A round for 4 at The Reserve at Moonlight Basin with carts included. Nicklaus Design, home of "The Match" 2022 featuring Phil Mickelson, Tom Brady, Bryson DeChambeau and Aaron Rodgers.

Debuting in 2023, The Reserve at Moonlight Basin became just the third Montana course to crack the national rankings, joining Tom Doak’s Rock Creek Cattle Company and Robert Trent Jones’s Yellowstone Country Club (with Tom Fazio’s Stock Farm entering this year at No. 185). Set near Big Sky at roughly 7,500 feet, Jack Nicklaus’s design is the highest-elevation course on the list, carved across a former ski mountain with wraparound views of the Rockies. The routing slaloms over varied terrain, and while the card stretches to 8,000 yards, the thin air and frequent downhill shots temper the length—precision in predicting carry and rollout is the real test. Standout vistas frame holes like the opening par 4 and the 700-plus-yard par-5 17th, offering drama for players and spectators alike.