What's Your Ten Favorite Courses?

[Chanceman]

Not the best you have played but your favorites. The ones where you had fun. 

The ones you would just love to go back to, if you could. Here's mine:

Pebble Beach

Pasatiempo

We Ko Pa Saguaro

Royal Dornoch

St Andrews Old Course

Carne

Lahinch

Sunningdale Old

Cape Wickham

Kingston Heath

 

 

[Argonne69]

Pebble Beach

Pacific Dunes

Erin Hills

Chambers Bay

Cabot Cliffs

Whistling Straits

Mammoth Dunes

Kiawah Ocean

Wolf Creek

Bethpage Black

 

[Maroon_19]

Cabot Cliffs - single best day of golf in my life

Sand Hollow Championship - if I could only play one course for the rest of my life this would be it

Pinehurst No. 2 - bucket list day with a bucket list foursome

We Ko Pa Saguaro

PGA West Stadium Course

Waterchase

Troon North Monument

Donald Ross Course at French Lick

Entrada at Snow Canyon

Cottonwood Valley at the TPC Four Seasons

 

[postfold]

A course that doesn't exist any more

Mid Pines

Southern Pines

American Dunes

Old Course

Turnberry

Dale Hollow Lake

Western Gailes

Arcadia Bluffs

Pine Needles

 

 

 

[sabram]

I've played close to 1,000 courses and as much as I tried I can't name just ten. Per Chanceman's original post, these are not the "best" courses I've played and exclude courses like Pine Valley, Winged Foot E & W, The Country Club, Olympic The Ocean Course etc.,  as they were really hard (for me at least).

 

These are my favorites, excluding Great Britain & Ireland, which I'll have to think about and post separately.

 

Privates

Sleepy Hollow

Merion East

LACC North

Ballyneal

Garden City

Wolf Point

Whipoorwill

Bayonne

Kingsley

Orchard Lake

 

Publics

Yale

Teeth of the Dog

Cabot Cliffs

Tobacco Road

Sand Hollow

Golden Horseshoe Gold course

Pinehurst #2

Mid Pines

We Ko Pa Saguaro

Old Macdonald

 

 

Public Honorable Mention

Pacific Dunes

Punta Espada

The Sagamore

The Loop (either direction)

Bethpage Black

True Blue

Ak Chin Southern Dunes (AZ)

Southern Dunes (FL)

Arcadia Bluffs

Circling Raven

Black Mesa

 

 

Edited January 22, 2023 by sabram

[sabram]

Here are some faves (again, not "best") from Ireland, Scotland and England

 

England

Sunningdale (either Old or New)

Woking

New Zealand

Berkshire Red

St Georges Hill

 

Scotland

North Berwick West Links

The Old Course

Prestwick

Cruden Bay

Nairn

 

Ireland

County Sligo (Rosses Point)

Portsalon

Cruit Island

Portrush Valley Course

Carne

 

 

[tad950]

In no particular order. 
 

The Old Course

Cruden Bay

Royal Dornoch

Pebble Beach

Bandon Dunes

North Berwick West Links

Royal Lytham & St. Annes 

Mauna Kea

Dooks

Tralee

 

Honorable Mentions

 

San Juan Oaks, my old home course. Now closed.

Nanea

 

 

[CactusGolf]

Bluemound Golf and Country Club

Erin Hills

The Ocean Courae

Whistling Straits- Straits 
Whistling Strsits- Irish

Blackwolf Run- River

The Dye Club

Tobacco Road

Westmoor Country Club

 

Bluemound is always going to be my favorite. Seth Raynor design that I grew up caddying on and have some great memories of that place.  

 

 

Edited January 22, 2023 by CactusGolf

[Seamus_MacDuff]

In no order:

 

Machrihanish

Pine Valley

Merion - East

Friars Head

St. Andrews - Old Course

Sleepy Hollow

North Berwick

Royal County Down

Sand Hills

Cruden Bay

 

Edited January 22, 2023 by Seamus_MacDuff

[sabram]

5 minutes ago, Seamus_MacDuff said:

In no order:

 

Machrihanish

Pine Valley

Merion - East

Friars Head

St. Andrews - Old Course

Sleepy Hollow

North Berwick

Royal County Down

Merion - East

Cruden Bay

 

I love Merion East as well, but not enough to list it twice 😁

[doctorgriffo]

20 minutes ago, tad950 said:

In no particular order. 
 

The Old Course

Cruden Bay

Royal Dornoch

Pebble Beach

Bandon Dunes

North Berwick West Links

Royal Lytham & St. Annes 

Mauna Kea

Dooks

Tralee

 

Honorable Mentions

 

San Juan Oaks, my old home course. Now closed.

Nanea

 

 

Just booked rounds at Dooks and Tralee (and Waterville) for this summer - good to hear that they get on your favorite list. The criteria for booking was "fun to play with 13 year old son who is a solid player but gets discouraged if it is too tough" and this was the list we were recommended (back 9 of Tralee notwithstanding...). 

My list is evolving from famous courses I played on my own to ones I had the best day at with my son, dad and brother.

[So_Cal]

Cypress

Dornoch

Old Course

Muirfield

County Down

Pac Dunes

Pebble

Crystal Downs

Riv

Oakland Hills (restored)

[asommers1441]

Not in any order but my favorite ten that I have played 

 

Pinehurst 2

Chambers Bay 

Erin Hills

Bandon Dunes

Sheep Ranch 

Pacific Dunes

Gamble Sands

Bandon Trails 

Interlachen CC 

Pinehurst 1

[So_Cal]

11 minutes ago, asommers1441 said:

Not in any order but my favorite ten that I have played 

 

Pinehurst 2

Chambers Bay 

Erin Hills

Bandon Dunes

Sheep Ranch 

Pacific Dunes

Gamble Sands

Bandon Trails 

Interlachen CC 

Pinehurst 1

Nice list.  Interlachen isn’t talked about much but it looks really good. 

