How Many Dead Guy Courses Have You Played

[Phil Benedict]

The ranking of dead architects got me thinking about how many dead guy courses I've actually played.  Even though it's probably a small number for this group, I was surprised to come up with 27:

Ross (9)
CBM/Raynor/Banks (
Tillinghast (6)
Fowler (2)
Trent Jones (2)

The Fowlers were both courses at Walton Heath, which I hadn't even thought about until I saw the dead guys rankings.

[Brent Hutto]

I come up with 24 courses by 12 dead guys, although almost certainly my top-of-head list omitted a handful of courses. I'll edit them in later as they come to mind. Of course a few of these dead guys are a couple ranks below the big names (George Cobb?) and some of them are not Old dead guys (Strantz, Trent Sr.).

D. Ross (7 courses played)

Pine Needles
Mid-Pines
Athens CC
Camden CC
Holston Hills
Southern Pines
Granville

A. MacKenzie (3.5 courses played)

Pasatiempo
Cypress Point
Palmetto (1/2)

M. Strantz (4 courses played)

Tobacco Road
True Blue
Caledonia
MPCC Shore

E. Maples (1 course played)

Columbia CC

H.K. Leeds (0.5 course played)

Palmetto (1/2)

H. Fowler (2 courses played)

Walton Heath Old
Walton Heath New

L. Purves (1 course played)

Littlestone

W. Park, Jr. (1 course played)

Huntercombe

R.T. Jones, Sr. (1 course played)

Spyglass Hill

G. Cobb (1 course played)

Fripp Island Ocean Point

J. Braid (1.5 courses played)

Walmer & Kingsdown
Royal Cinque Ports (1/2)

H. Hunter (0.5 course played)

Royal Cinque Ports (1/2)

[Chris_Clouser]

This is hard to determine because I would think of Bill Diddel in the ODG group.  And I have probably played close to fifty places in Indiana that he is supposed to have touched.  Also I have played about 20 Maxwell courses.  Now if you count walking courses that number grows to about 40.  

Aside from those two off the top of my head I think these would be the numbers.

RTJ (2) unless you count some renovations he did
Bendelow (3 or 4)
Ross (5)
Alison/Colt (1)  Not sure which way Milwaukee would be counted
Mackenzie (3)  Duh, I almost forgot about the work he did with Maxwell
Flynn (1)
Langford (2)
Tillie (2) Both in Oklahoma
Raynor (1)

This will be interesting to see how many people have seen a variety of designers or if they are a bunch of onesie-twosies (sp) or if they focus on one guy.  The results could be very geograpically biased towards a certain architect like mine because Diddel was based in Indiana.

[Kyle Harris]

Tillinghast:
Valley
Bethpage Black
Bethpage Red
Bethpage Blue/Yellow
Philadelphia Cricket Club
Galen Hall
Abington Club

Flynn:
Huntingdon Valley
Manufacturers'
Rolling Green
Cleveland Heights
Doylestown
Lancaster

Raynor:
Mountain Lake

Stiles/Van Kleek:
Lekarica

Ross:
Jeffersonville
Schuylkill
New Smyrna Beach
Dunedin
Torresdale/Frankford
Lulu

Wilson:
Merion (West)
Cobb's Creek (Olde)
Seaview (Bay)

Willie Park, Jr.:
Penn State (White)
Woodway
Glen Ridge

Thomas:
Whitemarsh Valley

Alex Findlay:
Reading CC
Galen Hall
Llanerch

That puts me at 31...  
32 if we count Xen Hassenplug and the venerable and elite Warminster's Five Ponds Golf Course, our local muni.

[Phil Benedict]

My list:

Ross:

Pinehurst 1,2,4 (pre-Fazio),5
Waterbury
Bass River
Mid-Pines
Pine Needles
The Orchards

CBM/Raynor/Banks

Yale
Hotchkiss
Mid-Ocean
Whippoorwill
Essex Country
Fox Chapel
Castle Harbour
Old White

Park

New Haven

Trent Jones

Lyman Orchards
Palmetto Dunes

Fowler

Walton Heath (2)

Tillinghast

Fenway
Baltusrol Lower
Winged Foot
Quaker Ridge
Saxon Woods
Scarsdale

I am a little dicey on some of these entries (eg Saxon Woods) but I think it's mostly correct.

