Pasatiempo Golf Club

Alister MacKenzie opened Pasatiempo in September 1929, his favorite of his own American designs, and his home until his death. Bobby Jones was in the first group to play it. MacKenzie also designed Augusta National and Cypress Point; Pasatiempo shares the same tactical, angular, reward-the-thinker design DNA but is semi-private and playable for non-members. Golf Digest places it 15th on 2025 America's Greatest (93rd overall on the 100 Greatest), a perennial Top 100 property that ranked 77th at its peak (2001-02) and has reappeared on the list consistently since 2021. Golf Magazine ranks it 11th on Top 100 Courses You Can Play 2024-25, and it ranks among Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the U.S. For MacKenzie devotees, this is the one American design you can actually play without a member invite, and the one he himself would have picked.