Edited January 22, 2023 by So_Cal
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[asommers1441]

3 minutes ago, So_Cal said:

Nice list.  Interlachen isn’t talked about much but it looks really good. 

 

Definitely a fun course. Had the please of working there a few years ago so I was able to get on. 

[hammergolf]

Carne

Tralee

Pasatiempo

Kingsbarns

Teeth of the dog

Bandon Dunes

Jupiter Hills (Hills)

Lahinch

Ballybunion

Enniscrone

 

[DArnie]

Turnberry

Old Course

Ballybunion

TPC Sawgrass

Sea Island Seaside

Harbor Town

Haig Point

Gleneagles King Course

Okefenokee

Augusta National

 

 

 

 

 

[jvincent]

In no particular order:

 

Lahinch

Ballybunion

Cabot Cliffs

Whistling Straits

Bethpage Black

Erin Hills

Bandon Dunes

Pacific Dunes

Old Macdonald

Ocean Course (Kiawah)

[MD58]

Prairie Dunes

Essex County Club

Pinehurst #2

Ocean Course

Scioto CC

The Country Club (OH)

Kirtland CC

Tobacco Road

Pinehurst #4

Dormie Club

[vallygolf]

random order

 

Rustic Canyon

Pine Canyon

Streamsong Black

Southern Dunes (AZ)

Sand Hollow

Wolf Creek 

Pebble Beach

Erin Hills

Bandon Dunes

Old Mac

[Octopus Golfer]

In no order:

 

Kiawah Ocean Course

Cherokee Town and Country

Pebble Beach

Pinehurst No. 2

Peachtree

Arcadia Bluff

Shoal Creek

Spyglass

Chambers Bay

TPC Sawgrass

 

[knock it close]

Top of head no order:

 

Cal Club

Pasatiempo

Bandon Dunes

Bandon Trails

Pacific Dunes

Victoria Golf Club

Banff Springs

Jasper Park

Waverley 

Calgary golf and CC

Edited January 23, 2023 by knock it close

[eboettne]

1. Pacific Dunes

2. Bethpage Black

3. Bandon Trails

4. Bandon Dunes

5. Whistling Straits

6. Sand Hollow

7. Old MacDonald

8. Erin Hills

9. Wolf Creek

10. Reflection Bay 

[mikedejong33]

Favorite courses I have played:

1. Tobiano in Kamloops, BC
2. Diamante Dunes in Cabo (the Tiger Woods course El Cardonal was good too, but not on the level of Dunes)
3. Royal Dornoch
4. St. Andrews (Old, New, Jubilee: we played a few, all were an awesome experience)
5. Tobacco Road (also played Mid Pines, Mid South, Southern Pines from a Pinehurst area trip I did, which were all great)
6. Quivira in Cabo
7. PGA West Stadium (although I probably enjoyed the two Indian Wells courses just as much, just cool to play one that is on TV all the time)
8. Kananaskis (both courses are awesome)
9. Mickelson National in Calgary, AB (played it once on our way to the mountains and really liked it)
10. The Derrick Golf and Winter Club

[Chanceman]

5 hours ago, knock it close said:

Top of head no order:

 

Cal Club

Pasatiempo

Bandon Dunes

Bandon Trails

Pacific Dunes

Victoria Golf Club

Banff Springs

Jasper Park

Waverley 

Calgary golf and CC

Interesting, with so many Canadian courses. Would you not rate Greywolf in that group, if you have played it?

[jjtour]

Pebble Beach

Victoria GC (Canada)

Pasatiempo

Banff Springs

Emirates GC

Yas Links

We Ko Pa Seguaro

Port Royal GC

Tobiano

TPC Scottsdale (w/ birdie on 16 with the stadium up, not 100k fans watching tho, ha)

 

[slprince67]

in no order:

San Francisco Golf Club

Pasatiempo

Cypress Point

PaaKo Ridge

Austin Golf Club

Augusta

Wade Hampton

Old Course

North Berwick

TPC Sawgrass

[mikedejong33]

3 hours ago, Chanceman said:

Interesting, with so many Canadian courses. Would you not rate Greywolf in that group, if you have played it?

Another western Canadian here, and I would not. Greywolf isn’t even my favourite course in Invermere (Eagle Ranch, The Springs).

[ode]

Lawsonia Links

The Straits

Wild Rock

Giants Ridge - Quarry

Sand Valley

Blackwolf Run (OG)

Sage Run

Greywalls

Mammoth Dunes

Sweetgrass

 

Haven't traveled much, but am lucky to have so many good courses close (~) by.  Feel bad leaving off Sentry World, Timberstone, SPCC, The Bull, Fortune Bay, Giants Ridge -Legends, Pine Grove CC, Big Fish, Horseshoe Bay, The Irish, URidge, but 10 is 10.

Edited January 24, 2023 by ode
Lol forgot about SV and MD, sorry Irish and URidge

[DGata]

Old Course

Whistling Straits

Erin Hills

Mammoth Dunes

Sand Valley

Pine Canyon

Estancia

Carnoustie

Wekopa Saguaro

The Rim Club