Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort - Florida, U.S.A.

The Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando already had 27 holes of golf designed by Jack Nicklaus when in 1988 the resort unveiled Nicklaus's New Course. The New Course is a Sunshine State tribute to the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland. Many features of the Old Course are usefully and entertainingly woven in, including a recreation of the Swilcan Burn, although this one is inhabited by alligators. There are also recreations of Hell Bunker, the pot bunkers Known as the Beardies, and the Principal's Nose, not to mention several double greens. The 17th hole plays as the Road Hole, including a stone wall along the pebbledash road, and the pronounced dip in front of the 18th green is a Floridian version of the famous Valley of Sin. The courses are laid out on 1,500 acres one mile north of the hotel.

TPC At Sawgrass (Stadium Course) - Florida, U.S.A.

Located at Ponte Vedra Beach near Jacksonville, the Stadium Course at the Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass is a landmark course in the annals of golf course architecture. Designed by Pete Dye as the first TPC course and opened in 1981, Sawgrass came to define a new style of target golf, in which the player had to find the salvation of fairway amidst a diabolical array of waste bunkers and lagoons. The course was conceived by Deane Beman, the then-Commissioner of the PGA Tour, specifically to hold the Players Championship, with spectator mounds used to create the concept of stadium golf. While the pros found the course hellish, and complained long and loud (leading to the course being revised two years after it opened), the golfing public relished the dramatic spectacle that builds to a crescendo on the three finishing holes. Dye became a household name among golfers and the term "signature hole" entered the golf lexicon with the famous par-three, 17th island hole. While there had been earlier island greens, none matched the stark severity of Dye's creation-a green omphalos surrounded by a sea of blue.