What is your regular max commute to go play golf?

I typically don't drive more than 30 minutes unless I hit some unexpected traffic. There are a lot of nice courses 45 minutes or so that I just can only occasionally justify driving too. The only courses about 15 minutes from me are way overpriced, so I don't mind driving another 10 min or so for better ddeals (I live in the heart of the city). What about you guys? Would you even consider playing courses 30 minutes or more away?

30 minutes away (max) unless the course is something out of sight or if I'm going out of my way to accommodate a friend. I'm lucky to have a public Gil Hanse course close by, otherwise, I'd have to settle for playing a bunch of dog tracks instead.

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I typically don't drive more than 30 minutes ... Would you even consider playing courses 30 minutes or more away?
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Like you, 30 minutes is typically my limit but I make exceptions for tournaments or when we occasionally play a new course with a decent reputation.

25 miles

I'll drive about an hour, but I have a ton of options within 30 minutes, and a couple nice courses within 5 mins that get most of my rounds.

My favorite course is 25 miles or about 30 minutes away from my house. It's all country roads, so a nice drive with no stoplights and little traffic.

I'll drive up to 1.5 hrs for a round of golf on the weekend. The nearest course to me is about a 30 min drive w/o traffic, but I prefer to play nicer courses in the suburbs which are at least an hour away.

You guys are lucky. My closest course is 20 minutes travel on a good day, and 40 to 50 minutes on a bad day due to weekend traffic. I'll travel up to an hour each way to play a top end course, but otherwise it's roughly 30 to 40 minutes oneway.

10 minutes to my course, i will go further.

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I'll drive up to 1.5 hrs for a round of golf on the weekend. The nearest course to me is about a 30 min drive w/o traffic, but I prefer to play nicer courses in the suburbs which are at least an hour away.
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Yeah, for the advantage of living in the city and having a short commute to work, the downside is extended trips to the suburbs for weekend golf. I average 5000 miles a year on my car, and 90+% of that is strickly trips to the burbs for golf April through November.

From home, about 2.5 miles or about 5 minutes.

From work, about 200 yards. I drive from the golf maintenance shop up the road to the Clubhouse. Takes longer then it should as the road is brick.

There is a golf course right cross the street that I play once in awhile, too. Commute is about 2 minutes if I get caught by traffic and can't get across the intersection.

An hour is my max, and I don't like to do that very often. But I have a buddy who can get discount coupons to some courses, and they all seem to be in the same 45-60 minute distance.

My regular course is just under 20 minutes, and to go 30 minutes is not a problem for other good courses in Northern NJ.. If I am playing with friends from all over the region I will drive up to an hour, but that is an exception.

I play a majority of my rounds at my home club which is 8 miles from my house (12-15 minute commute most days), and another course which is less than 2 miles from my office. The top 5 courses that I regular play are all within 12 miles of my house. There's some great golf 45mi North of me and about 35mi SW of me, but I only go out to one of those locations about once every 6 weeks or so.

Anything over an hour's drive away is a "golf trip" as far as I'm concerned, and I only get about one of those in a year.

Love living in a rural area. About 7 minutes from home & about 5 minutes from work.

8 courses within 20 minutes...another 4 within 30

We've played courses up to 3 hours, each way on a day trip.

There's a very cheap first-come first-tee course about 10 minutes away, and an expensive resort about 10 minutes in the other direction that I'll play if there's a deal, but other than that it's 25-35 minute drive for 6 municipal and a lot of privately-owned courses.

I live in Los Angeles. Lots of crappy courses in the city. Lots of expensive courses just outside the city. Lots of great courses with decent prices 1.5hrs outside the city. So I try to play 3 times a month. Twice close on "ok" muni tracks and once far, somewhere that'll take a while. I often travel to Ventura, Riverside, Temecula, Corona, San Diego to play golf. Torrey Pines is 2hrs. Sterling Hills/Rustic/Olivas is like 75min+. If I play across town, I play early, so I am driving home in lunchtime traffic, not rush hour traffic.

What does one do with the information in this post?

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roommate anyone?

I typically drive or ferry up to 1.5hrs to play some pretty nice courses. There are plenty of muni tracks within Seattle (less than 20 min commute) but the beauty of golf here in the NW is that a ferry ride across the Puget Sounds gets you into some really nice courses that are in pristine tournament condition with less golfers. I can typically finish a round w/ my foursome in 3 1/2 hrs or less if outside the city limits. I have yet to play a muni course in Seattle since fall of 2012.

My longest trip: we drove to Bandon earlier this year right after the Seahawks won the Superbowl in Feb. We left at 3am? It took close to 8 hrs hungover through those twisty Oregon highways.

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My favorite course is 25 miles or about 30 minutes away from my house. It's all country roads, so a nice drive with no stoplights and little traffic.
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Same here.

Everything for me is between 10 and 30 minutes drive.

In my group we drive up to 11/2 hrs. one way. Average drive time is 45 mins. We play the same courses every yr. but we like to mix it up and go somewhere different each week.We can cover a lot of courses within a 11/2 hrs. from home. We have a lot of courses within 15 mins of home too but we hardly ever play them. They are always crowded and the price of golf is higher.
Today we traveled 40 mins. to an almost empty course. It was $20 with cart but we chose to walk. We could have stayed close to home and paid $40 to $100 to play on a crowded course.

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Say "see honey, me driving 50 minutes away is nothing.. this guy here drives 3 hours!!!"

I drive up to 75 minutes on a regular basis. It's part of that one round per week routine and i want to play the best course i can afford plus play a good variety.

2 miles

Most of the times it is over an hour.

I travel 70 miles and it takes me a little more than one hour to get to 4 different courses. I make this trip about 60% of the time and I probably do it 40 times per year. I average 1 per week for about 8 months but thru the winter I might only go every other week depending on the weather. The courses I travel to are usually so much better condition that those in my area, so it is worth the drive. There is one nice course in my area called Black Mesa but it has been in terrible condition for the last year and a half. It can also play very tough with some unfair greens, so I am usually not up for it. I play another course which is about 40 minutes from my house but it is only in good condition for about 2-3 months which works pretty well in the mid-summer as it is 10-15 degrees cooler than my usual courses.

I max out at about an hour, unless it's a special course, or a special occasion. Most of the courses I normally play are between 20-40 minutes depending on traffic.