In the years after the revelatory Sand Hills Golf Club opened and began accruing acclaim, roughly nine 18-hole golf courses were built within the Nebraska Sandhills. Of all the Sand Hills successors, CapRock Ranch flies closest to that particular sun.

The Sandhills region features perfect land for golf across almost every square inch of its more than 12 million acres. This is a blessing and a curse, as the landscape creates unlimited opportunities for golf holes, making it hard to narrow a design down to just 18 en route to a cohesive sequence. Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw famously took several years exploring the towering dunes and coming up with 100+ different hole options for Sand Hills. Their diligence paid off.

Via Matt Rouches on Fried Egg Golf