The Best Tom Doak Golf Courses

#1 on trail

Bandon, Oregon

Tom Doak's 2001 design plays along Oregon's rugged coastline with natural fescue fairways and minimal earth movement. Several holes run directly above the Pacific cliffs.

#2 on trail

Holyoke, Colorado

Tom Doak's minimalist masterpiece in the Colorado sandhills. Walking-only, private, and consistently ranked among the top 50 courses in the U.S.

#3 on trail

Nekoosa, Wisconsin

Doak and Schneider's 2023 recreation of C.B. Macdonald's lost 1917 Long Island masterpiece rebuilds the original hole-for-hole on central Wisconsin's glacial sand. Its template holes — Redan, Alps, Cape, Biarritz, Punchbowl — and enormous greens make it one of the most acclaimed new courses in the country.

#4 on trail

Nekoosa, Wisconsin

Tom Doak's par-68 heathland design at Sand Valley packs strategy into barely 6,000 yards, drawing on the classic inland courses south of London. Small, firm greens and sunken bunkers reward precision over power in a compact routing that proves less can be more.

#5 on trail

Bandon, Oregon

Doak and Urbina's tribute to C.B. Macdonald features oversized greens and template holes drawn from golf's golden age. Plays firm and fast on Oregon's coast.

#6 on trail

Williamsburg, Michigan

Tom Doak's first solo design opened here in 1989, closed in 2008, and reopened in 2024 as a private club after Doak returned to rebuild it. On rolling, sandy Northern Michigan terrain, it's the birthplace of the minimalist style that later defined Pacific Dunes and Ballyneal.

#7 on trail

Aberdeen, North Carolina

Tom Doak's 2024 design plays through the Sandhills' native wiregrass and longleaf pine on a rugged former sand-mine tract in Aberdeen. It's Pinehurst's first new course in nearly three decades.

#8 on trail

Roscommon, Michigan

Tom Doak's reversible design plays 18 holes in two directions—Red and Black—on the same land. One of only a small number of reversible courses in the U.S., it remains a rare and celebrated format. Public access in northern Michigan.

#9 on trail

Bowling Green, Florida

Tom Doak–designed across former phosphate mining land in central Florida, this 2012 resort track plays through dramatic elevation changes rare for the state. Expect exposed ridgelines, deep falloffs, and wide-open angles demanding precise shot-shaping.

#10 on trail

Houston, Texas

Doak's 2019 renovation of Bredemus's 1936 municipal layout returned Memorial Park to championship form. Host of the PGA Tour's Houston Open, it's one of the most accessible tour venues in the country — a true muni that logs 60,000 public rounds a year.