Green Mountain National Golf Club

The Geoffrey Cornish design threads through Vermont's rolling terrain with surgical precision, demanding course management over raw distance on nearly every hole. Elevated tees reveal dramatic vistas of the Green Mountains while creating optical illusions that can fool even single-digit handicappers—the par-4 12th drops 150 feet from tee to green, making club selection an exercise in faith and physics. What separates this mountain track from resort fluff is Cornish's genius for using natural contours to create strategic options, particularly on approach shots where missing on the wrong side means watching your ball tumble into valleys you didn't know existed.