Top 5 Courses You Have Played

[Plan9]

Better late than never..... No particular order.

 

Maidstone

Shinnecock Hills

National Golflinks

Sawgrass CC

Ballybunion

 

Just 5 ?

[LMU_Nick]

I'm poor but I get spoiled by knowing the right people so here are my top 5 courses overall that I have enjoyed most, in no particular order:

 

1. Rustic Canyon (Moorpark, CA)

2. Nanea (Big Island, HI)

3. Riviera (Los Angeles, CA)

4. Mission Viejo CC (Mission Viejo, CA)

5. Rancho Park (Los Angeles, CA)

 

Biggest Disappointment by far:

 

Trump National (Palos Verdes, CA)

[DavePelz4]

Top 10 that I've been fortunate to play...

 

Medinah #3 the Friday before the PGA - 7,700 yards of delicious torture - almost lost my shoes and caddie in the rough

 

Whistling Straits

 

The K Club 2 weeks before the Ryder Cup...in a 30 MPH wind, 40 degree temps and RAIN/SNOW. Picked a really bad time to forget the rainsuit.

 

Dubsdread - BMW course in Chicago

 

Blackwolf Run - 2 incredible courses in Kohler, WI...same complex as Whistling Straits

 

Tullymore/St. Ives in Michigan

 

Olympia Fields

 

Blue Monster at Doral

 

TPC Scottsdale

 

Grayhawk - Raptor/Talon courtesy of One Putt Blunder who provided a great deal!

 

The next course I'm playing...

[DavePelz4]

Forgot to add...Captain Carl's Mini-Golf...despite the quad on the windmill hole!

[NoCalHack]

1. Winged Foot West

2. Bethpage Black

3. Spyglass Hill

4. Kapalua Plantation

5. Caledonia

[ShortStack]

Pinehurst #2 Pinehurst, NC

Tanglewood Championship course, NC

Carolina Lakes Fort mill, SC

[foxinsocks1]

The Ocean Course @ Kiawah Island

Shadow Creek

Harbour Town Golf Links

Bethpage Black

Atunyote Golf Club

[WS Golfer]

I'm young and poor, so I haven't been to the great places that some of you have, so from my narrow spectrum here in the PacNW here is my list.

 

Columbia Edgewater CC- Portland, OR- One of the premier 'player's clubs' in the country, amazing golf course, very underrated

Sahalee CC- Sammamish, WA- Playing the same holes that some of the greats have played was truly amazing

Tetherow Golf Club- Bend, OR- Amazing new David McKlay Kidd design, played it before it was even open and it was breath taking. I want to get back to play it again now that it's grown in some

The Members Club at Aldarra- sammamish, WA- Stunning and relatively new ultra exclusive private

Chambers Bay- University Place, WA- Again I played it very early on, and need to get back and see it now that it's a little more mature

Dude! Don't kid yourself.....these are five great courses - especially Chambers Bay in Tacoma

 

When was the last time the USGA has gone to a golf course that is 7 months old.....7 months old, and finished their site visit with an offer to host the 2010 US Amateur and 2015 US Open - there is no precedent!

That is what happened at Chambers Bay - must play!

[cohenfive]

top courses i've played (not in rank order):

 

winged foot

pebble beach

spyglass

shinnecock

quaker ridge

 

toughest i've played:

 

ocean course at kiawah island

 

most disappointing course i've played:

 

baltusrol

 

my best day of golf ever:

 

shinnecock--played 36 holes, only about 15 people on the entire course that day. shot 80/79 and thought i had died and went to heaven!!

[TomAce82]

Pasatiempo (allister mckenzie)

San Juan Oaks (fred couples)

Poppy Hills

Palmilla (jack nicklaus)

Cabo Del Sol (jack nicklaus)

 

 

No particular order

[Dean NC]

6 I've played in no particular order

 

Tobacco Road

Tot Hill Farm

Okemo Valley (Ludlow, VT)

The Point (Mooresville, NC)

Rock Barn, Jones course (Hickory, NC)

Peninsula Club (Cornelius, NC)

[golfdad907]

Butler National

Whistling Straits

Blackwolf Run River

TPC Sawgrass

Torrey South

The Boulders

Troon North (the original)

 

too many others, those are favorites

[speeder717]

In no order

-Prairie Dunes

-Kiawah Island-Ocean Course

-Franklin Hills C.C.

