The Club At Porto CIMA - Missouri, U.S.A.

The Club at Porto Cima on the Lake of the Ozarks was developed by the Four Seasons as the centerpiece of a private golf community. While the site on the Shawnee Bend peninsula of the Lake of the Ozarks is just across the water from The Lodge of the Four Seasons, the property was inaccessible and could not be developed until the Lake of the Ozarks Community Bridge was completed on May 1,1998. Designed by Jack Nicklaus as a signature course and opened in 2000, Porto Cima loops around the lake and through a forest of native oak trees, with seven holes straddling the water. The inspiration for the Mediterranean motifs of the Porta Cima development, which includes a yacht club, comes from the resort village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera.

St. Louis Country Club - Missouri, U.S.A.

St. Louis Country Club, which opened in 1914, is one of the classic designs of the great architectural tandem of Charles Blair Macdonald and Seth Raynor, who first worked together when Macdonald hired Raynor as the engineer for the National Golf Links of America. As at many of their other courses, they designed par threes modeled on the most strategically perplexing and enjoyable one-shotters found in the Old World, including a Short, an Eden, a Redan, and a Biarritz hole, as well as a novel fifth par-three named the Crater. In typical fashion, the bunkers are elongated with steep grass walls, with the fairways of the fifth and par-five 13th separated by tentacles of sand known as the Snakes. Located in the suburb of Ladue, St. Louis Country Club hosted the 1947 U.S. Open, when Sam Snead came agonizingly close to capturing the championship that would forever elude him, losing by one stroke to Lew Worsham in an 18-hole playoff.