Are you looking to play the best courses built during the past seven decades in the United States? We’ve got you covered, with Golfweek’s Best 2025 ranking of the top modern golf courses opened since 1960.

Each year we publish many lists of course rankings, with this top 200 modern courses list among the premium offerings. The hundreds of members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses, and their overall ratings on a 10-point basis are averaged to produce these rankings. The top handful of courses in the world have an average rating of above 9, while many excellent layouts fall into the high-6 to the 8 range.

The details: How we rate courses

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