Where can you find the best private golf courses in each state? Welcome to Golfweek’s Best 2025 list of the top private layouts, as judged by our hundreds of raters.

The members of the ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on 10 criteria on a points basis of 1 through 10. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings are averaged to produce these rankings.

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