architects · May 20, 2026
Every Coore & Crenshaw Course, Mapped
A catalog of golf courses designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw: Sand Hills, Friar’s Head, Bandon Trails, Cabot Cliffs, and more.
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Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw are the patron saints of modern minimalist golf design. They walk the site for weeks before drawing a routing. They move less dirt than almost anyone working today. The result is the most copied design philosophy of the last twenty-five years.
scratched.io's catalog credits the firm on eight mapped layouts plus a restoration co-credit at Pinehurst No. 2.
The bucket-list Coore & Crenshaws
- Sand Hills Golf Club, Mullen, Nebraska. 1995. 74.2 / 139. The course that launched the modern minimalist movement.
- Friar’s Head, Long Island, NY. 2002. 75.0 / 141.
- Old Sandwich Golf Club, Massachusetts. 2004. 74.7 / 146.
- Bandon Trails, Bandon Dunes, Oregon. 2005. 73.4 / 130. The forested counterpoint to the resort’s ocean courses.
- Streamsong Red and Blue Courses, Florida phosphate-mine land, opened 2012.
- Cabot Cliffs, Inverness, Nova Scotia. 2015. Routed along the Gulf of St. Lawrence cliffs.
Down under
- Barnbougle Dunes, Bridport, Tasmania. 2004. Coore & Crenshaw with Mike Clayton.
- Barnbougle Lost Farm, Bridport, Tasmania. 2010. The 20-hole follow-up.
The restoration
- Pinehurst No. 2, North Carolina. Restored in 2010, returning Donald Ross’s native sandy waste areas after decades of pine-straw overgrowth. Three U.S. Opens since.
