What are the top 5 courses you've played?

[hot_corner]

The Pete Dye Course at French Lick

The Donald Ross Course at French Lick

Kampen

Coyote Crossing

Boyne Highlands

[Pure745]

In my order of pref

 

Bethpage Black

Pebble Beach

Augusta National

Wolf Run (Zionsville, IN)

Coyote Crossing (Lafayette, IN)

 

Bethpage and Pebble over Augusta?! Would love to hear why.

 

Bethpage is just something special to me from the challenge of the walk to the fact we drive 12 hours just to get there and of course the fact it's an awesome course with incredible conditions.

 

Pebble - the best real estate there is :)

 

Augusta was just primo conditions - so many holes that were boring to me. The entire front side is boring honestly but obviously once you get to 11 it's amazing but I'd still put it third.

 

Interesting :) Thanks for the response, definitely on my bucket list!

[baby-g]

Pacific Dunes

Old Mac

Torrey South

Keystone Ranch

Bandon Dunes

 

I don't get out much.

[Texsport]

Best 5

 

Augusta National

Pacific Dunes

Medina #3

Quarry@Giants Ridge

Olympic

 

Best 6-10

 

Bandon Dunes

Harbour Town

Bluffs on Thompsons Creek

Colonial

Southern Hills

 

Biggest Disappointments

 

Pebble Beach

Pinhurst #2

Cog Hill

 

Texsport

[sheppy335]

Oakmont, Southpointe in Pa, Sewickley Heights Golf Club, Dunes Club and Caledonia

 

Don't have a huge resume of elite course but like the ones i have played.

[ThunderBuzzworth]

1. Medinah #3

2. Valhalla

3. Oakland Hills South

4. Muirfield Village

5. Olympia Fields

 

Notable local favorites: Country Club of Detroit, Indianwood Old, Bloomfield Hills Country Club

 

 

[moncoacp]

Harbour Town

Golden Horseshoe

Oak Hill East

Atunyote at Turning Stone

Eastward Ho - Chatham, Mass.

[agolfman]

Augusta National

Cypress Point

Portmarnock

Harding Park

And I second Eastward Ho!

[FairwayFred]

In my order of pref

 

Bethpage Black

Pebble Beach

Augusta National

Wolf Run (Zionsville, IN)

Coyote Crossing (Lafayette, IN)

 

Bethpage and Pebble over Augusta?! Would love to hear why.

 

Bethpage is just something special to me from the challenge of the walk to the fact we drive 12 hours just to get there and of course the fact it's an awesome course with incredible conditions.

 

Pebble - the best real estate there is :)

 

Augusta was just primo conditions - so many holes that were boring to me. The entire front side is boring honestly but obviously once you get to 11 it's amazing but I'd still put it third.

 

Interesting :) Thanks for the response, definitely on my bucket list!

 

I agree Augusta is very overrated. Great set of greens but very little interest off the tee and most of the par 4s are similar until you get to the green. Personally it's not in my top 10.

[jackn]

1. Augusta National

2. Royal County Down

3. Royal Melbourne

4. Muirfield

5. Royal Birkdale

[deadsolid...shank]

1: Pebble Beach. I know a lot say it is overrated, but the feeling on that first tee.....

 

2: Pasatiempo

 

3: Southern Dunes (Phoenix)

 

4: Quarry Oaks (Omaha)

 

5: Wildhorse.

 

A little home state bias on the last two. They may not be the "best", but they are two of my favorites.

[scottc25]

OK I will play:

 

1. Pacific Dunes

2. Bethpage Black

3. Old MacDonald

4. Coto de Caza (North)

5. Tobacco Road

 

Most overrated would be Tobacco Road. Kinda Mickey Mouse to me but I really need to play it again now that I'm a little better player and re-evaluate.

[LaxinMaximus]

I don't have the extensive depth that some of you guys on here have, but my top few are very obvious because I don't play all these great courses. Also I haven't played very many places outside of chicago so forgive me as well

 

1. Shoreacres CC

2. Olympia Fields North

3. Dubsdread

4. Medinah #3

5. Conway Farms

[MattyO1984]

Living where I do, I have played an embarrassingly low amount of them although, with Royal Troon booked for next year, I am determined to get all The Open venues done and then start venturing from there. My Top 5 at the moment are:

 

1. The Old Course

2. Castle Stuart

3. Nairn

4. Dukes Course, St Andrews

5. Gleneagles Centenary Course

 

Biggest disappointment Cruden Bay. How that place ranks in the Top 100 in the World in a few different publications is absolutely beyond me. There are some nice holes on the front 9 but beyond that it is awful. Truly awful.

