almost every metric used to rate a golf course, Augusta National Golf Club is first.

Augusta National is arguably the most famous golf course in the world, the most recognizable, the most celebrated and one of the most exclusive. Golf fans have drooled over Alister Mackenzie’s famed routing for centuries, while Masters participants oscillate between varied states of profound love and terror as they operate around National’s perfectly manicured fairways.

But where does it rank on GOLF’s Top 100 Courses list? Good question.

It may surprise you to learn that Augusta National isn’t the top-ranked golf course in the world, at least not according to GOLF’s Top 100 course raters. These architecturally driven experts are faced with the gargantuan task of playing and ranking many of the best golf courses on earth — and in their eyes, Augusta National belongs in the highest echelon of courses, but perhaps not at the very top of that list