Sand Hills Golf Club
History
Sand Hills Golf Club, opened in 1995 in remote Nebraska, sparked a revolution in minimalist golf course design. Architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw moved only 4,000 cubic yards of earth, finding over 130 natural golf holes in the undulating terrain during two years of surveying. The result is a masterpiece of naturalistic design, with firm fast turf, massive natural bunkers, and ridgelines of astonishing beauty. Its deliberate inaccessibility and plain clubhouse reinforce its identity as pure golf stripped of all pretense. It is consistently ranked among the three best courses built since 1960 and has influenced a generation of minimalist designers.
Signature Hole
8th hole, par 4, 403 yards — a sweeping dogleg right with a heroic tee shot over natural sandhills to a wind-swept fairway