The Olympic Club
San Francisco, California
Par/length: 72/7,060 yards
TEL: 001 415 404 4300
WEBSITE: www.olyclub.com
GREEN FEE: Members only
DESIGNER: Sam Whiting/Willie Watson (1860)
DESCRIPTION: An incredibly tough golf course, which will hold the 2012 US Open, where threatening pines, cedars and cypress trees overhang many of the fairways. This means you have to be incredibly straight off the tee. Tom Weiscopf did some major modifications in the 1990s, after coastal erosion.