The biggest financial, technological, and societal story of 2025 surrounded advancements in artificial intelligence. These AI engines require massive supporting infrastructure projects, and in several cases now, developers are hunting golf courses as sites for future AI data centers.

GOLF.com Executive Editor Alan Bastable has done extensive reporting on munis and public courses in Pennsylvania, California, and Virginia that are all at risk of getting paved over to fuel the future of AI. Alan and Josh Sens go deep on the factors that led to this reality, and how much of an issue it might really become.

You can read more of Alan's reporting here: https://golf.com/news/data-centers-coming-golf-courses/

Happy new year, golf travelers! In our final episode of 2025, Simon Holt and Josh Sens go into detail on each of the greatest courses in the world. From Scottish links to the California coast, and Australia's Sandbelt to Nebraska's Sand Hills, take a deep dive inside the experiences and architecture at the definitive best of the best golf courses on the planet. Both in the U.S. and abroad, there are a number of these world-famous courses that you can play with proper planning. Start here for your golf travel inspiration for 2026 and beyond. Enjoy!

A host of Open Championship courses, available for public play, make their mark in the top 50 of our world rankings. Plus we'll highlight the shortest course on the list (which is surprisingly in the U.S.!) and some private gems in global cities like Paris and Tokyo. Simon Holt and Josh Sens continue to break down every course on GOLF Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the World list. Enjoy!

What's life like for an up-and-coming golf course designer working to make a name for himself? Jay Blasi, who's done some outstanding public and private work in California, walks through a life in the industry. Jay worked on Chambers Bay ahead of it hosting the U.S. Open, and has most recently transformed a clunky routing at Poppy Ridge, a beloved Bay Area public facility, into a walking golfer's paradise. In this interview with Josh Sens, Jay lays out the challenges and successes of living in the golf design world.

This quarter of GOLF's World Top 100 list are some of the most hotly contested courses out there. Some get votes as high as top 10, and others are left fully out of the best 150. In the end, the votes all average out to end up in this incredibly prestigious bucket.

Scotland's Prestwick hosted the first ever Open Championship, and has inspired holes around the world for a century.

Kawana in Japan is home to a course that we say still has the most potential of any established design in the world.

And Norway's Lofoten Links and China's Shanqin Bay jumped up the most spots of any other courses on the list.

This is an exciting part of our list, and Josh Sens and Simon Holt go deep on each. Enjoy!

After a career built on restoring classic template holes in the U.S., renowned modern architect Gil Hanse now gets to work on a handful of the originals at North Berwick.

Longtime North Berwick member, and the leader of GOLF's Top 100 panelists, Simon Holt, sits down with Hanse to discuss his design philosophy, his career working on some of the greatest courses in the world, his original work, and his relationship with his partner Jim Wagner. Enjoy!

These are the courses that really deserve the most conversation, according to Top 100 panelists Simon Holt and Josh Sens.

Cabot Cliffs & Links, Bandon Trails & Dunes, and the lesser known courses at Royal Melbourne and Winged Foot are just some of the headliners from the first quarter of our World Top 100 course breakdowns.

Simon and Josh run through them all, plus give their reactions to the feedback you've given us so far on the newest Top 100 Courses in the World. Enjoy!

The newest ranking of GOLF Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the World is out now! Simon Holt, who leads the panel, and longtime course rater and GOLF Magazine editor Josh Sens go through all the headlines.

Which new courses entered the Top 100? And which courses made meteoric rises? Plus, for our 40th anniversary of the list, we'll take a special stats-driven look back at how trends impact the rankings today.

To view the full list, head over to GOLF.com or pick up a copy of GOLF Magazine today.

How much does a Top 100 ranking mean to an architect? One of the modern golden age's most prolific designers, Jim Wagner, weighs in on the list and the courses on it. As a longtime partner of Gil Hanse, Jim has traveled the world restoring the best of the best, and has already cracked the list with their own original projects. If you want to get inside the head of an architect, this interview with Josh Sens is for you. Enjoy!

Razor thin margins decide whether a deserving course earns a spot in GOLF's Top 100 Courses in the World.

Ahead of our latest 2025-2026 World list release, we take you behind the curtain for the very first time, revealing every course that just missed out between spots 101 and 150.

Simon Holt, who collates the votes, and longtime course rater Josh Sens walk through the process and give their thoughts on all fifty courses in this group. Enjoy!