2010 Best New Courses...Whitten Only Edition

With only 24 courses opening this year and even fewer on the horizon, Golf Digest's Ron Whitten offers a summary of the best stuff he saw in 2010. Included was Gil Hanse's Castle Stuart and a nice mention of our H-O-R-S-E course at Prairie Club.

The maraschino cherry on this double dip is the 10-hole Horse Course, perched on the rim of the Snake River, next to a 38-room lodge. Laid out by the ubiquitous Gil Hanse, it's a short course meant to be played like H-O-R-S-E in basketball, with the winner of the previous hole choosing the shot and lie for the next. Owner/co-founder Paul Schock has already commissioned Hanse and Geoff Shackelford to design another full 18 for his resort.

Other categories from Whitten: LIGHTNING ROD OF THE YEAR, GOLF HOLE OF THE YEAR, ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR, OVERSEAS DESTINATION OF THE YEAR, EXTREME MAKEOVERS, OTHERS THAT CAUGHT MY FANCY.