If you were to play a different golf course every day — traveling from Anchorage to Auckland and from Vegas to Vanuatu — it would take nearly two and a half years to hit every venue designed by an architect of the Jones family. Robert Trent Jones, Robert Trent Jones Jr., and Rees Jones have crafted more than 800 courses worldwide. Following are nine that will have you Jonesing to tee off.

Sweet Trail Alabama
Huntsville, Birmingham, Montgomery, and Mobile, Ala., all offer access to the Robert Trent Jones Trail — a collection of 432 golf holes, all designed by the senior Jones, spread across 11 locations. Start at the Shoals — boasting two courses named Fighting Joe and the Schoolmaster — and shank and duck-hook your way south to Mobile to lose balls at Magnolia Grove’s three layouts, including a short course named by Golf Digest as the best par-3 track in the country. rtjgolf.com

Trips and Falls
A short trip from Buffalo, N.Y., and close to Niagara Falls, the Grand Niagara Resort is home to a 7,425-yard Rees Jones design at a new property featuring a water and wine theme. Fescue grasses and splashes of bunkers decorate otherwise welcoming fairways. Speaking of splashes, water encroaches on more than half the holes. grandniagararesort.com

Cordevalle Golf Course, near San Jose

Miho and You-ho
Like many private clubs in Japan, Miho Golf Club, two hours from Tokyo, offers play to foreign travelers. The user-friendly parkland course designed by RTJ II (the firm of Robert Jr.) unfurls through native oaks and evergreen forests, in valleys, and through hills. Lakes are grassed to the edges, blurring the line between “good shot” and “go fishing.” The course has played host to the Japan PGA Championship. 

Mountain So High, Valley So Low
Golf Magazine has called RTJ II’s Cordevalle Golf Course — tucked in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Jose, Calif. — one of the top 100 courses you can play in America. How you play it is up to you, though we recommend avoiding the canyons, meadows, streams, and stands of sycamore and oak. The walkable layout has its ups and downs in the form of elevation changes. cordevalle.com

Grande Is Venti
Several hours south of Madrid lies Real Club de Golf Sotogrande, also known as Sotogrande Old — the senior Jones’ first European endeavor. Ranked among the continent’s top 10 courses, according to the editorial staff of GolfWeb, Sotogrande rolls between pines, cork oaks, eucalypti, and giant palms. If you find the rough here you’ve probably left the golf course, as this immaculately groomed Bermuda carpet is all in play. golfsotogrande.com

All in the Family
Swing your hickories on Rees Jones’ Green Course at the Golden Horseshoe Golf Club in Colonial Williamsburg, a short horse-and-buggy ride from Richmond, Va. The family-friendly atmosphere is enhanced by the fact that Rees’ dad designed two other courses here. The son’s is longer and more forgiving, which should somehow be a lesson to us all. goldenhorseshoegolf.com

A Monkey with a Porpoise
Forty-five minutes from Liberia, Costa Rica, RTJ II’s Reserva Conchal Golf Club offers a fine example of eco-friendly golf, which Robert Jr. has championed throughout his career. Listen for the screech of howler monkeys, and look toward the Pacific for views of cavorting dolphins as you move through a topography of native forest, steep ravines, and lagoons abutting 1.6 miles of white sandy beaches. reservaconchal.com

Peak Performances
If Bach had somehow collaborated with Beck, and both were golf course architects, that might provide some idea of what the East and West courses at the Broadmoor, in Colorado Springs, are like. Jones Senior added holes to two Donald Ross venues from an earlier era to create a duo of harmonious mountain triumphs. East will host the 2008 Senior Open. West, at 6,800 feet in altitude, is the rare venue that can play higher than it does long. broadmoor.com

Rees’ Piece
Seventy-five miles east of Atlanta, Reynolds Plantation is home to Rees Jones’ Oconee Course, a lakeside gem connected with the Ritz-Carlton Lodge. Both nines of this 6,732-yard layout begin with challenging par-5s. Nine holes play along or in view of Lake Oconee. reynoldsplantation.com