Two modern golf courses in Kansas — one in the Wichita area, and one in the Kansas City area — have been ranked among the nation’s best.
That’s according to Golfweek, a golf magazine part of USA Today, which sought to find the country’s top 200 modern golf courses. To make the list, the golf course had to have opened no earlier than 1960.
“Why 1960 as the breaking point between Modern and Classic?” Golfweek questioned. “The growth of golf in the modern era of design starts with its mass popularization, the appeal of the late Arnold Palmer and the result of bringing the game into the homes of television audiences. Courses were popping up everywhere. But it wasn’t just the market that changed … design and construction techniques for courses shifted fundamentally after 1960.”…