OT: Best golf course you've ever played?
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#11 at Beemer is one of my favorites of all time. Launching a ball to a fairway and green 100' (?) below you with a beautiful view of a wooded Elkhorn River bottom is why golf is so mesmerizing.
The only thing wrong with Beemer is the Dome greens. It is a nicely designed golf course with an extremely stupid designed greens .
Top 10 No order
Torrey Pines - South
Pinehurst #2 & 4
Spyglass
Pebble
Dubai Hills
Carnoustie
Caledonia
Prestwick MB
Royal Liverpool
Torrey Pines - South
Pinehurst #2 & 4
Spyglass
Pebble
Dubai Hills
Carnoustie
Caledonia
Prestwick MB
Royal Liverpool
Just played Tidewater a couple of months ago. Pretty fun track. The holes on intercoastal are beautiful
Victoria National ( a Dormie track) near Louisville, KY. Hardest golf course I've ever played.
Will get Prairie Club later this year.
Will get Prairie Club later this year.
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Royal Hawaiian Golf Club was absolutely stunning.
I’ve ridden a horse for an entire day in the Sandhills checking windmills. I get it. I doubt I’ll ever get a chance to play that course. Some buddies and I got to play Sutton Bay overlooking Lake Oahe about 10 years ago because we knew the pro. They’ve built a new course since then and he’s the pro at Hillcrest in Yankton now.
We were “prospective members”. I think annual dues were 70k at the time. Stayed at the lodge and had a tremendous meal in their dining room. The only other group at the bar that evening was the owner of the Timberwolves. Had drinks outside by a fire ring and watched the sunset over Oahe and the prairie hills. THAT is my kind of golf. We never saw anybody else on the course. They had a few guests out fishing.
I love Bent Tree, but for the price, I could not agree more… the lack of a cart GPS is wild. My company has their yearly golf outing there. They chose… wisely.
My favorite course I’ve played is Wildhorse. My dad and I make a yearly trip out that way.
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Played it last week. Considering what every other course costs anymore, it’s worth the $150 once. You can decide from there. Right now, tee boxes are night and day better. Laser level and in good shape. Greens are also smooth and roll true with much better pace than the last 15–20 years. Fairway grass is pretty good considering relatively new, but will probably get better with another year or two if they maintain it better than in the past. Sand traps are much improved, with good sand and not river sand, well drained and so far sand is sticking to the sides. Many traps are a little deeper and most have 6-12 inch gnarly grass around them now. Front nine is much the same in design, except a couple of new traps and except 9, which is now 75 or so yards longer and a par 5. Back nine is also much the same layout, except 12 tee box is about 40 feet to the right and has several well placed (depending on your view point) bunkers to make it a challenge. On 16, they added bunkers left and right sides of fairway at about where most good to average golfers hit, depending on tee box. A new bunker on 18 if you hit dead straight off the tee. The old water way is gone on 18, replaced with grass. And of course, the split fairway on 14 is gone. One fareway with a little left to right slope on the left side. And the lower (right hand) cart path on the left side of 13 is also replaced with grass. And many trees between holes are gone, which really gives it a more open feel. Seems like they have more short rough (wider) than before also, so a little more chance of not losing your ball in the sh*t if prone to spraying. Lastly, the clubhouse redesign and back patio are super nice. Great place to sit and have a drink.
Wolf Creek, Mesquite , Nevada. A mountain course that is not only beautiful but physical. Every hole is carved into the stone environment in which God gave us to enjoy. Try it.
Me and a friend played QO's one day a few summers ago when it was like 100 out with crazy humidity. It was like a test of human survival! The beers were just sweating out of us as we drank them.
Dismal River, Arbor Links, Cabo Del Sol
Don't remember the names but 4 course but 4 major designers in Whistler British Colombia. Probably some of the best views in golf.
Don't remember the names but 4 course but 4 major designers in Whistler British Colombia. Probably some of the best views in golf.
Sandhills and nothing close. What an experience, golf to staying in the cabins to eating in the great restaurant.
Wickenberg Ranch outside of Phoenix, now private was a really pleasant surprise.
Wickenberg Ranch outside of Phoenix, now private was a really pleasant surprise.
Indian Trails is where my dads golf league went every year at season's end. I have played that course 3 times back in the late 90's. My dad passed in 2001
That is correct. Our neck of the woods in NE Nebraska refers to them as "turtleback" greens. The high point is in the middle and slopes to the edges all the way around the greens. Not all of them, but many. Need to make sure you have the speed of the greens down very well, especially when they are at their quickest on the Stimpmeter.
Yep Dome ,umbrella Turtle shell you can use them all to describe the greens in Beemer .
Played Johnny Goodman a few weeks ago…
No yardage stakes, no sprinkler head yardages, no GPS…and still $40 for 9 holes and a cart.
Embarrassing.
No yardage stakes, no sprinkler head yardages, no GPS…and still $40 for 9 holes and a cart.
Embarrassing.
Okay, I have said this to my friends but I am shocked that courses do not have summer rates for teachers.
Make it something like this
It is good for Monday-Thursday. Tee times have to be between 9am and before 3pm (because of the old men in the morning and the evening leagues), 500 dollars for the summer.
#9 or 18 is indeed brutal. I have had more than enough times that a good round of golf dissipated just down the hill from the clubhouse. Twin Creeks in Pender has similar to your "domed greens" but She was built on relatively flat ground. Some of Her greens will deliver your ball back to your feet but She lacks the natural terrain to deliver it 10-50' feet past you like Indian Trails can.
"Teachers?" Why not reduced rates for construction workers and others when on vacation or free membership for seniors, veterans and civil law enforcement, single Moms and the "undocumented"? Surely Shirly, you can understand the absurdity of your post.
North 48th next to Shakey’s Pizza (where they didn’t check IDs so good, and I got food poisoning once).
I don’t want no damn teachers clogging up the course when I’m trying to work from home.
Depends on what type of course. Sandhills for a dunes course. Mountain course is wolf creek in mesquite. For water type I’m going with TPC sawgrass if you are into Pete Dye courses. I’ll add Caledonia in Myrtle beach for a beautiful tree lined course in the Marshes
Yep , you can’t say Sandhills is a better course than TPC Sawgrass for example. Because they are completely different types of courses.
Top 10:
1. Sand Hills
2. Pebble Beach
3. Rock Creek Cattle Company (Deer Lodge, MT)
4. Spyglass Hill
5. Harvester
6. Tetherow (Bend, OR)
7. Cog Hill #4
8. Landmand
9. Wild Horse
10. Arborlinks
I have a bias for the dunes style courses. Honorable mention would be for Old Works in Anaconda Montana. Built on an old EPA cleaned mining site. The black sand bunkers are interesting.
1. Sand Hills
2. Pebble Beach
3. Rock Creek Cattle Company (Deer Lodge, MT)
4. Spyglass Hill
5. Harvester
6. Tetherow (Bend, OR)
7. Cog Hill #4
8. Landmand
9. Wild Horse
10. Arborlinks
I have a bias for the dunes style courses. Honorable mention would be for Old Works in Anaconda Montana. Built on an old EPA cleaned mining site. The black sand bunkers are interesting.
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