Welcome to Golfweek’s Best 2025 ranking of the top par-3, short and non-traditional private golf courses in the United States ...

With detailed input from GOLF’s 88-member Top 100 Courses ranking panel, its editors, architects from around the world and select other short-course aficionados, we’ve compiled GOLF’s first long look ...

At a time in the game that length of courses and the distance the best players in the world hit the ball dominate headlines, isn't it refreshing that short courses are increasingly seeing a resurgence ...

PINEHURST, N.C. — Is it possible that in the big picture—or at least in a present that needs adjustments—golf is better smaller? That was the feeling I got earlier this week at The Cradle, the newly ...

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Par-3 and other short courses are popping up all around the U.S., and we rank the best public-access layouts of them all.