Oahu Country Club - Hawaii, U.S.A.

Oahu Country Club was founded in 1905 and the original nine-hole course opened in April 1907, making it the second-oldest course in Hawaii. A private club, the members have carried out constant revisions and lengthening of the course over the years, including some improvements suggested by Robert Trent Jones when he visited in 1960. The course rises and dips through the Nuuanu Valley, bounded by the Pali Highway and the surrounding mountains. Right from the elevated first tee, there are dazzling views of Waikiki, the Honolulu skyline, and the Pacific. The narrow fairways run through lush hills and are lined with banyan, paper bark, and giant monkey pod trees. The club hosts the Manoa Cup or Hawaii State Amateur Match Play Championship each year.

Olympic Club - California, U.S.A.

The Olympic Club's Lakeside Course is known as the most claustrophobic in championship golf The narrow, sloped fairways are overarched by an elaborate lattice of cypress, pine, and eucalyptus that must be negotiated from tee to green, demanding pinpoint driving accuracy and the ability to playa high fade through the narrow corridors. The Olympic Club actually acquired the course from the struggling Lakeside Country Club in 1922. The course is on the western edge of San Francisco, on the inland side of the ridges separating Lake Merced from the Pacific, while the club's other course, the Ocean Course, lies on the other side of the ridges. Olympic is known for producing underdog champions. In the 1955 US. Open, the unknown Jack Fleck defeated Ben Hogan in a playoff In 1966, Arnold Palmer blew a big lead coming down the stretch and lost to Billy Casper in a playoff In 1987, Tom Watson made his final hurrah in the US. Open but came up one stroke short of winner Scott Simpson. Lee Janzen won his second US. Open at Olympic in 1998, beating out Payne Stewart.