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The best golf courses in Oregon

By Derek Duncan and Stephen Hennessey
May 29, 2025
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One of American golf’s great debates, for those lucky enough to have played on the southern Oregon coast, is which course at Bandon Dunes Resort is the best. For our 1,900 course-ranking panelists, the consensus is the Tom Doak-designed Pacific Dunes, ranked No. 1 again in our ranking of the Best Golf Courses in Oregon. Truth is, ask anybody, and they'll tell you why a different course at Bandon Dunes is their favorite. That's the beauty of golf course rankings—it encourages conversation and banter about what makes a golf course great. Our rankings attempt to assign objectiveness to the endeavor, and the results are below. 

For those who are intimately familiar with golf in Oregon, there's more to golf in Oregon than just Bandon. Our new Best in State ranking reflects the depth of great golf in The Beaver State.

Below you'll find our 2025-'26 ranking of the Best Golf Courses in Oregon.

Scroll on for the complete list of the best courses in Oregon. Be sure to click through to each individual course page for bonus photography and reviews from our course panelists. We also encourage you to leave your own ratings … so you can make your case for (or against) any course that you've played.

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18. Brasada Canyons
Powell Butte, OR
4
5 Panelists
Previous rank: NR
Brasada Canyons is one of the best golf courses in Oregon. Discover our experts' reviews and course information.
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17. Portland Golf Club
Portland, OR
4.3
4 Panelists
Previous rank: NR
Oregon native Dan Hixson has overseen an extensive remodeling of Portland Golf Club, most notably repositioning and rebuilding bunkers to match the understated, classic aesthetic of the 1914 design. Hixson and his team also restored original green sizes to reclaim pin positions—and a tree-removal program continues to improve the agronomics and playability.
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16. Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club: Ghost Creek
North Plains, OR
4
9 Panelists
Previous rank: NR
The 36-hole facility at Pumpkin Ridge has one public course, Ghost Creek, and a private layout, Witch Hollow. Ghost Creek, a former member of our 100 Greatest Public list, is a challenging layout with the winding title creek coming into play on many holes. In 2000, the Bob Cupp design hosted both the U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Girls’ Junior. The private Witch Hollow course, also on property, may be best known for Tiger Woods’ dramatic third consecutive U.S. Amateur win in 1996.
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15. Columbia Edgewater Country Club
Portland, OR
3.6
5 Panelists
Previous rank: 14
Columbia Edgewater Country Club is one of the best courses in Oregon. Discover our experts' reviews and where Columbia Edgewater Country Club ranks in our rankings
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14. Silvies Valley Ranch: Hankins
Seneca, OR
4.1
6 Panelists
Previous rank: 15
Silvies Valley Ranch's Hankins and Craddock courses in Seneca, Oregon, are among the best courses in Oregon. Discover our experts' reviews and how to book a tee time
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13. Silvies Valley Ranch: Craddock
Seneca, OR
4.1
6 Panelists
Previous rank: 13
Silvies Valley Ranch's Hankins and Craddock courses in Seneca, Oregon, are among the best courses in Oregon. Discover our experts' reviews and how to book a tee time
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12. Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club: Witch Hollow
North Plains, OR
4.3
11 Panelists
Previous rank: 12
Pumpkin Ridge: Witch Hollow in North Plains is one of the best courses in Oregon. Discover our experts' reviews and where Pumpkin Ridge ranks in our rankings.
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11. Crosswater Golf Course
Sunriver, OR
4.1
14 Panelists
Previous rank: 9
Part of Crosswater was reportedly built in the meadow where John Wayne, as Rooster Cogburn, filmed his climactic charge with guns blazing in the 1969 film, True Grit. The Bob Cupp design is far more subtle than a Wayne Western, with low-profile greens edged by graceful chipping areas and fairways intersected repeatedly by the Big and Little Deschutes rivers. Crosswater was Golf Digest's Best New Resort Course of 1995.
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10. Waverley Country Club
Portland, OR
4.1
4 Panelists
Previous rank: 11
Waverley Country Club is one of the best courses in Oregon. Check our experts' reviews and how they rate the courses.
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9. Tetherow Golf Club
Bend, OR
4.2
13 Panelists
Previous rank: 10
A decade after David McLay Kidd established his architectural reputation with the original Bandon Dunes course, he returned to Oregon, settled in Bend and built another dazzling course, Tetherow. Far different than Bandon, with a manufactured landscape of lumps and bumps, far more bunkers, plus a couple of lakes, it nonetheless has the same fescue as at Bandon, so tee shots get plenty of roll and some approach shots can be bounced into flagsticks. The big difference is that Tetherow is a bear to play and demands a high degree of strength and skill to put up a good score, whereas Bandon Dunes creates opportunity when the wind isn't whipping. This design marked the beginning of Kidd's wandering phase, where he lost sight of the reason most golfers enjoy the game and built a series of impressive and attractive but unforgiving courses. Even he admits Tetherow can be too penalizing. His response was Gamble Sands and Mammoth Dunes, where tactics and recoverability take precedence over strict shot-making.
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8. Pronghorn Club at Juniper Preserve
Bend, OR
4.2
18 Panelists
Previous rank: 8