-Pebble Beach

-Torrey Pines-South

-Oakland Hills-South

 

Could not get down to 5 had to put 6

[awd]

Shinnecock Southhampton

 

Pebble Beach

 

TPC Ponte Vedra

 

Ocean Course Kiawah

 

Maidstone East Hampton

[EscapeArtist]

St. Andrews (Old Course)

 

Carnoustie   (Scotland)

 

KINGSBARNS  (Scotland)

 

The Resort Course at La Cantera (Texas)

 

St. Leon-Rot (Germany)

 

Several others but these stood out IMO. 

[Richie3Jack]

Seminole

Oak Hill

Kiawah Island

Quaker Ridge G.C.

Caledonia Golf & Fish Club

 

 

 

 

3JACK

[raw10628]

My list has both. Haven't played enough good public courses to justify their own list.

 

1. Valley Club of Montecito - Montecito, CA - Private

2. Cabo Del Sol Ocean Course - Cabo San Lucas, Mexico - Public

3. Champions Golf Club - Houston, TX - Private

4. Newport Dunes - Port Aransas, TX - Public

5. Lochinvar - Houston, TX - Private

[golfingchuck]

I haven't been able to play a lot of courses but I think the courses that I have played are pretty good.

1. Redstone CC Players Course (two weeks before the Shell Houston Open) 10 minutes from my front door when I lived in Humble.

2. Squire Creek Golf Club. Had U.S. Open qualifier in 08' Calhoun,LA not long from tips, but greens are insane. perfect but super fast

i'm talking 13-15 fast.

3. Redstone CC Members Course. I grew up playing this course when it was El dorado CC before Redstone. Really challenging course.

4. Tour 18 Humble,Tx nice playing holes from other courses that you see on tv. I know not the same but still nice. Oh 5 minutes from my front door when I lived in Humble.

5. It's a tie between River Crossing GC off hwy 281 30 minutes north of San Antonio and The Bandit GC in New Braunfels. Both are really beautiful courses.

6. Cola Vista GC in Bastrop,TX. I forgot about this one, this course is in the middle of nowhere and I a beautiful golf course. It also has the colorado river the runs through the course.

[mwt9747]

Kinloch golf club---manikin sabot va

 

Federal Club--- Glen allen va

 

Eagle point golf club--- Wilmington NC

 

Old Overton Golf club---- Birmingham AL

 

and this one isn't a very prestige course but they held one of my favorite junior tournaments when i was a junior. Its also probably one of my favorite courses to play....

 

Springfield Country Club in Springfield Va.

[justin_w]

Kiawah Island Resort

Mission Hills GC

Angus Glen GC

Coppinwood GC

Pinehurst #8

[Arenshaw03]

Private:

 

Crystal Downs

Seminole

Los Angeles CC (North)

Crooked Stick

Kinloch

Ledgerock

 

Public:

 

Pasatiempo

Ventana Canyon

Sawgrass

Pelican Hill

Ocean Course

The Heather @ Boyne Highlands

[ab7735]

Man, some of you guys either have deep pockets, know people or have all sorts of game.

 

My top 5 courses I've played are (in no particular order)

 

Torrey Pines South

 

TPC Sawgrass

 

Grand Bear Golf Course

 

Timberton Golf Club

 

Tour 18 Houston

 

Honorable Mention:

 

TPC Louisiana, Jimmy Austin OU Golf Course, Hermitage Golf Course (both courses are nice tracks).

