[Brian_Ewen]

 
Guys
Got a good laugh out of this Top 100 list in this months Golf World (UK) .

This is their take on the Top 100 Golf Courses in the World by ""the experience , rather than the just the playing merits of the course . """

Kabul GC ahead of Sand Hills ? .

Anyone played No.10 Le Touessrok , in Mauritius ? . Excuse my ignorance but I had never heard of it  . Bernhard Langer design on its own island , the aerial photo in the article shows it as a stunning location .
 
 
   1. Pebble Beach
   2. St. Andrews
   3. Bandon Dunes
   4. Whistling Straits
   5. Kingsbarns
   6. Turnberry
   7. Sawgrass
   8. Pine Valley
   9. Cypress Point
 10. Le Touessrok
 11. Augusta National
 12. Valderrama
 13. Shinnecock Hills
 14. Durban CC
 15. Royal Conty Down
 16. Prestwick
 17. Mission Hills , Shenzen
 18. Loch Lomond
 19. The K Club
 20. Gleneagles
 21. Ballybunion
 22. Woodhall Spa
 23. St.Endoc
 24. Lost City
 25. Rye
 26. The Island
 27. Royal St.Georges
 28. Carne
 29. TPC at Scottsdale
 30. The European
 31. Stone Canyon
 32. Royal Troon
 33. Gotemba
 34. Carnoustie
 35. Wentworth
 36. New South Wales
 37. Muirfield
 38. The Machrie
 39. Royal Portrush
 40. Royal Liverpool
 41. Cruden Bay
 42. Formby
 43. Metropolitan
 44. Queenwood
 45. Western Gailes
 46. The Belfry
 47. Hans Merensky
 48. Mount Juliet
 49. The Green Monkey
 50. Woburn
 51. Ganton
 52. Royal Dornoch
 53. Ellerston
 54. Royal Birkdale
 55. Crans Sur Sierre
 56. C'Oeur D'Alene
 57. Mauna Kea
 58. Moscow CC
 59. Old Head  
 60. Fancourt
 61. Uummanaq
 62. Doonbeg
 63. Machrihanish
 64. Royal Porthcawl
 65. The Bears Best , Nevada
 66. Tralee
 67. Royal Blackheath
 68. Boulders
 69. Skibo Castle
 70. Walt Disney World , Florida
 71. Royal Lytham & St.Annes
 72. Royal Dar Es Salam
 73. Barnbougle Dunes
 74. Teeth of the Dog
 75. Stoke Park
 76. Lahinch
 77. Royal North Devon
 78. Sunningdale
 79. Pinx Golf Club
 80. Praia Del Ray
 81. Dubai Creek
 82. Swinley Forest
 83. Les Bordes
 84. Wynn GC
 85. Walton Heath
 86. Bjorkliden Arctic
 87. Nefyn
 88. Blue Canyon
 89. Royal Aberdeen
 90. Kapalua
 91. Kabul GC
 92. Lindrick
 93. Musselburgh
 94. Sand Hills
 95. Highland Links
 96. Donegal
 97. The Gezira Club
 98. Prison View
 99. Shiskine
100. Cape Kidnappers

[Joe Hancock]

Perhaps valid under their own criteria. Whatever.

Joe

[Jim Franklin]

I guess the author had a bad experience at Pacific Dunes as Bandon makes it to #4 and PD is excluded. There is no way he could fly 9 million miles and just play Bandon Dunes.

[Mitch Hantman]

Interesting selection for the overall experience at Sawgrass coming in at #7.  I really like the course, but as a resort, play tends to be quite slow, and my first time playing there, we arrived at the shop at noon, during a very heavy lightning storm.  When I asked about our 1:15 starting time, I was told they're running right on time.  I said how can there be golfers teeing off in this lightning, I was told, "I guess it's not lightning on the first tee".  I was further told if we don't tee off then, the next available time was at 4:35pm.  Ahh, the experience.......

"thank you very little"

[Tom_Doak]

How did they justify printing that list in the article that went along with it?  Is it just the editors' opinion or did they do a poll?

It looks suspiciously like a way to keep some advertisers happy.  Le Touessrok, for example, can now advertise themselves as "Golf World top 10 in the world" for the rest of time.

It's possible that all the courses at Bandon Dunes, put together, are what put it at #3 ... can't tell for sure just from the listing, but they have "Walt Disney World" as one listing, too.  And where the heck is Uummanaq?  Or The Gezira Club?

[Bill Gayne]

Shadow Creek not on a list of top 100 by experience???