When it first opened in 2004, Pronghorn was strictly private, and its Nicklaus Course was ranked No. 2 by Golf Digest among America’s Best New Private Courses (a second members-only 18 from Tom Fazio opened three years later). A few years back, the club began allowing public play on its Nicklaus design, now ranked No. 42 on America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses. It’s a beauty. The second nine, carved from a flow of volcanic rock, might be the most delightful Jack has ever designed, with gambling holes and gorgeous scenery at every turn. The shaping is gentle and subdued to create holes that sit low on the land and slide through washes of exposed sand, native grasses and low pines and evergreens.
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7. Eugene Country Club
Eugene, OR
4.2
16 Panelists
Previous rank: 7
Eugene was the site of one of golf's most profound renovations in 1965 when Robert Trent Jones reversed the direction of each hole on the H.C. Egan design, building long tee boxes, all new greens and stylized bunkers that pinch targets and turn doglegs—turning Eugene Country Club into one of the most challenging in the Pacific Northwest. The 2021 renovation wasn’t so radical, but the changes initiated by Tim Jackson and David Kahn have made the course more thought-provoking through the shifting of tees, remodeling of bunkers, the expansion of greens that bring more hole locations into play and a renewed emphasis on using the unique ground contours and swales as more strategically influential factors. The towering Douglas fir trees still frame each hole and influence much of a golfer's strategy from tee to green.
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6. Pronghorn Club at Juniper Preserve (Fazio Course)
Bend, OR
4.2
6 Panelists
Previous rank: 6
Pronghorn Resort's Fazio Course in Bend is one of the best courses in Oregon. Discover our experts' reviews and where Pronghorn ranks in our rankings.
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5. Sheep Ranch
Bandon, OR
4.4
33 Panelists
Previous rank: 5
Sheep Ranch began life as a different Sheep Ranch in the early 2000s, a rag-tag, cross-country, 13-hole course with no irrigation built by Tom Doak on a bluff just north of what would later become Old Macdonald. It was a little-used recreation that only insiders knew about. Mike Keiser tapped Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw to convert it into Bandon Dunes’ fifth regulation 18-hole course and Coore and Crenshaw’s second. Spread across an open, windswept plateau, using many of the same greensites, Coore managed to triangulate the holes in such a way that nine now touch the cliff edge along the Pacific Ocean. Extremely wide fairways, large putting surfaces and sandless bunkers allow the exposed course to be playable in extreme winds. Though it's slipped behind its Bandon brethren in the rankings, Sheep Ranch nevertheless accomplishes the most difficult of feats for resort courses—distinction among equals.
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4. Old Macdonald
Bandon, OR
4.6
53 Panelists
Previous rank: 3
Old Mike Keiser had a course. Name of Bandon Dunes. Hugged the cliffs of Oregon gorse. It made golfers swoon. So he added one more, then a third next door. Here a lodge, there a hut, even built a pitch & putt. Now it's America's top resort. Name of Bandon Dunes. But Old Mike Keiser wanted more. Down at Bandon Dunes. An ode to an architect he adored. Cut from heather and broom. So Old Macdonald came to be. In spite of a bad economy. Here it's big, there it's bold. Everywhere it looks real old. A Road Hole here, a Cape Hole there. Bottle Hole, Biarritz, ocean winds that'll give you fits. Short and Eden fit the scenes. Especially with enormous greens. Old Macdonald is part of the lore. Now at Bandon Dunes.
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3. Bandon Trails
Bandon, OR
4.6
53 Panelists
Previous rank: 4
The only one of Bandon Dunes' five 18-hole courses that isn't immediately adjacent to the Pacific coastline, Bandon Trails scores points other ways, taking players on a fantastic journey through three distinct ecosystems. The course starts in serious sand dunes, then turns inward toward meadows and dense Oregon rainforest, climbing toward an upper section at holes nine through 13. Fourteen is a love-it-or-hate-it par 4 to a thumb of a green personally fashioned by Crenshaw that can be driven with an unerring tee shot off a high bluff, dropping the holes back to the meadows and ultimately to the dunes at 17 and 18. Bump-and-run is the name of the game, but the structure of each hole requires thoughtful bumps and targeted runs. Bandon Trails is the favorite course of many Bandon Dunes frequenters, and for the first time in our rankings, it sits ahead of Old Macdonald, passing its neighbor to sit in its highest spot on our list in its history.
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2. Bandon Dunes
Bandon, OR
4.7
55 Panelists
Previous rank: 2
Chicago recycled-products mogul Mike Keiser took a gamble when he chose then-tenderfoot architect David McLay Kidd to design a destination daily fee on the remote southwestern coastline of Oregon. But the design Kidd produced, faithful to the links-golf tenets of his native Scotland, proved so popular that today Keiser has a multiple-course resort at Bandon Dunes that rivals Pinehurst and the Monterey Peninsula—or perhaps exceeds them, given that all five Bandon courses are ranked on our 200 Greatest, four in the top 100. None of that would have happened if McLay Kidd hadn’t produced a great first design that drew golfers into its orbit.
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1. Pacific Dunes
Bandon, OR
4.9
60 Panelists
Previous rank: 1
This was the second course constructed at Bandon Dunes Resort and the highest-ranked among the resort’s five 18s. To best utilize ocean frontage, Tom Doak came up with an unorthodox routing that includes four par 3s on the back nine. Holes seem to emerge from the landscape rather than being superimposed onto it with rolling greens and rumpled fairways framed by rugged sand dunes and marvelously grotesque bunkers. The secret is that Doak moved a lot of earth in some places to make it look like he moved very little, but the result is a course with sensual movements, like a tango that steps toward the coast and back again, dipping in and out of different playing arenas from the secluded sand blowouts to the exposed bluffs and all variations in between.
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