Where are you playing 2007?

[Tiger_Bernhardt]

Sean, Nairn is my #2 course up north. It is a wonderful place that sans RAF takes your breath away with the greatness of the holes. Brora is Brora but Nairn is step above in my opinion.

[ForkaB]

Tiger

You are entitled to your opinoin, but you are wrong. Nairn has a tough time cracking the top 5 in the North of Huntly division of Scottish courses (ahead of it are, or may be--Dornoch, Brora, Skibo, Lossiemouth (Old) and Peterhead, at least).  Sean is correct in trying out the true hidden gem that is Golspie.

Rich

[Matt MacIver]

I'm embarking on my first golf trip to Scotland next May and will play Western Gailes, Troon, Prestwick, Turnberry, Gleneagles Kings, TOC, Jubilee, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns.  

Then I'll work on some locals I haven't yet seen, but the hall pass might be fully punched after my Scotland foray.  

[Eric Olsen]

Bandon Dunes, Jan 12-15

[Andrew Mitchell]

Garland I am in deed a most fortuitous fellow.  Two years ago for a family weekend she found a house in Lincolnshire, with a swimming pool.  “Oh don't worry not all of Lincolnshire is flat this is on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds and it's supposed to be lovely.  And with this house you get £10 off the local course in a village called Woodhall Spa".

This is the same woman who in discussing family holidays last year said “you know I’ve always fancied Scotland” (Dornoch/North Berwick) and the year before booked a house 400 yards from Golf de Biarritz le Phare.

I swear on my original copy of The Badminton Library ‘Golf’, not a word of this is made up.

Tony
and you have the nerve to comment on my abilities to persuade my better half to holiday in golfing regions

So far 2007 promises:
GCA East Lothian trip in March - Musselburgh Old (repeat visit but first with hickories ); North Berwick (umpteenth repeat but never tire of it) and Muirfield (first time).

Golf trip to Majorca - no idea what we will encounter but will all be first timers

Buda Cup V - repeat visits to Alwoodley and Moortown

I'm currently working longer term (2008 or 2009) on a holiday with my non golfing wife to Northern Ireland which would take in rounds at RCD and Portrush.

[Mike Benham]

I will become a Bandonista in '07, of the winter variety.

Also plan on visiting a few old ladies, such as Olympic (I actually carded 2 rounds on my home course in Novmeber, that must be a record), Spyglass and Pacific Grove, and a few younger lasses such as Barona and Talking Stick.

And my Vizsla has been invited to go to Ballyneal

[Cory Lewis]

Where I will play in 2007 will depend on where I get a job, at this point it's looking like Chicago, staying put in Philly, or in the mountains of NC.  If I end up in Chicago then Whistling Straits/Blackwolf will be high on my priority list along with Lawsonia.  At some point next year I would really like to get to The Creek as it's the only big name Raynor/Banks course in the northeast I haven't seen yet.  

[ForkaB]

Here are my opportunities (in rough chronological order), although I'll be lucky to make 2/3 of them, and I'm sure there will be others:

Aberdour, Gullane, Auchterderan, North Berwick, Dornoch, Struie, Southerndown, Kingsbarns, Great Yarmouth & Caister, Pitreavie, Elie, Brora, Golpsie, Skibo, West Lancs., Alwoodley, Moortown, St. Jean de Monts, Stirling, Monifieth, Carnoustie, Hamilton, Aberdovey, Lemon Bay, Gasparilla, Trevose

[Kyle Henderson]

My brother is finishing his M.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill in May and he's a big fan of Tot Hill Farm (Strantz course... I love it but prefer Tobacco Road), so I'm hoping to engineer a carbon copy of last Fall's Dixie Cup that I was unable to attend (Caledonia, True Blue, and hopefully I can figure out a way to get the two of us onto Bull's Bay).

I also plan to visit a friend in the Simi Valley and play Moorpark Country Club (Jacobson Hardy, 27 holes) and the 2 courses at Lost Canyon (Dye & Couples).

[B_Smith]

Camargo!
Double Eagle
Muirfield Village
Scioto
The Golf Club
Fox Chapel
NGLA
Yale
Creek
Piping Rock
Mountain Lake, Seminole, Indian Creek (FLA vacation)
Fishers Island
Shoreacres
Chicago GC
Lookout Mountain

I might even make a detour thru Georgia on one of my trips..

[Tom Huckaby]

Augusta National
Fisher's Island
Pine Valley
Merion
NGLA
Maidstone
Friar's Head
Shinnecock Hills
The Creek Club
Quaker Ridge
Winged Foot (36)
Piping Rock
Garden City
Oakmont
Chicago GC
Crystal Downs
The Kingsley Club
Seminole
Cypress Point
Barnbougle Dunes
St. Andrews Beach
Royal Melbourne
Victoria National
Kingston Heath
Royal Adelaide

Should be a hell of a year.

 

[Geoffrey Childs]

Huck

Sorry to hear about your divorce.

[Tom Huckaby]

Huck

Sorry to hear about your divorce.

 

I was wondering who would see that first, and what the reaction might be.  That is a great one.  

 

[Mike Benham]

Huck

Sorry to hear about your divorce.

Let me know when Yahoo is announcing the layoffs so I can sell short ...

