Alaska has less than 30 courses, and it will never be in the same conversation as Florida, Arizona or California for sunshine or golf. That doesn’t mean there are no opportunities to tee it up in the Last Frontier.
Even the U.S. Golf Association has made it a point to get to Alaska, hosting the 2022 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur at Anchorage Golf Course. That layout sits as the No. 1 public-access course in Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play state-by-state rankings.
Speaking of those Golfweek’s Best rankings, for most states we generate lists of best public and private courses. For Alaska, there simply isn’t enough golf for both lists. All the courses listed below welcome public play.
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Golfweek’s Best offers many lists of course rankings, with the list of top public-access courses among the most popular. All the courses on this list allow public access in some fashion, be it standard daily green fees, through a resort or by staying at an affiliated hotel. If there’s a will, there’s a tee time.
The Creek Course at Moose Run Golf Course at Elmendorf-Richardson Base in the Anchorage area. (Courtesy of Moose Run)
1. Anchorage GC
Anchorage (m)
2. Chena Bend
Fairbanks (m)
3. Moose Run (Creek)
Fort Richardson (m)
4. Palmer GC
Palmer (m)
5. Moose Run (Hill)
Fort Richardson (c)
(m): Modern course, built in or after 1960
(c): Classic course, built before 1960
The hundreds of members of the Golfweek’s Best 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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