[Tom_Doak]

I'm guessing I've probably played 300.

[Pete Lavallee]

OK, I'll go next:

Ross:

Whaling City GC
CC of New Bedford
Pocasett CC
Plymouth CC
Bass River GC
Bellview Biltmore East
Bellview Biltmore West
Pelican Bay

Egan:

Pebble Beach GL

Flynn:

Kittansett GC

Moreau:

Key West GC

Tilly:

Bethpage Black
Bethpage Red
Bethpage Blue
Bethpage Yellow

Thomas:

Riviera CC
Palos Verdes CC
Ojai Valley Inn
Marion GC (9 hole)

Raynor:

Lookout Mountain GC

RTJ Sr.:

Ballybunion New
Valencia CC
SCGA Members GC

Thompson:

Banff GC
Jasper GC

Wilson:

La Costa CC

Braid:

Gleneagles Kings
Gleneagles Queens
St Enodoc
Perranporth
Downfield
Shanklin and Sandown

Colt:

Ilse of Purbeck

Fowler:

Eastward Ho!
Westward Ho!
Walton Heath Old
Walton Heath New
Saunton

Mac Kenzie:

Lahinch
Cypress Point
Pasatiempo

Morris:

Royal County Down
Royal Dornoch

Park:

CC of New Bedford
Stoneham GC

Simpson:

Ballybunion Old

I could have been the leader in the Clubhouse with 45 if Doak hadn't beat me.

[Mike_Cirba]

Ironic that you asked this question today.   Earlier in the day I was curious as to how many vintage courses I'd played and I counted through my list to find that I'd played 201 courses built before 1950.  

[Steve Kline]

Just off the top of my head:

Ross: Pinehurst #1, #2, #4, #5, Mid Pines, Pine Needles, Southern Pines, Holston Hills, Hyde Park CC, Inverness

Crump: Pine Valley

RTJ: Spyglass, Point 'o Woods

Egan: Pebble Beach

Wilson: Coldstream CC

Raynor: Camargo

Strantz: Tobacco Road, Tot Hill Farm

I've played a lot of places in Scotland/England (most of the Open rota)but have no idea who designed any of them. I might have played more here but can't remember.

[Andy Troeger]

I did a quick look through my list of courses played. I came up with about 40.

Best of the bunch:

Crystal Downs (MacKenzie/Maxwell)
Cherry Hills (Flynn)
Point O'Woods (Jones, Sr.)
South Bend CC (O'Neil)
The Broadmoor East--CO (Ross/Jones Sr.)

[Andrew Mitchell]

Living and playing the vast majority of my golf in the UK I would guess nearly all of the courses I've played were by architects no longer with us!

[redanman]

I'd have to go add it up, but I'm guessing at least 200, maybe close to 250 of the 600-something I've played.

[wsmorrison]

I have no idea how many courses I've played but I would guess of the courses I have played, 90-95% or so are Dead Guy Architect designs, about the same percentage of books read by dead authors versus live ones.

[Evan_Smith]

I've played some very different courses than most on this post.

Thompson:
Cataraqui
Highlands Links
St. George's
Thornhill
Toronto Ladies
Summit
Westmount
Uplands(9 holes)
Allandale
Brantford
Saugeen(9 holes)
Briars(9 holes)
Kawartha
Peterborough
Owen Sound(9 holes)
Lingan(9 holes)

Ross:
Pinehurst 1,2,3,4-old,5-only a few holes are left
Southern Pines
Pine Needles
Mid Pines
Alamance
Kinderton
Bellevue
Immergrun

I have to run, I'll post more later.

[George Pazin]

Hey, some of you guys missed the memo: Burbeck did the Black!

 

Wayne, there's still lots of good writers out there today, both in the golf arena and out!

[Robert Emmons]

Mine:

Emmett..11

Egan..1

Flynn1

Gordon..3

CBM..5

Mackanzie1

Ross..5

Raynor..2

Tillinghast..5

Thompson..3

D. Wilson..3

H Wilson..1