Agree with Mike Cirba on Dyker Beach. The course has a number of fine holes -- it will not be hosting the Open anyday soon though.
Clearly, it's moved beyond the days when burned out cars and who knows what else was found on the layout!
If anything I have a few muni's in Jersey that would clearly be prime suspects -- hint, just check out the ones in Essex and Bergen Counties.
If you want to talk about bad golf courses let me approach it from this perspective. Any course is bad when ...
*You must keep the cart on the paths all day less some hospitable Walter Brennan type will come lumbering after you.
*You get the pre-Broadway hype with some young snot nose kid wearing a walkie-talkie head gear and DEMANDING that he carry your bag. Then before teeing off you get DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS from another "ambassador" (no longer called ranger to be PC).
*You pay a mega amount to play the course and just after you begin you notice the course has several temporary greens and didn't inform you of this PRIOR to paying. Needless to say -- no refund comes you way if requested.
*Agree with my astute buddy Dr. Vostinak -- any course where you have to watch the rear ends of some slow poke group for 5+ hours is sheer torture. I'm waiting for the day when Pebble will build "scenic view" photo points and charge the player a "fee" for taking pictures. Bethpage Black is also a treat to play when the play backs up. I often refer to it as a Sunday NY Times course because you could easily sit and read a section of the paper BEFORE teing off at the next hole.