Best golf courses in Oregon for 2024-25

As portion of GOLF’s rigorous ratings process for our recently released Top 100 Courses successful the U.S. and Top 100 Courses You Can Play rankings, our fleet of 100-plus master panelists identified the champion play courses successful each state.

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The champion play courses successful Oregon (2024/2025)

SYMBOL GUIDE
# = Top 100 Course successful the U.S.
Y = Top 100 You Can Play successful the U.S.
V = Top 100 Value Course successful the U.S.
P = Public/Resort

Ed. note: Some courses were omitted from our rankings because they did not person capable votes.

1. Pacific Dunes (Bandon) [#, Y, P]

This unconventional Tom Doak wealth catapulted him into the spotlight astatine the move of the century. A slew of par-4s connected the first 9 gives measurement to a 3-3-5-4-3-5 commencement to the 2nd nine. Only Mike Keiser would person approved of specified an different par sequence, and this people helped modern architecture break free from definite creation shackles that had constrained designers complete the past 5 decades. Scattered blow-out bunkers, gigantic earthy dunes, smartly contoured greens and Pacific panoramas complete Doak’s first masterpiece. 

2. Bandon Trails (Bandon)  [#, Y, P]

Several of Coore & Crenshaw’s finest designs are located astatine hard-to-access backstage clubs, but galore of their useful thankfully are disposable to the public, often courtesy of developer Mike Keiser. Trails is 1 of their champion — nationalist aliases private. The routing useful its measurement complete and crossed heaving dunes and done an enchanting coastal forest, and the truth that you don’t miss the show of the adjacent h2o for astir of the information speaks volumes to its creation quality. The 3rd done the 5th is simply a peculiarly inspired agelong of inland golf, featuring an exemplary par-5, par-4 and par-3.

3. Bandon Dunes (Bandon) [#, Y, P]

Bandon’s original people is simply a David McLay Kidd creation draped atop craggy headlands supra the Pacific. Ocean views stun the senses, on pinch bluff-top soil dunes radiated pinch Scotch broom and gorse bushes, coastal pines, crashing surf, wind-whipped gangly autochthonal grasses and stacked sod bunkers. The astir memorable seaside tests are the par-4 4th and 5th, the par-3 12th and the drivable par-4 16th, each pinch eye-popping scenery and enjoyable risk/rewards. The 2020 U.S. Amateur telecast from present was captivating.

4. Old Macdonald (Bandon) [#, Y, P]

The 4th 18-hole people built astatine Bandon Dunes, this Tom Doak-Jim Urbina collaboration pays tribute to the Golden Age elephantine Charles Blair Macdonald, who himself was famed for paying tribute done his portfolio of template holes. The Redan, the Short, the Long, the Eden — nods to each of these are connected display, on pinch cap-tips to the Road Hole astatine St. Andrews and the Double Plateau greenish that Macdonald first employed astatine National Golf Links connected Long Island. For each its emulation, Old Macdonald leaves a unsocial impression, pinch deep, riveted bunkers and firm, fescue turf that make for arsenic religious an Old World acquisition arsenic immoderate public-access people successful the United States.

5. Sheep Ranch (Bandon) [Y, P]

At a destination known for its minimalist designs, Sheep Ranch is successful immoderate ways the astir stripped-bare of courses, pinch conscionable a smattering of trees and without a azygous soil bunker, connected the smallest crippled of immoderate of Bandon Dunes’ 5 18-hole layouts. In different ways, though, it’s a maxed-out design, claiming much than a mile of coastline, astatine the windiest constituent astatine Bandon, pinch 9 greens connected the bluffs and h2o views from each hole. By immoderate measure, the people represents a masterclass successful routing, making the astir of humble acreage, moving done each points connected the compass, but ne'er going dully backmost and forth.

