Field guide
Our field-guide reviews of the best public and accessible golf courses in Missouri — what they cost, how they play, and how to get on.
Resort · Hollister · 9.1
Coore & Crenshaw let loose on the high Ozark ridgelines at Big Cedar Lodge — a strategic, ground-game thrill with panoramic mountain views. Missouri's top-ranked course you can play, and the beating heart of the Internet Invitational.
Resort · Hollister · 8.8
Tiger Woods's first public design, draped across the Ozark hills at Big Cedar Lodge — a big, playable resort course named for Payne Stewart, with a cliff-walled par-3 19th nobody forgets. Now the home of golf's richest internet tournament.
Resort · Hollister · 8.6
Tom Fazio's Ozark course at Big Cedar, where a free-roaming herd of bison grazes the prairie beyond the ropes. Springs, tablerock bluffs, and a genuine wildlife encounter — golf unlike anywhere else, and another Internet Invitational stage.
Resort · Ridgedale · 8.5
Big Cedar's newest spectacle — an 18-hole par-3 course carved into the limestone cliffs, caves, and waterfalls of the Ozarks, with a closing hole played from inside a cavern through a curtain of falling water.
Resort · Ridgedale · 8.4
A nine-hole Jack Nicklaus par-3 perched on an Ozark bluff over Table Rock Lake — waterfalls, cliff-edge greens, and the only par-3 course the PGA Tour ever used for a championship.
Resort · Ridgedale · 8.2
Gary Player's walking-only, 13-hole par-3 romp across a rugged Ozark mountaintop — natural limestone, bridges over caves, and ridge-to-valley views, played in about two hours.
