Other Public Access College Courses Not to Be Missed

The only top 20 university course I've played is UNM (#17) in Albuquerque, but there are many great ones. In the top 20, (I don't know what the criteria is, but I wouldn't be concerned) there's some by the "Old Masters", like Yale's course, finished by C. B. MacDonald in 1926. It comes in at #2, and should just about be mature. Alister McKensie produced and directed two top ten courses, at Ohio State University ("Scarlet" at #4) and University of Michigan (1938 & 1930). Donald Ross gets credit for the Mark Bostick Golf Course (1921) at University of Florida and Orchards Golf Club (1922) at Mount Holyoke College.
More recently some great new products have emerged:
Karsten Creek (#1 and spendy at $300), Oklahoma State's course by Tom Fazio, as well as the Finley Golf Course at University of North Carolina by the Tom. Fazio is the modern genius with two top ten entries.
The red-hot Tom Doak did the Texas Tech University track, which is the Rawls Course.
Pete Dye was the architect for Purdue University's Kampen Course.
Coore/Crenshaw did Notre Dame's green cathedral, Warren Golf Course.
The R. T. Jones's did some fine institutional work. Senior worked on Colgate University's Seven Oaks course, U.S. Air Force Academy's Eisenhower ("Blue"), and Duke University Golf Club. The U.S.A.F. course in Colorado Springs is no. 1 among Department of Defense layouts. Junior was the architect at University ("Ridge") of Wisconsin.
Jim Colbert checks in at #3 of the best with his namesake course at Kansas State University. Colbert Hills also has the distinction of being on the list of America's toughest courses, along with Charles Blair's entry at Yale.

These are some of the finest names in course building, and you can get on most of the top 20 college courses for about a "Benjamin" or less. U. of Fla., Ohio State, Yale, Mt. Holyoke, U. of Michigan, and Tiger's alma mater (by G. Thomas, 1930) are a problem, if you don't know someone. If you are not military, you will need to know someone at Eisenhower. The rest of the very best university courses are "public friendly".

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