Kiva Dunes is a public
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
course located in
Baldwin County, just west of
Gulf Shores, Alabama
Gulf Shores is a resort city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 9,741.
Geography
Gulf Shores is located on the Gulf of Mexico at 30°16'4.069" North, 87°42'5.285" West (30.267797, −87.70 ...
. The course was designed by professional golfer
Jerry Pate
Jerome Kendrick Pate (born September 16, 1953) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour Champions, formerly on the PGA Tour. As a 22-year-old rookie, he won the U.S. Open in 1976.
Early years
Born in Macon, Georgia, Pate grew up in the ...
, and was immediately ranked #2 in
Golf Digest
''Golf Digest'' is a monthly golf magazine published by Warner Bros. Discovery through its sports unit under its Warner Bros. Discovery Golf division. It is a generalist golf publication covering recreational golf and men's and women's competiti ...
's ''Best New Public Course (US)'' when it opened in 1995. More recently, the publication ranked the course #58 on ''America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses''. GolfLink currently lists Kiva Dunes as one of the best golf course in the stat
and it is ranked #44 in Golf Week's
Top 100 Resort Courses' and #76 in their
Top 100 Residential Courses'.
References
External links
Kiva Dunes Home Page
Buildings and structures in Baldwin County, Alabama
Landmarks in Alabama
Golf clubs and courses in Alabama
Tourist attractions in Baldwin County, Alabama
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