Deepdale

The tree-lined fairways at Deepdale Golf Club – many of them tight and sharply doglegged – lead to famously fast, heavily contoured greens. Prominent holes include the 415-yard 8th, the 450-yard 11th and 425-yard 15th, all of which play to raised greens that are heavily protected by sand.

Tom Doak commented on Deepdale in The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses: “You never see it in the rankings of great courses, because if you’re on one of those panels, they’ll ask the members not to bring you out. Too bad – it’s one of Dick Wilson’s best courses, although there are too many sharp doglegs to put it among America’s best. Conditioning is routinely compared to Augusta National, because there are a few greens with such a steep back-to-front slope that you can easily putt off them. Legend has it that when one guest questioned whether the greens were really that fast, his host called up a jet and flew the guest down to Augusta the same afternoon, just to prove him wrong!”