America's Best New Courses of 2009

America's Best New Courses of 2009 are all about old school.All four Best New winners were designed by senior golfers with decades of grit, experience and wisdom under their fingernails, working the old-fashioned way: by hand, in the field, not a blueprint among the four winners.
All four are courses built for the purest of reasons, the sheer enjoyment of the game, to be played on foot, using landforms that encourage the old-style bounce-and-roll game, where you play to a spot and let a slope feed the ball to the target, and only fools fire directly at the flag. And the winners are . . . .