Every Donald Ross Course, Mapped
A complete catalog of golf courses designed by Donald Ross: Pinehurst No. 2, Oakland Hills South, Inverness, and the rest. Browse by location or rating.
Donald Ross is arguably the most prolific Golden Age architect. Over 400 designs across North America, many of them still on PGA Tour and major championship rotas a century later.
scratched.io's catalog credits Ross on dozens of layouts. The full list is curated under the Donald Ross designs page, but here are the touchstones worth a pilgrimage:
The bucket-list Rosses
- Pinehurst No. 2: opened 1907, restored by Coore & Crenshaw in 2010. Three-time U.S. Open host.
- Oakland Hills South: "The Monster" Hogan named in 1951. Hosted 6 majors.
- Inverness Club: Toledo's Ross masterpiece, four U.S. Opens, two PGAs.
- Seminole Golf Club: Donald Ross's personal favorite, on the Florida Atlantic coast.
- Aronimink: Philadelphia Main Line, hosted the 1962 PGA.
- Plainfield Country Club: Tour Championship venue, restored by Gil Hanse.
- Sedgefield Country Club: Wyndham Championship host every August.
Walking the catalog
Ross designs share fingerprints: turtle-backed greens that fall away to false fronts, par-fours that ask for the right angle off the tee, par-fives with reachable risk-reward second shots. The 41,500-course catalog filtering tool lets you see every architect's body of work in one place. Ross, Tillinghast, MacKenzie, Coore & Crenshaw, Doak, all of them.
