Pete Dye Golf Club - West Virginia, U.S.A.

The Pete Dye Golf Club in the town of Bridgeport, near Clarksburg, is one of the most unusual and creative Courses in the United States. The course is a testament to the perseverance of Dye, the most inventive golf Course architect of the modern era, and to the dream of the club's founder, James LaRosa, of building a golf course over land that had been used for coal mining that would commemorate the tradition of the region. LaRosa, who became interested in golf through his son, invited Dye to West Virginia in 1979, and 16 years later the project was finally completed. The final product is a tour de force, with carries over creased, stream-laced countryside and along the plateaus created by strip mining of the wooded hillsides. There is a 40-yard walk or cart ride through a replica mineshaft between the sixth and seventh holes and the par-five eighth incorporates a 120-foot high wall exposing the Pittsburgh seam of coal and a ventilation entry. Pete Dye Golf Club is a private national golf club, with members from 27 states and five countries.

Camargo Club - Ohio, U.S.A.

The Camargo Club is a private club situated in the rolling countryside outside of Cincinnati. It is not a particularly well-known course, but it is one that is especially revered by students of classic golf course architecture, and it has long been a favorite of architect Pete Dye. Camargo was designed by Seth Raynor in 1921. Raynor had worked with Charles Blair Macdonald in the design of the National Golf Links of America in Southampton, New York, and thereafter he emerged from Macdonald's shadow to design many of the classic layouts of the 1920s. What makes his designs so intriguing is that he excelled in taking certain strategic design principles found on famous holes in Scotland and adapting them to the terrain of each of his courses. This is the blueprint that Macdonald followed at the National and Raynor used it with particular flair and creativity in the parkland setting of Camargo. Camargo's par threes feature an Eden based on the 11 th hole at St. Andrews, a Short modeled on the fifth at Royal West Norfolk, a Redan based on the 15th hole at North Berwick, and a Biarritz. Tom Doak,  who is responsible for the restoration of Raynor's original features at Yeamans Hall in South Carolina, has also done a restoration at Camargo. One of Camargo's members is Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon.