Most fun you've ever had on a golf course?

[SteveRadomski]

My all time experience was in late August 1997 at Royal Dornoch. My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Scotland and had a second wedding ceremony at the Dornoch cathedral after a morning round together.  I went out again by myself in the late afternoon. It was sunny with a slight steady wind, and suprisingly, very few people on the course. I hit two balls, played great and will probably never match that experience. I've played probably 50 of the top 100 ranked courses in the world but that is the experience that stands out over all the rest. I often wonder to myself if most people have that one experience that is most memorable?

[Tommy_Naccarato]

N.G.L.A.

[Brad Klein]

Royal Dornoch, Aug. 1987, kind of a pre-honeymoon with my wife, and we walked the course late in the evening with a 3/4 moon out and rabbits hopping about everywhere.

[Jlyon]

Ok Brad, I can't resist.  You claimed you were walking then hopping.  Which is it?

[cary lichtenstein]

I had my first hole in one and broke 70 for the first time in the same round that also included a whiff. I started out birdie, birdie, hole in one, double bogey. Need to hit a 4 wood over the water on 18, knocked it in a green side bunker and needed to get up and down to shot 69. I put it 2 inches from the cup, never had to putt. Whew!!!!!!!

[cary lichtenstein]

Most exciting architecture rounds have been my first time playing in no particular order:

Pebble
Cypress
Friars
National
First 6 holes of Spyglass
Pine Valley
Fisher's Island
Royal Dornock
River/Valley at Blackwolf Run
Ballybunion Cashen(for the sheer size of the dunes)
Old Head (just for the beauty)
St. Andrews (for the traditional)
Bethpage Black (for the scale)
Royal County Down
Teeth of the Dog
Summit(for the majestic views)
Shadow Creek and Whistling Straits (for arch achievement)
Augusta

[TEPaul]

At some green on the Everglades Club somewhere around 1963 and somewhere around 1am. It just flat beat even holing out my approach shot for eagle!

[Jfaspen]

Probably yesterday when i helped the team out by hitting some test shots at Sebonac.

Ha, jking.

My low score is 76.  I shot it via a 40-36.  About 3-4 holes into the back 9, I realized I was playing well and had a shot at breaking 77.  Everything just worked.  It was a damn good time at the reserve golf club in Pawleys Island, S.C.

Jeff

[Brad Klein]

TEP, you will need to explain that one. 1 a.m., making an eagle on the 18th. There's a lot to account for there.

Adam, we were walking; the rabbits were hopping. My wife (technically, she was not yet "my wife" then) was in the middle of reading "Golf in the Kingdom" at the time and was far more smitten with the book than I was.

Vostinak, I tend to shoot in the lows 70s, too, when I start on the 4th hole.

[GeoffreyC]

Playing quite well at an afternoon round at a firm and fast Cruden Bay carrying my bag after an AM round with a caddie to see all the quirks of the place.

[Brian Phillips]

One of my favourites was getting up at 5am to take photos of Sand Hills and watch the greenstaff work on the course as the sun came up over the horizon as well as bumping into Bruce Hepner realising that I wasn't the only geek up that early to watch the course come to life...

Brian

[Ash Towe]

Playing at Muirfield.  Getting there after booking over a year in advance and the course more than living upto expectations.  Enjoying the wonderful lunch afterwards and the hospitality and interest shown by the members.

[Wayne Freeman]

In 1967, just graduated from high school and my best friend and I decided to go to Pebble.  With a letter of intoduction from Eddie Merrins from Bel-Air CC where I caddied, we played 45 holes in one glorious day, all for $25. Unforgettable, exhausting, and a whole bunch of fun.

[TEPaul]

"TEP, you will need to explain that one. 1 a.m., making an eagle on the 18th. There's a lot to account for there.'

Brad:

I need to explain that, do I? I never said I made an eagle---I said it beat holing out for eagle and I never said anything about the 18th either. Whatever green it was I cannot recall and that was not of that much concern to me, all I know is it was quite soft and the night was lovely and things like Seth Raynor and golf architecture were the farthest thing from my mind! That's all I have to say other than I'm not easy and it wasn't my fault--she made me do it!

[Mike Hendren]

A tie:

Walking Cypress Point Club as a one man gallery to Lou Duran, Mike Cirba, Geoff Childs and Tom Huckaby.

Playing North Berwick's West Links with Frazier and James, two low-handicapped local teens playing a spirited match.

Solo at Kilspindie, teeing off before the sun rose.

Emergency nine scramble at Sand Hills where Rest-Of-The-World foursome of Hendren, Getka, Shivas and Turner trounced the homestanding Long Island 5-some.  

Note:  The Old Course is not fun - it is spiritual.

What a lucky man I am.

Mike

[tlavin]

I played Shoreacres for the first time in a Pro-Am with Fred Couples, Tom Purtzer and a close friend who was terminally ill with cancer.  I was a 20 at the time, playing with MacGregor persimmon woods and shot an 84, with about 24 putts, canning everything.  My friend shot 76 and was dead three weeks later.  The night before he died, he was watching a videotape of the outing and told his son, "Look where my hands are at the top of my backswing.  I gotta work on getting in the slot."  Priceless stuff.  Couples and Purtzer, as one would expect were perfect gentlemen and a bunch of fun to be with.

[THuckaby2]

All right, that all sounds like a heck of a lot of fun, and I remain honored to have my name appear on Mike Hendren's list...

but...

and I can't be the first one to think of this....

the most fun I've ever had on a golf course consisted of absolutely no golf.

 

[A_Clay_Man]

If Rihc had sunk his birdie on 18 at PG, that would've been the most fun ever. But as it was, it had to be the time Dan King sunk his driver from thirty yards out. Oh, wait, they were the same day. Honestly, how could one day, one hole, provide legendary, continuing, worldwide renowned fun, more than that?

[Tiger_Bernhardt]

Winning the first tournment I ever played in at age 10. Winning the district championship in high school, ok competion is fun. Watching a father and his 3 sons play TOC together, playing with my friends as a child learning the game and growing up on the course, playing Cypress on a perfect day with no one on the course but me and my caddie, sex with my gf on the 4th green at BDCC as a 16 year old, first time I saw Pebble Beach in real life, 1st time to tee off at TOC and having your name called, sitting on the 15th tee at Cypress drinking bourbon, playing 15 over and over again with 3 balls, and watching the sun set, same on 17 tee as well, same on 17 green chipping and putting. starting the new year as soon as I wake up playing a few holes.

[Andy Hodson]

Sounds like the twosomes had more fun than the foursomes. Probably finished quicker too.

 

[Dan Kelly]

I can't be the first one to think of this....

the most fun I've ever had on a golf course consisted of absolutely no golf.

 

Tom IV --

And just what did you think Tom I was talking about, eh?  

[THuckaby2]

I can't be the first one to think of this....

the most fun I've ever had on a golf course consisted of absolutely no golf.

 

Tom IV --

And just what did you think Tom I was talking about, eh?  

Skipped right by that one.  Figures THE Doyen continues in his infinite wisdom.

 

[Lance Rieber]

I remember the times of being on the course when I first fell in love with the game.  Buffalo Hills Golf Course, Kalispell Montana.  The course is right along the Stillwater River.   Playing with my brother and remembering how new everything thing felt.  Never have I had those experiences of just wanting to see the ball get into the air with the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains.  That John Denver wasn't full of shit.  Rocky Mountain High! Clubs were a hodge-podge and none were the same. Glove, golf shoes, heck no, just a bag that had room for 3 or 4 golf balls. I wish to someday again feel that innocence and not be so hard on myself.

[ForkaB]

The "Foursomes" threads got me thinking, and there have been a disproprotionately high number of insanely fun things that I have experienced playing that format, including:

1.  Playing an annual "Dads and Lads" competition over the Struie was a succession of 5-10 year old partners.  Being able to honestly say "Great Shot!" when your 5-year old girl partner toes it 20 yards forward into a bunker is priceless, as is.....

2.  Watching two brothers 6-putt from 5 feet on the 15th at Dornoch, with the first 4 putts each being longer than the preceding one, or........

3.  Playing in foursomes compeitions with my wife, and even winning a few when we were able to team up as if we were married!

[Mike_Cirba]

Sheep
Ranch

If you've never seen 12 middle-aged men running around with faces filled with the glee of children at an Easter egg hunt on a beautiful late afternoon, rediscovering the unadulterated, pure, raw emotions that brought them to the game in the first place, it's quite inspiring.

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