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Beginning with this week’s issue, Golf World is no longer the only golfmagazine in the world — at least the only one I’m aware of — that doesn’thave its own golf-course ranking. At the beginning of this year, we unveiledout newest project: the “Readers’ Choice Awards,” a ranking of golffacilities in the United States, broken down into three categories (public,private and resort), using our readers as the judges. They responded by thethousands. In a 16-page section in this week’s magazine — and a specialsection on golfworld.com — we unveil the results of the voting.Masters Unlike other rankings, which are produced by panelists and editors andcourse designers and other experts of one ilk or another, this list belongsto the readers of Golf World. A few weeks ago, senior writer Ryan Herringtonand I shared the results with Ron Whitten, the Golf Digest/Golf Worldarchitecture editor for nearly three decades, and one of the mastermindsbehind Golf Digest’s “America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses,” the preeminentcourse ranking in the magazine business. We were a bit apprehensive. Afterall, Pine Valley wasn’t No. 1 in the private category, Pebble Beach wasn’tin the top 10 among resorts, Torrey Pines didn’t make the top 25 amongpublic courses. What would Whitten think?Latests Golf “It’s a great list,” he said, “because it’s a populist list. It belongs tothe people. There isn’t any other ranking like it.”Mizuno Golf
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