The champagne is on ice. The countdown has started. Before you know it, 2022 will be upon us.

For the final days of 2021, we’ve been offering up a snapshot of the top 10 stories from each of Golfweek’s most popular sections, including travel, the PGA and LPGA tours, instruction and amateur golf. Here’s what we’ve already counted down.

Today, we’re focusing on one of the biggest areas for Golfweek — golf course lists.

Here’s a look at the top 10 golf course lists, as clicked on by you (we should note, this doesn’t include yardage books or the individual course stories that were featured on Thursday):

10. Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic islands and Central America

Teeth of the Dog at Casa de Campo (Courtesy of Casa de Campo)

A fun list comes courtesy of Golfweek’s Best golf courses in Mexico, the Caribbean, the Atlantic islands and Central America for 2021, first published in the print issue of Golfweek’s Ultimate Guide.

Click here to see the list.

9. Top 50 Modern International Courses

Tara Iti in New Zealand (Courtesy of Tara Iti/Joann Dost)

This year marked the initial Golfweek’s Best Modern International Courses list with the highest-rated courses outside the United States that were built in or after 1960.

This was the first year for this International Modern list, and it is comprised of thousands of individual ratings of courses around the world.

Take a peek at the stunning courses on this list.

8. Top 50 Casino Golf Courses

The Pete Dye course at the French Lick Resort in Indiana.

This list focuses on courses owned and/or operated by casinos, with data pulled from Golfweek‘s massive database of course rankings.

The hundreds of members of Golfweek‘s course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course.

Here’s a look at the casino list.

7. From Bandon Dunes to Shadow Creek, the top 200 golf courses that were built after 1960

Bandon Dunes Sheep Ranch The Sheep Ranch at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon (Courtesy of Bandon Dunes)

The Golfweek’s Best 2021 list of the top 200 Modern Courses, built in or after 1960 in the United States.

Each year we publish many lists, with this Top 200 Modern Courses and the accompanying Top 200 Classic Courses lists being the premium offerings.

Click here to see this list.

6. From Augusta National to Pebble Beach, these are the top 200 classic golf courses

The 15th hole of the Cypress Point Golf Course in California, circa 1999. (Photo by Phil Sheldon/Popperfoto/Getty Images) Cypress Point was built in the 1920s, a great decade for courses. (Photo by Phil Sheldon/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

This list features the top classic courses.

Courses must have a minimum of 25 votes to qualify for the top 200 Modern or the top 200 Classic. Other Golfweek’s Best lists, such as Best Courses You Can Play or Best Private, do not require as many votes. This makes it possible that a course can show up on other lists but not on the premium top-200 lists.

Here’s a look at this jam-packed list.

5. Top 200 Resort Golf Courses in the U.S.

Whistling Straits No. 18 from above. (Gabe Gudgel/Golfweek)

The Golfweek’s Best 2021 list of top resort golf courses in the United States was first published in the print issue of Golfweek’s Ultimate Guide.

The hundreds of members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged to produce a final, cumulative rating. Then each course is ranked against other courses in the region.

Here’s a look at this list.

4. Top 200 Residential Golf Courses in the U.S.

Champion Hills Champion Hills (Courtesy of Champion Hills)

Here’s the list of top residential golf courses in the United States, first published in the print issue of Golfweek’s Ultimate Guide.

These focus on courses within residential developments and include both private clubs and public-access tracks.

Click here to see this list.

3. Top 100 public golf courses across the U.S.

Bethpage Black’s par-5 fourth hole

If you’re looking for only the best in public-access golf, we’ve got you covered with this list of the top 100 Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play in the United States, as judged by our nationwide network of raters.

Here’s the full list.

2. Best private golf courses in every state

Augusta National No. 11

Where’s the best private golf in each state? With this list of Golfweek’s Best Private Courses, we present the best such layouts, as judged by our nationwide network of raters.

The members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged together to produce a final rating for each course. Each course is then ranked against other courses in its state to produce the final rankings.

Here is the complete ranking.

1. Best public golf courses you can play, state by state

Sweetens Cove The “heckledeck” overlooks the 9th green at Sweetens Cove.

Not a member somewhere? Not a problem.

With this list of Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play, we present the best public-access courses in each state, as judged by our nationwide network of raters.

All the courses on this list allow public access in some fashion, be it standard daily green fees, through a resort or by staying at an affiliated hotel. If there’s a will, there’s a tee time.

Here is the complete list, which happens to be our most well-clicked post of 2021.