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Around the World in 18 Holes

Play your way around the world through eighteen remarkable golf destinations. This journey begins above the Pacific in Hawaii and travels east through the United States, Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Each hole explores a different part of golf's story: ancient links, celebrated championship venues, influential course architecture, dramatic landscapes, and the many cultures that have made golf a global game.

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Hole 1 – Kapalua, Hawaii

Tee off high above the Pacific at the Plantation Course at Kapalua. Built across the slopes of the West Maui Mountains, the course is known for huge elevation changes, broad fairways, trade winds, and sweeping ocean views. It is a fitting first hole for a journey that will circle much of the golfing world.

Hole 2 – Bandon Dunes, Oregon

Bandon Dunes brought traditional links-style golf to the rugged Pacific coast of the United States. Wind, dunes, firm turf, and views of the ocean make the experience feel closer to the British Isles than to a typical American resort. Its success helped inspire a new generation of destination golf built around the land itself.

Hole 3 – Pebble Beach, California

Pebble Beach Golf Links hugs the cliffs of the Monterey Peninsula, where some of golf's most famous holes sit directly above the Pacific. Opened in 1919, the course has hosted major championships and generations of dramatic finishes. The tiny par-3 seventh and the oceanfront eighteenth are among the most recognizable scenes in golf.

Hole 4 – Augusta, Georgia

Augusta National is inseparable from the Masters Tournament and many of golf's most enduring traditions. Designed by Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie, its rolling terrain, strategic angles, flowering azaleas, and famous stretch through Amen Corner have shaped some of the sport's greatest moments. Few courses are as instantly associated with a single championship.

Hole 5 – Pinehurst, North Carolina

Pinehurst No. 2 is one of Donald Ross's defining designs and a centerpiece of American golf history. Its crowned greens, sandy native areas, and subtle strategic choices reward imagination rather than brute force. Pinehurst itself has grown into a village where golf history and everyday life are unusually intertwined.

Hole 6 – Teeth of the Dog, Dominican Republic

Pete Dye's Teeth of the Dog brings the journey to the Caribbean, where seven holes play directly along the sea. Dye famously said he created eleven holes and God created seven, a reference to the spectacular natural coastline that defines the course. Coral rock, turquoise water, and strong sea breezes make this one of golf's great tropical settings.

Hole 7 – Ballybunion, Ireland

The Old Course at Ballybunion winds through towering dunes beside the Atlantic on Ireland's southwest coast. Blind shots, uneven ground, wind, and natural contours give it the unpredictable character that makes traditional links golf distinctive. This is golf shaped less by landscaping than by sand, sea, weather, and imagination.

Hole 8 – Royal County Down, Northern Ireland

Royal County Down sits between Dundrum Bay and the Mountains of Mourne in one of golf's most dramatic settings. Narrow fairways thread through enormous dunes, while bunkers edged with heather and gorse punish careless shots. The combination of landscape, challenge, and old links character has made it a fixture on lists of the world's great courses.

Hole 9 – St Andrews, Scotland

Make the turn at the Old Course at St Andrews, the place most closely identified as the home of golf. Golf has been played on these links for centuries, and features such as the enormous double greens, deep bunkers, the Swilcan Bridge, and the shared first and eighteenth fairway are unlike almost anything in modern course design. The back nine begins at the game's historic center.

Hole 10 – Le Golf National, France

Le Golf National outside Paris represents a more modern form of championship golf. Built to create drama for both players and spectators, its Albatros Course combines water hazards, bold finishing holes, and stadium-like viewing areas. Hosting both the Ryder Cup and Olympic golf has given it a prominent place in international competition.

Hole 11 – Valderrama, Spain

Finish the front nine at Real Club Valderrama in southern Spain. Its narrow, cork-oak-lined fairways demand precision, and the course became part of Ryder Cup history when it hosted the matches in 1997. Valderrama shows how championship golf took on a distinctly Mediterranean character as the game expanded across continental Europe.

Hole 12 – Leopard Creek, South Africa

At Leopard Creek, golf meets the African bush. The course borders Kruger National Park, and its elevated holes can offer views toward the Crocodile River and the wildlife beyond. It is a reminder that the world's memorable golf destinations are often defined as much by their surroundings as by the scorecard.

Hole 13 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Emirates Golf Club helped establish Dubai as a major international golf destination. Its Majlis Course brought championship golf to the desert, combining carefully maintained fairways with sand, palms, and a skyline that has changed dramatically since the club opened. The contrast between green course and arid landscape makes this stop unmistakably different.

Hole 14 – Nine Bridges, South Korea

Nine Bridges on Jeju Island represents the growth of elite golf in South Korea. Set in a volcanic island landscape, the course combines forests, wetlands, stone, and carefully shaped fairways. South Korea's extraordinary enthusiasm for golf, particularly its success in the women's professional game, gives this stop a broader story beyond the course itself.

Hole 15 – Hirono, Japan

Hirono Golf Club is one of Japan's most celebrated traditional courses. Designed by Charles Hugh Alison in the 1930s, it is known for strategic bunkering, wooded terrain, and a restrained style that rewards thoughtful play. The stop also reflects Japan's long and distinctive golf culture, where the game developed traditions of its own.

Hole 16 – Royal Melbourne, Australia

Royal Melbourne is the centerpiece of Australia's famous Sandbelt. Alister MacKenzie's influence can be seen in its broad strategic fairways, dramatic bunkering, and greens that reward the correct angle of approach. Firm ground and imaginative design make the course a classic example of architecture that asks players to think their way around.

Hole 17 – Barnbougle, Tasmania

Barnbougle brings the journey to a remote stretch of Tasmania's north coast. Built among towering coastal dunes, the courses use wind, firm turf, natural contours, and dramatic views of Bass Strait to create a modern version of traditional links golf. Its rise from isolated farmland to international golf destination is part of its appeal.

Hole 18 – Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand

Finish the round at Cape Kidnappers high above Hawke's Bay on New Zealand's North Island. Several holes run along narrow ridges and dramatic cliffs that plunge toward the Pacific, creating one of the most striking settings in modern golf. After eighteen holes and a journey across oceans, continents, deserts, dunes, forests, and coastlines, this is an appropriately spectacular eighteenth green.

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