There is good reason why Pine Valley Golf Club has been ranked as the No. 1 course in the United States in every America's 100 Greatest ranking except in four cases since 1985 (2000, when Pebble Beach unseated it and 2009, 2011 and 2015 when Augusta National was ranked No. 1). Some of the best Golden Age architects—H.S. Colt, A.W. Tillinghast, George C. Thomas Jr. and Walter Travis—joined founder George Crump in routing what is referred to as the most unique 18-hole collection in the world. Hugh Wilson, architect of Merion, and his brother, Alan, finished the job just a couple years later.