3 New Golf Courses To Play In Late 2026 And Track Forever In Golfed

If you like chasing new golf courses, the back half of 2026 is shaping up as a really fun window to travel, explore and add some fresh layouts to your personal course history. The best part is that you can now track every new course you play inside Golfed, so those trips do more than just live in your camera roll.

In this guide, we will look at three of the most anticipated 18 hole openings for late 2026, what to expect at each, and how to log those rounds in Golfed so you can actually see how you performed on some of the biggest new courses in the country.

Bone Valley at Streamsong (Florida)

Streamsong has already become one of the top golf destinations in the United States, with Red, Blue and Black all ranked near the top of public course lists. In 2026, the resort is adding a new David McLay Kidd design called Bone Valley, routed across dramatic ridgelines and natural bowls formed by phosphate mining on the property.

You can learn more about the course directly from the resort on the Bone Valley page at Streamsong Resort. If you want a detailed look at the routing, yardages and early impressions from architecture-minded golfers, the Top 100 Golf Courses profile for Streamsong Bone Valley is a great resource. It confirms that preview play opens on October 30, 2026, with an official grand opening scheduled for January 26, 2027.

Golf media spent months speculating on the name of Streamsong's new course, and Golf Digest covered the announcement when the resort confirmed "Bone Valley" instead of another color name. You can read that story here: Golf Digest on Streamsong's new Bone Valley course name. That piece explains how the name connects to the prehistoric history of the site and why the resort broke from its original naming convention.

Preview play for Bone Valley is scheduled to begin October 30, 2026, and then the course opens fully in January 2027. That means late 2026 is your opportunity to be among the first golfers to get a look at the new course during its preview window.

Media coverage describes Bone Valley as a bold, strategic layout with wide playing corridors, firm and fast conditions and a more untamed look than Streamsong's first three courses. Architects and writers keep coming back to the way the design uses the tall dunes and ancient ridges, creating big scale visuals and interesting ground options for approach shots.

If you are planning a Streamsong trip for the end of 2026, Bone Valley should be on your radar even if you only get a preview loop. It is the kind of course that will show up in your golf feeds all winter, and playing it early gives you a story plus a fresh entry in your Golfed course list. If Streamsong is on your bigger bucket list, our guide to the best resort golf destinations in the US is a good next read.

How to track Bone Valley in Golfed

• Add Streamsong Resort to your Golfed course list, and create a new entry for Bone Valley once tee times open for preview play.
• Log your first round with hole by hole scores, putts and penalties so you can compare your performance against your rounds on Red, Blue and Black.
• Tag the round as a "New 2026 Course" in your notes so it is easy to filter later when you look back on your year of new courses.

Wild Spring Dunes (Texas)

Wild Spring Dunes is an emerging destination in east Texas, built on surprisingly hilly, sandy terrain with a new Tom Doak 18 hole course as the centerpiece. Eight holes opened for preview play in late 2025, giving early visitors a taste of the routing while the rest of the course was seeded and growing in.

The resort's own information now shows that the full Tom Doak course enters a private play window in mid 2026 and opens for public play beginning September 8, 2026, with 18 hole tee times available through March 2027. You can see those details and learn more about the golf experience on the Golf at Wild Spring Dunes page. That puts Wild Spring Dunes firmly in the "new course you can actually book and play" category for the back half of 2026.

Writers who have visited so far point to the natural dunes, the walking only experience and the minimalist approach to shaping as reasons this should quickly become a Texas bucket list stop. With multiple courses planned for the future, the resort is being talked about as a kind of Texas answer to places like Sand Valley, where architecture-focused golfers travel specifically for the golf.

For Houston and regional golfers, this is probably the most realistic new high profile course to add to your list in late 2026. It is drivable, it is public for part of the year and it offers something visually very different from the typical Texas parkland layout. If you are already thinking about the trip, our guide to planning a golf trip walks through booking windows, transportation and everything else worth locking down early.

How to track Wild Spring Dunes in Golfed

• Search for Wild Spring Dunes in Golfed as the database grows, or manually add it as a new course with yardages, par and hole names from the scorecard.
• Record your first 18 hole round there with full stats, including fairways, greens in regulation, putts and penalties, so you can see how you handled the dunes and elevation.
• Use Golfed to tag Wild Spring Dunes as a "Destination Course," and compare stats from this trip to your home course rounds to see how your game travels.

Trout National – The Reserve (New Jersey)

Trout National – The Reserve is a new private destination club in southern New Jersey, developed by Mike Trout with a TGR Design course by Tiger Woods on a reclaimed silica mine site. The routing sits about 30 miles from Pine Valley and blends wide fairways, large sandy waste areas and bold green complexes to create a modern sand belt style experience.

For an overview of the course, layout and numbers, you can check the Trout National – The Reserve page on Top 100 Golf Courses. If you want a more player-focused view, GolfPass has a course listing with stats, photos and reviews here: The Reserve at Trout National on GolfPass.

The course has now opened for member and guest play, with a grand opening in April 2026 and full operations through the second half of the year. Early descriptions list Trout National – The Reserve as an 18 hole par 72 course that stretches to just over 7000 yards from the back tees, with a rating around 73.5 and slope near 134, signaling a championship-level test.

Coverage from architecture sites and general golf media focuses on the star power of Trout and Woods, the quality of the practice facilities and short course, and the way the design uses the sand-based terrain to create multiple playing options on each hole. Even though access will be limited, it is already being discussed as one of the most important new private clubs in the United States for 2026.

Most golfers will only ever play The Reserve as a guest, but that makes it a perfect "lifetime memory" course to record in Golfed. Adding this round to your personal golf history makes sure it is not just a story you tell, but a set of stats you can look back on.

How to track Trout National in Golfed

• When you get the invitation, add Trout National – The Reserve to your Golfed course list before you tee off, entering the full yardage and par information from the card.
• Track your round hole by hole, even if it is not your lowest score, so you can see how you handled the long par fours and sandy hazards.
• Add notes in Golfed about who you played with and what the experience was like, because this is exactly the kind of private club round you will want to remember ten years from now.

Using Golfed To Build Your 2026 New Course Checklist

Golfed helps golfers keep track of every course they play over time, so their history sits in one place instead of scattered across memories, group chats and camera rolls. Golfed acts as your course logbook, round tracker and personal golf database, all in one app.

For late 2026, you can use Golfed to build a simple new course checklist:

• Create a tag or note for "New in 2026" and apply it to any course you play for the first time this year.
• Add Bone Valley, Wild Spring Dunes and Trout National to your list as you get access and tee times.
• At the end of the year, filter your Golfed rounds to show only "New in 2026," so you can see how many new courses you played, which ones fit your game and where you might want to return.

Because Golfed ties specific courses to specific rounds and stats, you can go beyond memories and see hard data like average score, fairways hit and greens in regulation at each new destination. That is the kind of information that helps you understand how your game travels and where you really improved during the season. If tracking every course you play is new to you, this guide walks through the best way to do it.

Ready To Track Your Next New Course?

If you are planning trips to any of these new 18 hole courses in 2026, or just want a better way to track your golf course history, now is the time to start using Golfed.

You can download Golfed on the App Store and Google Play, create your account and start logging your local rounds today, then layer in these new destination courses as they open later this year.