Teton Pines Resort and Country Club - Wyoming, U.S.A.

Teton Pines Resort and Country Club is located in Wyoming's Jackson Hole Valley, at the base of the massifs of the Teton Mountain Range. Seven miles west of the town of Jackson, the resort's course was designed by Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay over a former cattle ranch. Opened in 1987, the course is ringed with 40 acres of ponds and streams, with water coming into play on 16 of the 18 holes. The verdant, flat course runs along the valley floor sandwiched between the creased spires of the Tetons and the Snake River, which flows the entire length of the 50-mile-long valley.

Sunriver Resort (Crosswater Course) - Oregon, U.S.A.

The Sunriver Resort is the centerpiece of central Oregon's golf haven. Located just south of the town of Bend, and shielded by the Cascade Mountains to the west, Sunriver can boast 300 days of sunshine a year. Of Sunriver's three courses, the premier 18 is the Crosswater Course, completed in 1995 by the design team of Bob Cupp and John Fought. The course spreads over a bucolic meadow, its fairways surrounded by colorful native grasses, wetlands, and solitary ponderosa pines with the Cascades and Mount Bachelor in the background. Crosswater is criss-crossed by the Deschutes and Little Deschutes Rivers, requiring as many as 16 forced carries, which give rise to the course's self-descriptive name. The long, rippling meadow is where two John Wayne Westerns, True Grit and Rooster Cogburn, were filmed.