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Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 9:44 AM
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Time to take a brief break from football:
This month’s Golf Magazine lists their top 100 courses world wide. Wondering where you might have played. Here are mine:
St Andrews Old Course .. twice
Turnberry … twice
Carnoustie .. twice
Kiawah Ocean Course…several times
Prestwick…twice
Royal Troon
Kingsbarns
Whistling Straits, Straits
Favorite is old Course followed by Turnberry.
And yours……?
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 10:08 AM
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I’ll live vicariously through my dad who I think has an incredible resume of courses played in the US. I don’t have the list so not sure if top 100 or not.
Augusta National
Ocean Course
Sawgrass
Pinehurst #2
The Homestead
Whistling Straights
Firestone
Pebble Beach
Walker Course 😉
Blackwolf Run
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 10:13 AM
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The Old Course
Prestwick
Kingsbarns
The "New Course"
Carnoustie
Kiawah
Most of the Pinehurst main courses
Gullane No.1
Torrey Pines, South Course
No Question. KIngsbarns is all time favorite. Marvelous course, scenery and history.
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 10:34 AM
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I played Kingsbarns the year it opened....2000. Found it interesting that it was just down the road from St Andrews, was a new course, and designed by an American.
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
Oct 30, 2023, 4:06 PM
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Yes, it was designed by Kyle Phillips. What is amazing about the course, there were no natural features there when he started. He had to create everything and haul in material and most of the sand had long before been hauled off for other purposes. He did a fantastic job.
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 10:13 AM
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Oh Ive played at many top 100 courses ...... on WGT golf but ive been playing for a little under a year now so not many supernice ones but the nicer ive played at are Furmans and Olde Sycamore in charoltte ( Horrible round though). Only really get the chance to play nicer courses trough school just due to price
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 10:22 AM
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Kiawah Ocean
Bandon Dunes
Pacific Dunes
All the courses at Bandon
Bethpage Black
I liked Pacific Dunes the most, but Kiawah was beautiful as well. Both were very windy and were tough.
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 10:37 AM
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Oakmont
Pinehurst 2
Kiawah Ocean
Crystal Downs
Pebble Beach
Sawgrass
Harbor Town
Muirfield Village
Honors Course
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 10:42 AM
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Royal Portrush
Pebble Beach
Royal County Down
Augusta Nat.
Pinehurst #2
The European Club
The Ocean Course
Congressional
Harbor Town
Sawgrass
Portmarnok
Seminole
Yeamons Hall
The Dunes Club
Palmetto
Spyglass Hill
We have one member here who can put all of our lists to shame. He’s played everywhere
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
Oct 30, 2023, 7:25 PM
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Thanks, you got me to 4
Pebble Beach
Cypress Point
Yeaman’s Hall
Palmetto GC
Didn’t have the list to refer to
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 10:55 AM
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I am extremely jealous... That's quite a list!
I have played TPC Sawgrass, Palmetto, Augusta CC (extremely nice private course) and the Augusta National. I'm sure you can guess which one was my favorite.
I'm only 28, and hope to have a list as good as yours one day!
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
Oct 30, 2023, 12:04 PM
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I might trade some of mine for Augusta National. Mine are mostly 2 different golf trips to Scotland.
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
Oct 30, 2023, 1:09 PM
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Played a number of them
Expensive but worth it
Pebble Beach was my favorite - at least front 9
as well as a number of courses in the Carribean and Hawaii
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 4:04 PM
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Too lazy to look up top 100, but guess a few of these are included:
Pebble Beach
Cypress Point
Spyglass
Sand Hills
Sahalee (Seattle)
Erin Hills (US Open Course)
Chambers Bay (US Open Course)
Torrey Pines
Los Angeles Country Club
The Valley Club (Santa Barbara)
Pasatiempo
The Champions Club (Houston)
Woodlands (Houston)
Firethorn (Lincoln)
Pinehurst #2 (and all of them)
CC of North Carolina
Seminole
TPC Sawgrass
Peachtree (Atl.)
East Lake (Atl)
Yeaman's Hall (played it with Arnie)
Kiawah Ocean Course
CC of Charleston
Bethpage Black
Maidstone
The National Golf Links
Baltusrol
Shinnicock Hills
Newport CC
Wanamoisset (Providence)
Pine Valley
Merion
Aronimink
Fox Chapel
Oakmont
The Mid Ocean Club (Bermuda)
Turnberry
St. Andrews
Carnoustie
Prestwick
Kingsbarns
Muirfield (Scotland)
Muirfield (Columbus ..... played it with Nicklaus)
The Golf Club (Columbus)
Double Eagle (Columbus)
Royal Dornoch
North Berwick
Nairn
Cruden Bay
Royal Portrush
Royal County Down
Bally Bunion
Lahinch
Portmarnock
Adare Manor
Killarney
Royal St. George
Sunningdale
Royal Birkdale
Royal Lytham and St. Annes
Royal Liverpool
Wentworth
and a few more that I can't remember!