[Mike Erdmann]

TPC Scottsdale ahead of Muirfield, Cruden Bay & Royal Dornoch???

[Brian_Ewen]

Tom
The Gezira Club is 9 holer built by the British over a 100 years ago in Cairo , and you can see the Pyramids from the course ! .

Uummanaq is in Greenland and hosts the world ice golf championships , "biggest hazard Polar Bears" .

Have you any experience of Le Touessrok ? .

Brian

PS. Where is our 'Dunhill' report ? .

[Mike_Sweeney]

How did they justify printing that list in the article that went along with it?  Is it just the editors' opinion or did they do a poll?

It looks suspiciously like a way to keep some advertisers happy.  Le Touessrok, for example, can now advertise themselves as "Golf World top 10 in the world" for the rest of time.

It's possible that all the courses at Bandon Dunes, put together, are what put it at #3 ... can't tell for sure just from the listing, but they have "Walt Disney World" as one listing, too.  And where the heck is Uummanaq?  Or The Gezira Club?

Tom,

Lighten up man.   For crying out loud they have Prison View Golf Course @ #98 , which I doubt has much of a advertising budget:

Prison View Golf Course is located on the grounds of Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, LA, and is operated by the Louisiana State Penitentiary Employee Recreation Committee.

Prison View offers players a challenging round of golf, practice facility and Clubhouse.

Number 1 tee box is elevated approx. 75 yards in the Tunica Hills offering a spectacular view of Louisiana’s only maximum security prison

www.prisonview.com

Westward Ho! too!

[michael_j_fay]

These chaps have spent little time at either Crystal Downs or Fishers Island.

There aren't eighteen decent holes at Disney World out of the 108 they offer. Must of been one heck of a time at Magic Mountain!

[Tom_Doak]

Mike S:

A friend of mine has already noted with glee that Prison View was two places ahead of Kidnappers.  At least it finished behind Barnbougle!

I'm not taking this too seriously; I just don't understand their motives.  A weird list like this one certainly undermines the credibility of their supposedly serious lists of the best courses in Britain and Europe and so on, because you know a course is going to tout their highest placing no matter what list they're on ... i.e. is Kingsbarns #5 in Britain, #5 in Europe, or just #5 on this dumb thing?

[Chris Kane]

So Metropolitan is a better "experience" than Barnbougle Dunes?

[Mark_Guiniven]

Kabul GC story

[Shane Gurnett]

So Metropolitan is a better "experience" than Barnbougle Dunes?

And even better than RM Chris!

[Philippe Binette]

I'll have a lot more fun driving up Magnolia lane than the road to Kingbarns, as for experience only

[Dan Herrmann]

The K Club?  The K Club???

I attended the European Open a few years ago at the K Club, and was pretty underwhelmed.   To put it ahead of other great Irish courses is a statement about style over substance.

And I've been to Bandon and Pine Valley, and, belive me, as much as I love Bandon, I'd choose the PV experience every time if I could only play one course for the rest of my life.  

[Philippe Binette]

I am also pretty sure that Sand Hills is a boring, stupid and useless experience compare to the...

TPC AT SCOTTSDALE....


HA HA HA HA

[Brian_Ewen]

Curious .

Does Pebble Beach deserve to be Number One ? .

[Tony_Muldoon]

Although Mark Rowlinson has been complaining on here about the pitiful standard of the UK golf mags for at least the last 18 months they really have gone downhill this year. IF you think this list is crazy you should see some of the others.  One of them published a list of the top ten new courses in UK - no Grove or Kingsbarns- but highlighted The Vale in Wales a course that defines Doak Scale 0.

It all seems to have started when a new monthly came out called 'Golf Punk'.  This featured a lot of hip attitude and the bunker babes!   Since then the others have panicked and it’s list after list after list to supplement the endless second string pro’s giving tips – which are often contradictory within the same issue!

Following a recent redesign, Today’s Golfer (the biggest seller) now looks just like the other two big sellers.  I can now no longer tell Golf apart from Golf World.  One is published in London and the other in Peterborough and in the last episode of the London one I saw they  had dropped their female editor and gone over to - your guessed it lists of this and that.  All of them are entirely devoid of interest to GCA types - save your money.  

Here's a list of things the editors should note.

Most unpleasantly smarmy UK Journalist
1 Paul Mahoney

Most wasted talented UK Journalist
2 Jock Wallace.

In London I can occasionally pick up copies of the US magazines but am I wrong to think Golf has deteriorated in the last couple of years?

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