6. Waverley (Portland)

7. Silvies Valley Ranch – Craddock/Hankins Reversible (Seneca) [Y, P]

Golfers won’t trek each the measurement to eastbound Oregon for conscionable immoderate aged course, which is why Silvies Valley Ranch ownership agreed to designer Dan Hixson’s caller thought for a reversible layout. One day, it’s the Craddock course; the adjacent time it’s the Hankins. Here’s the math: 36 holes, 27 greens and 16 freely fairways. Serious elevation changes will person you often reaching for your rangefinder; you’ll besides request to let for the altitude — the precocious godforsaken scenery is almost 5,000 feet supra oversea level. The 18th connected the Hankins drops 100 feet from tee to fairway, pinch mounding that helps supply a spot much roll.

8. Eugene (Eugene)

9. Pronghorn – Fazio (Bend) [Y, P]

Tom Fazio had agelong since put his stamp connected the architecture world erstwhile he built the 2nd people astatine Pronghorn, but this occupation was a turning constituent for him and his team’s aesthetic. Whereas Fazio was known for designs that required overmuch earth-moving (see the Alotian Club and Shadow Creek), his activity astatine Pronghorn represented a displacement toward a much earthy approach, which he would widen into designs specified arsenic Gozzer Ranch and Shooting Star. At Pronghorn, discarded bunkers blend seamlessly into autochthonal areas of manzanita and sagebrush, the bunker edges resemblant of the Cascade Mountains looming successful the distance. The par-3 8th was conscionable for illustration immoderate different one-shotter earlier a dynamite blast during building unearthed a centuries-old lava tube, a spectacle striking capable for Fazio to creation astir it. This people should beryllium successful speech pinch the champion godforsaken offerings successful the nation.

10. Pumpkin Ridge – Witch Hollow (North Plains) 

11. Portland (Portland) 

12. Pronghorn – Nicklaus (Bend) [Y, P]

The first of the 2 courses astatine Pronghorn Golf Club opened successful 2004 and introduced ‘high desert’ to the Oregon play lexicon, a style that has since grown successful fame pinch designs for illustration Tetherow and Brasada Canyon. Rock outcroppings dot the people and are utilized arsenic some risk-reward carries and centerline hazards that request productivity and gusto to successfully navigate, possibly astir memorably astatine the striking par-5 15th. In specified a highly concentrated area for fantabulous golf, the Jack Nicklaus Signature Course has its ain personality and is among the champion inland tracks successful the Pacific Northwest. The creation besides has helped bolster Bend’s estimation arsenic 1 of the preeminent play destinations connected the West Coast.

13. Crosswater (Three Rivers) [P]

14. Astoria (Warrenton) 

15. Bar Run (Roseburg) [P]

How we rank our courses

For our recently released Top 100 U.S. and Top 100 You Can Play lists — a process that helped america create 50 best-in-state rankings — each panelist was provided a ballot that consisted of 609 courses. Beside the database of courses were 11 “buckets,” aliases groupings. If our panelists considered a people to beryllium among the apical 3 successful the U.S., they ticked that first column. If they believed the people to beryllium among Nos. 4-10, they checked that column, followed by 11-25, 26-50, and truthful connected retired to 250+ and moreover a file for “remove.” Panelists were besides free to constitute successful courses that they felt should person been included connected the ballot.

Points were assigned to each bucket; to get astatine an mean people for each course, we disagreement its aggregate people by the number of votes. From those constituent tallies, the courses are past classed accordingly. It is an intentionally elemental and straightforward process. Why? Because it historically has produced results that are wide lauded. Like the crippled itself, there’s nary request to unnecessarily complicate things aliases effort to hole thing that already useful truthful well.

The cardinal to the process is the acquisition and expertise of our panel. Hailing from 15 nations and each the worldwide play meccas, each of our 127 handpicked panelists has a keen oculus for architecture, some regionally and globally. Many of our panelists person played much than 1,000 courses successful 20-plus countries, immoderate complete 2,000. Their handicaps scope from +5 to 15.

Because the quality of people standing is truthful intensely subjective, nary 1 sentiment carries the day. The only way, then, to build meaningful statement is to incorporated this diverseness of panelists and experiences into 1 ranking.Need thief unriddling the greens astatine your location course? Pick up a civilization Green Book from 8AM Golf connection GolfLogix.