Estancia Club - Arizona, U.S.A.

The estancia Club is the epitome of  desert golf, laid out on very doorstep of  Scottsdale's Pinnacle Peak. Designed by Tom Fazio, Estancia garnered Golf Digest's award as the best new private Course to open in the US. in 1996. The Course starts off with green sites nestled in the rocky outcroppings, with their exclamation points of long-limbed sagauro cactus, before climbing the northern slope of Pinnacle Peak. There is no better testament to Fazio's adroitness at constructing courses that look entirely natural than Estancia, with the flowing green fairways spilling through the ferrous rock face of the mountainside.

PGA West - California, U.S.A.

PGA West is a country club community covering more than 2,200 acres near Palm Springs. There are six golf courses at PGA West-the TPC Stadium Course, the Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course, the Jack Nicklaus Private Course, the Arnold Palmer Private Course, the Tom Weiskopf Private Course, and the Greg Norman Course-set in the starkly barren desert of the Coachella Valley, against the backdrop of the crumpled San Jacinto Mountains. More than any other of his creations, the TPC Stadium Course, one of three Courses at PGA West open to resort guests, earned Pete Dye his sobriquet as the Marquis de Sod when it opened in 1985. Intended to playas the world's toughest test, there had never been anything built quite on the scale of the Stadium Course. There are long forced carries over man-made lakes and bunker faces that rise 18 feet, dwarfing the hapless golfer below. The Stadium Course achieved notoriety when it hosted the in 1986-1991, with Lee Trevino making an ace during the 1987 event when he one-hopped a six-iron into the hole on the rock-strewn, island-green 17th hole named "Alcatraz." The less severe Palmer Course was the site of one of the game's most historic rounds, when David Duval closed with an astounding 59 to win the 1999 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, carding an eagle on the par-five 18th hole.