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T_MacWood:
There has been a lot written about great NLE courses - thanks to Daniel Wexler. What are some of the greatest designs never built? A couple of potential greats that come to mind:

Hutchison and Campbell's Modern Course at St. Andrews
MacKenzie's Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula

There were a couple on the coast in SoCal that never materialized, but I don't know that much about them.

michael_j_fay:
The DuPont CC in Wilmington, DE by Donald Ross.

Patrick_Mucci:
Tom MacWood,

The second 18 at Gibson Island ?

The Flynn Course at York ?

Jfaspen:
I'd be curious to see what would have been the women's course at PV.

wsmorrison:
Pat,

The Ross course at York was built, Flynn lost the competition to Ross.  The two courses are quite different, I'll leave it to others to decide which they find more appealing.  The Flynn course was a wonderful design.  Too bad the Yorkies didn't want the same as Lancasters.  It would have been the War of the Roses in the middle of Pennsylvania!

Flynn's second course at Eagles Mere was amazing.  It was almost finished but the Depression stopped the project and finally led to the demise of the 9 holes that were built out of 18 planned.

Opa Locka was another that was started but not completed.  It would have been one of the best courses in Florida if it was finished.

Flynn's two Ritz Carlton courses in Boca Raton would have been good if the Mizner project did not go bankrupt.  But the real gems would have been the North and especially the South courses built for Geist.

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