Town Rankings / Oklahoma

The Best Golf Courses in Edmond

Edmond is Oklahoma City's polished northern suburb, and its golf has a hard edge that the cul-de-sacs do not prepare you for. Pete Dye built his Oklahoma flagship here, a course designed to test the best players in the country, and it has spent decades doing exactly that. Then, at the other end of town, the city runs its own course and renovated it in 2023. Between those two poles sits the whole story of golf in Edmond: championship severity at the top, public golf taken seriously at the bottom.

We score the golf first, then the day, then access. The top of this list is severe and undisputed. The interest is in how the rest sorts out underneath it.

1Oak Tree National Golf Club

Dye's hard Oklahoma flagship, host of a PGA Championship and a U.S. Amateur. Tournament hosts get chosen for many reasons, but courses get remembered for one: they made great players uncomfortable. Oak Tree National has that reputation honestly. Dye in this mode was not building resort variety. He was building an examination, long and exacting, and the fields it has hosted have rarely left feeling the exam was unfair, just that it was hard.

That is the case for No. 1, and in Edmond there is no counter-case. The concession is that this is members' and champions' golf, ferociously difficult for the ordinary player and closed to nearly everyone. A course can be the best in town and still be the wrong recommendation for most golfers in it. Oak Tree National is exactly that, and it would not care.

2Oak Tree Country Club

Sharing a name and a suburb with the National invites a comparison the Country Club can only lose, so let us judge it on its own terms: it is the fuller club life, the place where Edmond's golf families actually live their summers, with the National looming as the famous sibling across the way. The golf here is a step down in severity and, for most players, a step up in enjoyment, which is not nothing. Plenty of golfers given one round at either would score better, and smile more, here.

Second place in this town, though, means second to a major championship venue designed by Dye to be hard. There are worse things to be, and most towns in Oklahoma would take Oak Tree Country Club as their No. 1 without blinking.

3KickingBird Golf Club

KickingBird is Edmond's city course, and the city renovated it in 2023. Municipal reinvestment is the healthiest sign in American golf right now, because it means a town looked at its public course and decided it mattered. A renovated KickingBird jumps this ranking's public competitors, including one below, because the golfer who plays most of Edmond's rounds plays them here, on a course the city has just spent money to improve.

The concession is ceiling. KickingBird is not challenging the Oak Tree courses on design, and a ranking based purely on architecture would still put it third, which is where we have it. But on value and access, the third leg of what we score, it laps the field above it. Anyone can play the third-best course in Edmond. That sentence cannot be written about the first two.

4Coffee Creek Golf Club

Coffee Creek rounds out the bench as the neighborhood option, the course for golfers in Edmond's subdivisions who want a playable round close to home without the country club commitment or a drive across town. It does that job without fuss.

Fourth here is a statement about depth, not disgrace. Most suburbs would happily swap their fourth course for a renovated muni at third and a Dye flagship at first. Coffee Creek's golfers get a playable home course in a town where the top of the market is as strong as anywhere in the state.

Edmond finishes where it started: Dye's examination at the top, a city that bothered to renovate its muni at the bottom, and a suburb that takes both ends of the game seriously.