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GolfCoursesRanked
The world’s golf courses, honestly ranked
GolfCoursesRanked has one job: help you find the right course and plan the trip, honestly. Here is every tool, grouped exactly like the More menu. Open More any time to reach all of them.
Take the 60-second tour — A quick five-stop walkthrough — search, open a course, use the filters, plan a trip, and your passport. It also asks your home base and favourites so the app opens to courses near you.
Plan the whole trip — One page runs the entire trip — flights, stays, budget, a day-by-day plan and what to pack.
Day-by-day plan — Tell us a city and how many days; we build a paced itinerary with nearby courses and drive times that you can reorder.
Road trip — Enter your start and end cities — we surface the top-ranked courses already on your route.
This weekend — The best-ranked course near your home city for this Saturday, checked against the forecast. Set your home city once in Settings.
Your saved courses — Pick up to 10 courses and we put them in the best driving order.
Search — Find any course, state, type or city — every course is in here.
Browse — The full ranked grid. The chips above the grid are quick filters; the Filters drawer holds everything — access, championship pedigree, holes, country, region and more.
Map — Every course as a pin on an interactive world map — tap any one to explore it.
Find your course — Answer 5 quick questions and we score every course to find your best matches.
Picked for you — Name a course you love and we find the 5 most similar courses near you.
Best-of lists — Top-50 lists for public, championship, designer courses and more — built from the GolfCoursesRanked Score.
Compare — Put any two courses side by side — scores, features and details head to head.
Golf quizzes — Five short quizzes on golf history, the great courses and designers, and the legends of the game — earn points as you learn.
Challenges — Beat your best, build streaks, and tick off championship venues — earned from your round journal. Points never affect rankings.
Annual Recap — Your year in golf — rounds, courses and top moments, ready to share.
My Courses (passport) — Every save, round, stamp and photo — your whole golf story in one place, kept on your device.
Photo backup — One tap downloads every passport photo for safekeeping. Photos stay on your device and are never uploaded.
Shop — Gear by category, brand or course — value to luxury picks. Affiliate links may earn us a commission and never affect rankings.
Join the Club — Trip-planning premium — $5.99/mo or $19.99/yr launch price, cancel anytime. Safety information always stays free.
Restore your membership — Paid on another device? Enter your email for a one-tap sign-in link — no password, no name. Your membership follows you everywhere.
Manage or cancel billing — Opens your secure Stripe portal to update payment, view invoices or cancel.
Recommend GolfCoursesRanked — One tap shares the app with someone who loves courses.
Notify me — Get early access when the next clearlyranked apps launch.
Recommend an app improvement — Tell us what to build next — your idea goes straight onto the build list.
Claim your course — Course operators and pros get the verified visitor-feedback dashboard (30-day free trial). Claiming never changes a ranking.
Settings — Home city, defaults and preferences — set once and every tool gets smarter.
Every feature, explained — This page — the full guide to every tool, with the build version at the very bottom.
Swipe the photo for the Near the course slide — directions, satellite view, places to stay, food and fuel, all anchored to the course. The chip row under the photo jumps to Weather, Things to do, Reserve and more. The pill shows the course’s GolfCoursesRanked Score (0–100) — our own composite, independent of any third-party rating. Share this course sends a link that opens straight to it.
Photos come from Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia under their open licences (such as CC BY and CC BY-SA); each photo is credited on its course page, and non-free images are never shown. Course data comes from public sources including OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL — download this open data) and open course-data sources, with an owned GolfCoursesRanked Score computed from public structural data (course designation, global renown, terrain and mapped features), independent of any third-party rating. We don’t list course green fees or cost estimates — those change and vary worldwide, so we point you to the course to confirm them. Rankings are never for sale.
Rankings are never for sale — not to courses, not to advertisers, not to anyone. Affiliate links are disclosed and never change a ranking. Recreation.gov pays us nothing; we link it because it's the right answer.