 template holes he ever built. Private access only.

#3 on trail

Lake Bluff, Illinois

Seth Raynor's 1921 masterpiece on Chicago's North Shore features dramatic ravines cutting through nearly every hole. One of the purest golden-age designs in the Midwest.

#4 on trail

Wheaton, Illinois

Home of American golf's most storied club — a USGA founding member that built the country's first 18-hole course. Seth Raynor's 1923 redesign of C.B. Macdonald's original Wheaton layout gives the course its template holes, from the Biarritz 3rd to the Redan 7th. This private club hosted three early U.S. Opens.

#5 on trail

New Haven, Connecticut

Designed by Macdonald and Raynor in 1926, Yale features bold template holes — including a Biarritz and Redan — carved through rugged Connecticut terrain. One of the few places the public can play true Macdonald-Raynor architecture.

#6 on trail

Locust Valley, New York

C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor's 1912 template design on Long Island's Gold Coast. Classic hole concepts — Redan, Alps, Biarritz — executed on rolling, wooded terrain.

#7 on trail

St Louis, Missouri

Macdonald & Raynor design from 1914 featuring template holes true to their golden-age philosophy. One of Missouri's most architecturally significant private layouts.

#8 on trail

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Seth Raynor's 1925 design brings his trademark template holes and geometric green complexes to the wooded hills northeast of Pittsburgh. A rare, exceptionally well-preserved private layout from one of golf's most distinctive architectural voices.

#9 on trail

Charleston, South Carolina

Seth Raynor's 1925 masterwork outside Charleston delivers his trademark template holes — Redan, Biarritz, Eden — on rolling lowcountry terrain. One of the Southeast's most coveted private rounds.

#10 on trail

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

Seth Raynor's 1926 template design near Milwaukee packs bold, dramatic green complexes onto a compact, mostly flat site. The first course in Wisconsin to host a major — the 1933 PGA Championship, won by Gene Sarazen — it remains one of the purest Raynor template experiences in the Midwest.