Reference
Course guides
Where to play in cities across the country — what each course costs, what it plays like, and which ones have tee times right now.
Arizona
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Ten public courses in and around Tucson, from the five city municipals to the Fazio, Nicklaus and Robert Trent Jones Jr courses in the foothills, with what each one costs, how it putts, and what golfers who played it actually said.
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Ten public courses in and around Phoenix, from a 1935 William P. Bell parkland muni to the longest card in the city at Grand Canyon University, with what each one costs, how it plays, and what golfers who played it said.
California
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Ten public courses in Riverside and the Inland Empire, from a $16 executive round in Brea to a Fred Couples design on the coast, with what each one costs, what grass you are playing on, and what golfers who played it said.
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San Francisco owns an Alister MacKenzie oceanside course and a PGA Championship venue, and both are municipal. Ten Bay Area public courses, with recent rates from under $10 to $119 and notes on which tee sheets actually fill.
Illinois
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Ten public courses in and around Chicago, from Tom Bendelow's city nines and the lakefront course at Marovitz to the park district eighteens in Wilmette and Waukegan, with what each one costs, how it plays and what golfers who played it actually said.
Massachusetts
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Greater Boston's best public golf was mostly built as private clubs in the 1920s and bought later by towns and the state. Three Donald Ross courses, two Stiles and Van Kleek layouts, and recent rates from about $12 to $70.
Ohio
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Ten public courses in and around Cleveland, from the Donald Ross and Stanley Thompson classics the Metroparks inherited to Pete Dye's 27 holes at Fowler's Mill, with what each one costs, how it plays and what golfers who played it actually said.