[FairwayFred]

In my order of pref

 

Bethpage Black

Pebble Beach

Augusta National

Wolf Run (Zionsville, IN)

Coyote Crossing (Lafayette, IN)

 

Bethpage and Pebble over Augusta?! Would love to hear why.

 

Bethpage is just something special to me from the challenge of the walk to the fact we drive 12 hours just to get there and of course the fact it's an awesome course with incredible conditions.

 

Pebble - the best real estate there is :)

 

Augusta was just primo conditions - so many holes that were boring to me. The entire front side is boring honestly but obviously once you get to 11 it's amazing but I'd still put it third.

 

Agree completely on Augusta. Very boring and repetitive off the tee and not interesting until you get to the greens. Every par 4 is a tight straight tee shot through a chute of trees except for 5. It has great topography and great greens but doesn't make my personal Top 10.

[raynorfan1]

Muirfield

The Country Club

The Old Course

Royal Dornoch

Nirwana Bali

 

None was disappointing / over rated.

[sg1]

1. Pikewood National

2. Ballyneal

3. Congressional

4. Mountaintop

5. Streamsong (hard to decide which course I liked better)

[BDietrich19]

Tennessee National

Pinehurst #2

Pinehurst #8

Tobacco Road

Long Cove Golf Club

 

 

Played #2 a few months before the 2014 Open and it was great. Firm and fast fairways and greens were great. Tennessee National is a hidden gem for me. It's a great Greg Norman design in Loudon, TN.

 

[Skeeterfire]

 

Tough to pick an order :

 

Pinehurst #2

Bethpage Black

Erin Hills

Whistling Straits

Firestone South

 

 

[FourUnder]

Bandon Dunes

Pacific Dunes

Pebble Beach

Rock Creek (Montana)

Pronghorn Fazio

[Mnalette]

Bandon Trails

Pebble Beach

Spyglass Hill

Pacific Dunes

Bandon Dunes

 

[widow-maker]

Crystal Downs

Hazeltine

Oakland Hills

Arcadia Bluffs

Indianwood

[countvelvet]

Crystal Downs

Bethpage Black

Forest Dunes

Muskoka Bay Club

Arcadia Bluffs

[AntonLang]

In no particular order (best);

 

Santiburi Samui Country Club, Koh Samui, Thailand.

Angkor Golf Resort, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland.

Tres Vidas, Acapulco, Mexico.

Hillside, Merseyside, England.

 

Most over-rated - without a doubt St. Andrews, Scotland.

[Kevinx]

I see people say St Andrews overrated. I hope you know no one designed the course. Its been around when people still though the world was flat. Except for a few bunker change its still the way it was back then.

[Manbearpig13]

Prince Course @ Princeville

Pacific Dunes

Spyglass Hill

Wolf Creek (some silly holes, but such a fun round)

Sahalee CC

[ryu123]

Pacific Dunes

 

Pebble Beach

 

Riviera (Los Angeles)

 

Old Macdonald

 

Meadow Club (Fairfax, CA)

[mauiman]

In no particular order-

Kapalua Plantation

Butler National

Pacific Dunes

Chicago Golf Club

Whistling Straits

[stevopagolf]

No particular order:

 

Shinnecock Hills

Pine Valley

Philadelphia Cricket

Aronimink

Teeth of the Dog.

[Chanceman]

Top I have played

 

US list:

Pebble Beach

Spyglass Hill

Spanish Bay

Torrey Pines (South)

Bay Hill

Doral

 

 

Internationally (Canada & Scotland):

St. Andrew's Old Course

St. Andrew's New Course

Capilano G&CC (Vancouver, Canada)

Nicklaus North (Whistler, BC)

 

 

Most overrated of above:

Doral.

 

 

Notable mention for top course list:

Moray Golf Club (near Elgin, Scotland) - very tough track and totally unforgiving to stray shots but what a course! #1 and #18 are borderline silly tricked up but overall the course is great

San Juan Oaks (Hollister, CA) - best course outside the 17 Mile Drive for Northern Cali.

Agree on San Juan Oaks - excellent Fred Couples course, especially the back nine.