[longballjs]

Top Private:

1) Bayone GC

2) Plainfield CC

3) Quaker Ridge

4) Baltusrol upper and lower (upper is actually a better and tougher course than lower where majors are played - it just cant be stretched more than 6,800-7,000

5) Somerset Hills

6) Metedeconk National

7) Tamarak (connecticut, not NJ)

Still waiting to play: Liberty National, Trump (NJ), Wingedfoot, Westchester,

 

Top Public (or at least semiprivate)

1) Ballyowen

2) Troon North

3) Greyhawk

4) Innisbrook

5) TPC Scottsdale

6) Crystal Springs

7) Architects golf club (they once had great greens, not so sure now)

8) Golden Horseshoe (VA, not AZ)

9) Blue Heron Pines

10) Pine Barrens

 

Still waiting to play: Bethpage

[mwt9747]

Man, some of you guys either have deep pockets, know people or have all sorts of game.

 

My top 5 courses I've played are (in no particular order)

 

Torrey Pines South

 

TPC Sawgrass

 

Grand Bear Golf Course

 

Timberton Golf Club

 

Tour 18 Houston

 

Honorable Mention:

 

TPC Louisiana, Jimmy Austin OU Golf Course, Hermitage Golf Course (both courses are nice tracks).

 

 

no deep pockets here... poor college student... just connections.

[JD3]

Top 5 (alphabetic):

 

Bayonne

 

Friars Head

 

Maidstone

 

National Golf Links of America

 

Plainfield

 

 

Next 5 (alphabetic):

 

Garden City Men's Club

Mid Ocean (Bermuda)

Nirwana (Indonesia)

Westchester CC (West)

Winged Foot (West)

played Fishers Island for 1st time yesterday. intoxicatingly great course, worth all the accolades and then some. im sorry but i have to do it, kicks Bayonne out of Top 5.

 

love the horizon greens -- why don't modern architects use this framing more often?

 

 

and oh my what's behind some of them?

 

 

brilliant strategic green complexes -- again, why don't modern architects think of these?

 

 

shhhweeeettt!!!

 

[BabyFades]

Hmmm

 

Public:

1. Bethpage Black

2. Torrey Pines South

3. Whistling Straights (Straights)

4. Doral (Blue Monster)

5. Kapalua Plantation

 

I think Ko'olau and Bethpage are the toughest courses I have ever played, and Doral had the fastest, hardest greens I have ever seen.

 

Have only played privates in Minnesota I think:

1. Interlachen

2. North Oaks

3. Olympic Hills (my club)

4. Edina

5. Midland Hills

 

If anyone here can get me on Spring Hill...let me know.

[ButterCutter2]

nice to see some other NYC area guys in here.

 

my top 5, in no particular order:

 

 

friar's head (l.i.)

national golf links of america (l.i.)

plainfield cc (n.j)

mayakoo lakes (palm beach, fla)

maidstone (l.i.)

 

 

next 5

 

meadowbrook (l.i.)

montauk downs (l.i.)

taconic gc (williamstown, ma)

long point (amelia island, fl)

metedconk national (n.j.)

[ButterCutter2]

think i forgot a few, this is tough to do on the spot!

 

westchester (where they used to play the tournament, that course)

winged foot east

stanwich (front 9 only)

sleepy hollow (front 9 only)

weeburn (darien, ct)

essex county, (nj)

[OpusX20]

My favorites in no particular order...

 

Public/Resort

Bandon Dunes

Pacific Dunes

TPC Sawgrass

Crosswater (Sunriver, OR)

Poipu Bay

 

Didn't make the cut: Bay Hill, Pumpkin Ridge (Ghost Creek)

 

Private

Hazeltine

Interlachen

Broken Top Club (Bend, OR)

Chicago GC

St. Cloud CC (Minn.) - Learned the game there

 

Didn't make the cut: Eugene CC, Sahalee CC, Pumpkin Ridge (Witch Hollow)

[ctime]

1. The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island (Ryder Cup)

2. Valhalla Golf Club (2 PGAs, Ryder Cup) Louisville, KY

3. Old Silo (Mt. Sterling,KY)

4. Traditions (Hebron, KY- Private)

5. Tidewater (Myrtle Beach, SC)

6a. Persimmon Ridge (Louisville, KY-Private)

6b. Lassing Pointe (Union, KY)

6c. Triple Crown CC (Union, KY-Private, Steve Flesch's Home Course)