Golfweek's Best 2025: The top 100 international courses
New for 2025 at Gamble Sands: Scarecrow Golfweek's Jason Lusk visited the beautiful new golf course in Washington at Gamble Sands. Welcome to Golfweek’s Best 2025 ranking of the Top 100 International Courses, our list of the greatest layouts outside the U.S. The hundreds of members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those individual ratings on each course are averaged to produce an overall rating. Each course is then ranked against other courses in the region.How we rank courses This list focuses on the golf courses themselves, not resorts as a whole or other club amenities....