Best Golf Courses in West Virginia for 2024-25

As part of GOLF’s rigorous assessment process for our newcomers Top 100 courses in the USA AND The best 100 courses you can play ranking, our fleet of 100-plus expert panelists identified the best golf courses in each state.

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Best Golf Courses in West Virginia (2024/2025)

SYMBOL GUIDE
# = Top 100 courses in the USA
Y = Top 100 you can play in USA
V = The 100 most valuable courses in the USA
P = Public/Resort

Ed. Note: Some subjects were removed from our ranking because they did not receive enough votes.

1. Pikewood National (Morgantown) (#)

Built by two mining executives with no prior design experience, Pikewood National is pure golf for the avid golfer. This walk-only course covers seven miles and more with huge elevation changes, and the walk is more than worth the effort to experience one of the game’s most scenic and conditioned layouts. Perched atop a mesa, 30-mile views are routinely offered in three different states. Pikewood’s collection of one-stroke holes is second to none, including the 5th, which is backed by a natural waterfall, and the 12th, with its expertly contoured modified Redan green. Triple holes are also visible, led by the horseshoe 8, which plays around an open, rocky depression. The relative lack of bunkers adds to the uniqueness of the design. How these first-time architects built so many world-class greens is worthy of conversation. The best of the bunch might be the bunker-free 11th green with a nasty surface that slopes from front to back.

2. Pete Dye (Bridgeport)

3. Greenbrier – Old White (White Sulfur) (Y, P)

A Golden Age classic that is always in pristine condition, The Old White is one of the few CB Macdonald models that the public can play. The Greenbrier’s signature course offers a large array of template holes, including Biarritz, Alps, Eden and Redan. The peculiarities here – only 2 par-5s (both on the back side), par-3 closer – only add to the charm. It’s also a surprisingly great ride considering it’s one of the country’s best mountain courses. Old White has hosted PGA Tour and LIV events, and the service is second to none. It can hold more than your next golfing adventure.

4. Greenbrier Sporting Club – Snead (White Sulfur Springs) (P)

5. Glade Springs (Daniels) (P)

How we rank our courses

For our newly released US Top 100 and Top 100 Playable lists—a process that helped us create the top 50 rankings in the country—each panelist was given a ballot consisting of 609 courses. . Alongside the list of courses were 11 “buckets” or groupings. If our panelists deemed a course to be among the top three in the US, they marked the first column. If they believed the rate was between numbers 4-10, they checked that column, followed by 11-25, 26-50 and so on up to 250+ and even a column for “remove”. Panelists were also free to write in courses they felt should have been included on the ballot.

Points were assigned to each bucket; to arrive at an average score for each course, we divide its total score by the number of votes. From these point totals, courses are then ranked accordingly. It’s an intentionally simple and straightforward process. Why? Because it has historically produced results that are widely praised. Like the game itself, there’s no need to overcomplicate things or try to fix something that already works so well.

The key to the process is the experience and expertise of our panel. Hailing from 15 nations and all the golfing meccas around the world, each of our 127 hand-picked panelists has a keen eye for architecture, both regionally and globally. Many of our panelists have played more than 1000 courses in over 20 countries, some over 2000. Their handicaps range from +5 to +15.

Because the nature of course evaluation is so intensely subjective, no opinion counts. The only way, then, to build meaningful consensus is to incorporate this diversity of panelists and experiences into a ranking.

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