The Top 10 New Courses You Can Play: 2008
1. The Golf Club at Tetherow
Bend, Ore.
7,450 yards, par 72;
Green fees: $195;
866-234-4848; tetherow.com
Scottish designer David McLay Kidd was schooled among the dunes of Machrihanish and the gorse of Gleneagles, and he broke into architecture's elite a decade ago with the opening of Bandon Dunes. His worldwide portfolio is impressive, but Tetherow is the place he calls home.
The layout rambles over two ridgelines and is seeded in wall-to-wall fescue, ensuring fast conditions and a links-like emphasis on the ground game. A spectacular exception is the all-carry 190-yard, par-3 17th, which plays into an old pumice pit to a dry island green.
Tetherow is a private residential golf club that will offer limited outside play until 2010, when an onsite boutique hotel comes online. After that, it's members and resort guests only. That gives you plenty of time to see the best "public" course of 2008.
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