A premium guide to Sand Hills Golf Club in Nebraska, covering its natural Coore–Crenshaw design, prairie-wind strategy, access, travel planning and recovery.

Ben Hogan’s pre-Masters practice ground — Seminole is America’s most private and most revered course. Donald Ross’s 1929 Florida Atlantic coastal masterpiece remains entirely invisible to the public.

Kyle Phillips’s Scottish Open host — Dundonald Links is the most accessible championship course in Ayrshire, open to all visitors with no handicap restriction and genuine tournament-quality conditions.

Bandon’s most architecturally sophisticated course — Coore and Crenshaw’s inland forest routing delivers more terrain variety and strategic depth than any other course at the Oregon resort.

MacKenzie’s Tasman Sea clifftop masterpiece 20 minutes south of Sydney — New South Wales Golf Club is Australia’s finest clifftop course and one of MacKenzie’s own favourites.

Hogan’s Alley, Tiger’s professional debut and the Genesis Invitational — Riviera Country Club is American golf’s most glamorous private club and LA’s greatest sporting landmark.

Harry Colt’s 1906 Fischbeker Heide masterpiece — Germany’s finest course is a Surrey-quality heathland that remains Europe’s most underrated golf destination.

Japan’s greatest course — Charles Alison’s Rokko Forest masterpiece near Kobe is one of the 20 finest courses on earth, locked behind almost impenetrable Japanese privacy.