5 Golf Courses Which Should Host Major Championships Now

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Published: November 22, 2012

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For most golf fans, the season ended in August when Rory McIlroy obliterated the field at Kiawah Island, winning the PGA Championship by an astonishing eight strokes.

For true golf fans the season never really ended, with world-class events going on around the globe week after week.

Regardless of where you stand on the importance of tournaments after the major championships are completed, nobody can deny that golfers' careers are made and measured by their performances in golf’s four major championships.

Let’s take a look at five courses at which the USGA and PGA of America should consider hosting major championships today…if the memberships will let them. 

 

National Golf Links of America, Southampton, N.Y.

Located on the East End of Long Island, in one of our nation’s most exclusive areas, sits the National Golf Links of America, known as “National” to the golfing community.

The Charles Blair MacDonald-designed course played home to the first Walker Cup in 1922 and will once against host the world’s best amateur golfers in 2013. The par-72 golf course measures just over 6,900 yards and was ranked 10th among America’s greatest golf courses by Golf Digest in their latest rankings.

Seeing the likes of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson walk alongside the iconic windmill with the pressure of a major championship on the line would be a sight no golf fan would soon forget. 

 

Sand Hills Golf Club, Mullen, Neb.

Unless you are a true golf junkie, Sand Hills is probably the best course you’ve never heard of.

Located on over 8,000 acres of land in the remote plains of Nebraska, Sand Hills provides you with some of the greatest views you will ever see on a golf course. The course features sand dunes of epic proportions, some measuring well over 400 feet.

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