Robert Trent Jones Golf Club - Virginia, U.S.A.

The Robert Trent Jones Golf Club is a tribute to its designer, who dominated golf Course architecture both in the United States and internationally, leaving his indelible mark on some 450 courses in 45 states and 29 countries. RTJ, which coils around Lake Manassass, the 850-acre reservoir in northern Virginia's Prince William County, is a gathering place for movers and shakers from inside the Beltway. Jones first discovered the sylvan property in the late 1970s, but it was not until his Ft. Lauderdale neighbor, Wendy's founder Dave Thomas, put him in touch with developer Clay Hamner in the mid-80s that the project became a reality. Completed in 1990, when Jones was at the end of his career, half of the holes cavort along the banks of the lake, including six on the back nine, and there are two inland ponds to boot. All of this has made for high drama at the Presidents Cup, which the club has hosted three times beginning with the inaugural match in 1994, with the U.S. team victorious each time. RTJ will host the Presidents Cup again in 2005. The clubhouse is presidential in stature, a red-brick Georgian mansion with a colonnaded rotunda.

The Greenbrier - West Virginia, U.S.A.

The Greenbrier is one of America's grandest and oldest golf resorts, set on 6,500 acres in the Allegheny mountains in White Sulphur Springs. Over the years the resort has been a favorite golfing haven for presidents and high-powered Washington politicians. Twenty-two presidents have slept in the white Georgian hotel with its towering portico. There are three courses at the Greenbrier. The Old White Course, named for the original hotel that stood from 1858 to 1922, was designed by Charles Dlair Macdonald in 1913, and remains one of America's finest mountain courses. Robert Trent Jones chose the first hole of the Old White for the dream 18-hole course he put together for an article that appeared in Town & Country in 1938. The Greenbrier Course, designed by Seth Raynor in 1924, was revised by Jack Nicklaus when the course was selected as the site for the 1979 Ryder Cup Matches. From the ninth tee, there is a view of the Midland Gap in the Allegeheny Mountains, where the early settlers passed through on their way to the West. In 1999, the Lakeside Course, designed by Dick Wilson in the 1960s,  was completely revamped by Bob Cupp. The Course was renamed the Meadows, harkening back to the original nine-hole course built in the stream valley known as "the meadows."