The 20 best TPC golf courses, ranked

The ranking of the 20 best TPC golf courses traces the TPC network’s expansion from TPC Sawgrass, which began the Tournament Players Club model in the 1980s as the first PGA Tour-owned and operated club. It revisits the concept’s origins and credits Deane Beman for a major era of growth, noting that in 1988 the PGA Tour owned eight courses, while today the network includes nearly 30 courses, private and public-access, with many other facilities sold or renamed. The list is ordered using scores from Golf Digest course-ranking panelists based on recent Golf Digest reference rankings. The article emphasizes that readers can open individual course pages for photos and panelist reviews and are invited to add their own ratings. The excerpt begins the rankings at No. 20 with TPC Michigan (Dearborn, MI) and No. 19 with TPC Las Vegas (NV), followed by additional entries.