There are so many great courses, it is ridiculous to try and create a "top 100 list". The Golf Digest Top 100 in the World is a pure joke, as I have played many courses better than the top 100. The category ought to be "The Top 100 pieces of land that golf courses were built on that the architect did not screw up".
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
Oct 30, 2023, 4:08 PM
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WOW. College golfer? Tour player?
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 5:31 PM
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Neither ........ just fortunate, I guess! Right place at the right time in several instances!
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 6:44 PM
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It is ..... sort of a collaboration between Bobby Jones, the golfer and Robert Trent Jones, the architect.
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Pinehurst #2 - twice; Kiawah Ocean Course - once
Oct 30, 2023, 4:11 PM
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I like Boscobel better than either of those (just kidding)
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Re: Pinehurst #2 - twice; Kiawah Ocean Course - once
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Oct 30, 2023, 5:37 PM
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You know, that is not as ridiculous as you think. I never refer to a golf course as a "goat track", as the members or golfers at their course should love their course just as much as members of the Augusta National. Who am I to say their course is a goat track? If people enjoy their course, then it's good enough for me.
I once visited a little course, built by farmers, in the Scotland Neck area of North Carolina. The "clubhouse" was built out of concrete blocks and it looked like the swimming pool was built about the same way. The golfers on the course were playing in overalls, blue jeans, tee shirts, etc. and just having a great time. No irrigation, except around greens, and it was a manual system that the pro/superintendent/manager (all one person) had to go to each green to cut the water on. I would have been proud to been a member there!
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Re: Pinehurst #2 - twice; Kiawah Ocean Course - once
Oct 30, 2023, 5:57 PM
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I can’t think of anything special. Played numerous courses mostly around the beach area. Lot of favorites down that way for me personally. Do want to play Pinehurst, Quail Hollow and the Ocean Course at Kiawah.
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Re: Pinehurst #2 - twice; Kiawah Ocean Course - once
Oct 30, 2023, 11:20 PM
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The first time I played in mid 90’s at Carnoustie the start house was a little shack just off the first tee. The starter left at about 5 or 5:30 so the course was ope to anyone who showed up. Several years later I returned and had THE room in the hotel overlooking the 1st tee and 18th green. Trip of a life time.
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
Oct 30, 2023, 5:36 PM
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Pirate land jungle golf in MB.
Pretty sure it's a top 100 course.
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 6:23 PM
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I’ve only played mostly local courses and I am horrible, so I have nothing really to add here…except an interesting story (I think at least).
I’m just a casual golfer and in my 30’s was only familiar with the more famous US courses (Augusta, Pinehurst, etc…) and only because I had some work friends who played a lot and would talk golf on Monday mornings.
Anyway…I traveled to Prestwick, Scotland with a client back around 2006ish. He wasn’t a big golfer either…we were there to check out one of their manufacturing plants in Prestwick. So, neither of us could really appreciate where we were.
We stayed at Lochgreen House and before dinner the first night, I walked down a little gravel walkway towards the road. I noticed there was a golf course across the street…so I walked down to the edge of the road and watched a few guys play the hole by the road. Because I was accustomed to courses in the US that were always so neatly manicured and lush, I thought to myself, ‘What a goat track’…a term I had heard my buddies say a few times.
Turns out it was Royal Troon…
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
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Oct 30, 2023, 6:31 PM
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Royal County Down
Augusta National
Kiawah Island Ocean
Ballybunion
Yeamans Hall
Although not listed in the world rankings TPC at Sawgrass is in the top 100 for the US.
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Re: Golfer survey: which top 100 courses have you played?
Oct 30, 2023, 11:21 PM
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Good ones.
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Pebble and Cypress
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Oct 30, 2023, 7:02 PM
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Think that’s it for me, unless Olympic or Tanglewood is in the top 100
Have walked many more watching my brother play
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Re: Pebble and Cypress
Oct 30, 2023, 11:22 PM
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I have walked The Masters many times but no connections to play there.
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Re: Pebble and Cypress
Oct 31, 2023, 9:24 AM
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Ooops ..... I forgot ..... played Olympic several times as well as San Francisco Golf Club .....both great courses.
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