Golf Digest
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| Editor-in-Chief | Jerry Tarde |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation (January 2015) |
1,663,571 |
| Year founded | 1950 |
| Company | Condé Nast Publications |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Des Moines, Iowa |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0017-176X |
Golf Digest is a monthly golf magazine published by Condé Nast Publications in the United States. It is a generalist golf publication covering recreational golf and men's and women's competitive golf. Condé Nast Publications also publishes the more specialized Golf for Women, Golf World and Golf World Business. The magazine started in 1950, and was sold to The New York Times Company in 1969. The Times company sold their magazine division to Condé Nast in 2001. The headquarters of Golf Digest is in Des Moines, Iowa.
Golf Digest produces a biennial ranking of the world's best golf courses. The top ten are as follows:
Since 1965, Golf Digest has produced biennial rankings of "America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses". The courses are voted on by a panel of several hundred golf experts. Although Pine Valley Golf Club has topped the list every year except 2001, when Pebble Beach Golf Links ranked first, it was again outranked on the 2009–10 list – this time by Augusta National Golf Club. The magazine also produces lists of the best new courses, the best golf resorts and the best courses in each U.S. state. Before the "Greatest" rankings were introduced in 1985, Golf Digest produced lists called at different times America's 100 Most Testing Courses and America's 100 Greatest Tests of Golf.
The top ten on the 2009–10 list are as follows:
The top ten on the 2007–08 list, published in May 2007, was as follows:
The top ten on the 2005–06 list, published in May 2005, was as follows:
Alongside the "100 Greatest Courses" ranking, and using the same methodology, Golf Digest publishes a list of "America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses". In this context, "public" means a golf course that is open to play by the public, as opposed to a private club—not necessarily a course operated by a governmental entity.
The top ten on the 2007–08 list, also published in May 2007, was as follows:
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