[Tom Huckaby]

Huck

Sorry to hear about your divorce.

Let me know when Yahoo is announcing the layoffs so I can sell short ...

Just missed being first... but that is damn good too.  Very Huntleyan.

 

[Jordan Wall]

Huck,

Made some new friends at Chicago GC?
I thought you were never going back...
 

[Tom Huckaby]

Huck,

Made some new friends at Chicago GC?
I thought you were never going back...
 

Also very good... this is good stuff.

As for going back, it's easy to turn something down if one is not invited.

 

[Geoffrey Childs]

Huck,

Made some new friends at Chicago GC?
I thought you were never going back...
 

Also very good... this is good stuff.

As for going back, it's easy to turn something down if one is not invited.

 

Tom - true story

Noel and I were just at Chicago Golf Club this fall before going up to Erin Hills and Kohler.  During our round we happened to mention you and your "experience" there and it is apparently well known among the membership.  I would suggest that you change your name if you want to go back  

[Tom Huckaby]

GC:

I too had heard that I'm persona non grata there.  Oh well... just shows the power of the internet.

BTW I exaggerated nothing.  I was truly treated like shit there.  But oh well.... maybe one way to look at my story (though I'm not counting on it) is that some of the members and staff learn that treating guests like crap might not go unnoticed.  And if so, then my gift to golf society is complete.

 

[Mike_Cirba]

The following is sort of my "wish list" of courses I haven't played before that are either within reasonable driving distance or close to where I travel on business sometimes.  They run the gamut, but so do most of the courses I play;

Asterisk is something meaningful only to me, parentheses means the course is yet to open.

PA
Fox Hill*
Waynesborough*
Penn State (White)*
Penn State (Blue)*
Saucon Valley (Weyhill)*
 (Jack Frost National)
Philadelphia Cricket (Wissahickon)
Philadelphia Cricket (Miliita Hill)
Spring Mill
Woodstone
Bellewood
Brookside
Springford
Saucon Valley (Grace)
Mahoning Valley
St. Davids
Lancaster
Oakmont

DE
Kings Creek*
Fieldstone*
Bidermann*
Dupont*
White Clay Creek
(Saint Anne’s)

NJ
Ballamor*
Liberty National*
Bayonne*
Manasquan River*
Echo Lake*
Morris County*
Upper Montclair*
Essex County*
Mountain Ridge*
Spring Lake*
Westlake*
Forsgate (Banks)
Somerset Hills
Woodcrest
Berkshire Valley

MD
Fountain Head*
Blue Mash
Cross Creek
Hollow Creek
Renditions
Compass Pointe
(Riddle Farms – Man Of War)
(Riddle Farms – War Admiral)
Hunter’s Oak
Four Streams
Baltimore (East - Five Farms)

NY
Shenandoah*
Kaluhyat*
Atunyote*
Tuegega*
Troy*
Monroe*
Century*
Seawane*
Inwood*
Branton Woods*
Scarsdale*
Siwanoy*
Leatherstocking*
Rockaway Hunting*
Greystone*
Ravenwood*
Monroe*
Corning

CT
Wintonbury Hills*
Gillette Ridge*

IA
Harvester*

MN
Dacotah Ridge*

SD
Dakota Dunes*

VA
Laurel Hill*
Royal New Kent*
Kinloch

[Geoffrey Childs]

GC:

I too had heard that I'm persona non grata there.  Oh well... just shows the power of the internet.

BTW I exaggerated nothing.  I was truly treated like shit there.  But oh well.... maybe one way to look at my story (though I'm not counting on it) is that some of the members and staff learn that treating guests like crap might not go unnoticed.  And if so, then my gift to golf society is complete.

 

Tom

We all know that between the two of us I am much more likely to be identified as the "troublemaker"   so I can't for the life of me understand your experience.  In two visits I can honestly say that CGC staff, hosts and membership could not have been more gracious, hospitable and generous.

[Tom Huckaby]

GC - I've heard that as well.  That's why I chalked it up years ago to just a couple people having a bad day... which of course makes me feel bad as likely no current members ever get THAT part of my story.  

I think what I figured out was they really didn't like my "host".. that is the guy who got me on... not a member, but a friend of such... and if you knew that guy it would make all the sense in the world.

I was a dickhead by association, so to speak, and got treated as such.

Only problem is, especially when I'm a guest at a fancy private club like that, I am not a dickhead.  Thus the treatment rather resonated with me.

 

[Jason Mandel]

The following is sort of my "wish list" of courses I haven't played before that are either within reasonable driving distance or close to where I travel on business sometimes.  


St. Davids

Mike,

Didn't  you play St. David's with Mike Trenham and Wayne?  I only remember this because I was part of that 4some before that infamous incident of me losing my keys

Jason

[mark chalfant]

for  2007-08....

Woods Hole
Shuttle Meadow
Kankakee Elks
Flying Horse
Merion
Galloway
Battle Creek
Stanford

Lookout Point
Kawartha
Dedham
Berkshire
Addington
Hague
Kennemer
Royal Antwerp

[Kyle Harris]

Mike,

Let's put something together for the early summer and the Penn State courses. By then, some of the green work on the White should be completed along with tree removal.

Fox Hill is wonderful, I'm sure it brings up great memories of home for you.