Founded in 1989, Atlantic Golf Club is located on the eastern end of Long Island in Bridgehampton, New York in the exclusive Hamptons community. Developer Lowell Schulman constructed the Club on a 205-acre potato farm and obtained the services of Rees Jones to design and build the course.
Tom and Betty StarkFortunately for golfers in Palm Beach County, Tom and Betty Stark, owners of The Florida Club in Stuart, purchased the club with the goal of not only restoring past glory, but making it one of the finest public golf courses in the area.
architect C.B. Macdonald7. National Golf Links of America. This is where golf architect Seth Raynor got his start. A civil engineer by training, he surveyed holes for architect C.B. Macdonald, who scientifically designed National Golf Links as a fusion of his favorite features from grand old British golf holes.
architect Tom FazioFamed golf course architect Tom Fazio was commissioned to design a masterpiece and the result was, as you'll read, amazing. The course also features environmental areas on four holes and many rock walls and ruins throughout the venue.
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Jones founded and helped design the Augusta National Golf Club, and co-founded the Masters Tournament. The innovations that he introduced at the Masters have been copied by virtually every professional golf tournament in the world.
Dr. Alister MacKenzie, a physician turned golf architect, was the brains behind Augusta National -- one of the most famous golf courses in the world, and host of the prestigious Masters tournament.
Donald RossOf the more than 400 courses Donald Ross designed, Pinehurst No. 2 was where he made his home, continuing to tweak and perfect the course throughout his life.
Bergschneider, chairman of Hudson National Golf Club in Croton-on-Hudson and president of National Fairways, a developer of 15 golf courses from Florida to New England.
Initiation Fee: $210,000 Hudson National Golf Club opened in 1996 and is one of the oldest courses on this list. With a course designed by Tom Fazio and a drive from Manhattan that comes in under an hour, this course is a New York favorite. Initiation fees will cost members $210,000.