Where are you playing 2008?

[Marty Bonnar]

BUDA - June.
USofA in May. Yippee!!!
Right-hand side this time. Pennsylvania and NY.
Visiting with The Man of Redan and Lady Redan. (thanks again for the 'Laddie', big bruv!)
Also to west end of state (Dubois) to visit with our scottish friends who moved there last year.
Clubs will be packed...

FBD.

[mark chalfant]

2008

Reading  (Findlay)
Paterson  (RTJ)
Bonnie Briar (Emmet)
Olympic Cliffs  (Weiskopf)

Shuttle Meadow  (Park)
Shelter  Harbor  (Hurzdan)
Stanford   (Thomas)
Pechanga   (Hills)
Sankaty  Head


2009  hopefully

Old Town  Maxwell
Sedgefield   Ross
Bedford Springs  Oldham  Forse
Hay  Harbor

Lancaster  Flynn
West Bend   Langford
St. Germain  Colt
Royal  Hague

[Mike_Cirba]

Courses I've not played before that I'm hoping to drive to this coming year, by state.   If I can get to 80% of them it will be a fantastic year.  Of course, I'm also hoping to get in some air travel, as well.  

PA

Bedford Springs (Oldham/Ross/Tilly)
Wyoming Valley (Bendelow/Tilly)
Saucon Valley (Any or All) (Strong/Maxwell/Gordons/Fazio)
Oakmont (Fownes)
Irem Temple (Tilly)
Berkshire (Park Jr.)
Spring-Ford (Meehan)
Berwick (Meehan)

DE

Bidermann (Wilson)
Saint Anne's (Liddicoat/Coruzzi/Furyk)

NJ

Bayonne (Bergstol)
Manasquan River (White)
Essex County (Tilly/Raynor/Banks)
Mountain Ridge (Ross)
Forsgate (Banks)
Deal (Von Etten/Ross)
Liberty National (Cupp/Kite)
Somerset Hills (Tilly)
Glen Ridge (Park Jr.)

MD

Riddle Farms (Both) (Weiman)
Compass Pointe (Ervin)
Blue Mash (Hills)
Elkridge (Raynor)
Four Streams (Smyers)
Hunters Oak (Scott-Taylor)

NY

Laurel Links (Moran)
Troy (Travis)
Monroe (Ross)
Mill Creek (Hearn/Albanese)
Inwood (Eriksen/Strong/Mackie)
Wykagyl (A host of dead guys)

VA

Royal New Kent (Strantz)
Kinloch (George)

NC

Pinehurst #2 (Ross)
Tobacco Road (Strantz)

MA

Kittansett (Flynn)
Eastward Ho (Fowler)

[Scott_Burroughs]

Olde Liberty G&CC, Franklinton, NC


Cirba,

Are we directionally challenged in MA?  

Is the NC trip in mid-March or other?  Would love to join you ("show you around") at TR....

[Mike_Cirba]

Olde Liberty G&CC, Franklinton, NC


Cirba,

Are we directionally challenged in MA?  

Is the NC trip in mid-March or other?  Would love to join you ("show you around") at TR....

Scott,

Yikes on Eastward Ho!     I'll edit it.  

I'm still betwixt/between about the March trip.   You'll be the first to know if I decide to go.  

[Brad Tufts]

A bit of a down year, considering the wedding and all...

Grove Park?

Essex/Myopia/Concord (the usual visits)

Some sort of NYC-area course...Hudson National or Bethpage

Upstate NY adventure in Oct....Cornell/Turning Stone/Mark Twain/Leatherstocking?

Raleigh again at some pt...SPCC/Tobacco Rd.?

Then the normal MA wish-list....Boston GC, Old Sandwich, Sankaty Head, Worcester CC...

[Lloyd_Cole]

I'm officially retiring from the hit and run club, I can't run with this knee anyhow..

I have modest goals. I'd like to spend 2 or 3 days at 6 or 7 courses I'd like to study. This rules out heavy green fees unless there are day rates available.
 
Ideally - Dornoch and Brora, Swinley and Sunningdale, and a couple of Thomsons in Canada, and maybe Black Mesa. With the Buda, and hopefully, the Dixie Cup, that should do me.

I'd also like to meet as many of you folk as I can on my travels. My website has updated concert listings, feel free to IM me if any of you want to get to a show, if I have guest spots free, and I often do, you'll be welcome to them.

[Mark Bourgeois]

Tom Birkert -- I might just take you up on that, if you'll promise to join me. (I'm with Lloyd: the less solo golf the better...)

Can someone help me? I am looking for the best worst-weather course to play.  I have been disappointed in my recent choices by good weather.

The ideal course must meet these criteria:
1. Be designed for the bad weather of choice: no temporary greens, hitting mats, etc.
2. Be playable in the bad weather. (I have a very elastic definition of "playable:" Don't mind balls moving all over the place or exhibiting weird (for Rich: wierd) aeronautical maneuvers. (Call this the "X-Files" criterion.)
3. Have architecture not only resistant to the bad weather, but if possible enhanced by it.

Assume I can travel anywhere on the planet...but need to be reasonably close to a "major" airport.

I would guess signs point toward a links in winter -- in which case, which links would offer the greatest "elemental" test? It must meet the criteria above!

Food for thought:
Bad -- TOC off mats
Ideal -- President's Putter-type conditions at Rye

Thanks for the suggestions,
Mark

[Mark Pearce]

The Elie Links Championship 2007 was played in a howling gale with pouring rain.  I question whether playing in heavy rain can ever be fun, but I actually had a good time and th course remained very playable.

I sincerely hope you do't get to experience Elie in bad weather in June, though a good wind would be nice.

[Sean_A]

I really enjoy reading about where folks want to play.  The ones which really jump out as very interesting are Engineers, Myopia, Leatherstocking & Eastward Ho!  All wonderful names and ones I would like to know more about.

Ciao

[Mark Bourgeois]

Mark

Summer this year in Scotland will be on 15 June, so no worries there. We'll see about the 14th, 16th, and 17th...

Sean you of all people should be able to help out....what courses rise to the challenge of the "Worst Best?"

Mark

[Mark_F]

Leatherstocking.  All wonderful names and ones I would like to know more about.

Sean,

Would you be able to concentrate playing a course called Leatherstocking? I would be constantly wondering when the club mascot was going to make an appearance.

[Evan Fleisher]

I'll continue to whittle down the list of courses I have yet to play in the Cleveland area since moving here last year...but more importantly will be concentrating on as many courses as possible in the SoCal area as I'll be traveling there quite a bit in 2008 (epsecially in the August to November timeframe).

Look out California!!!  

[Michael Powers]

The Country Club
Myopia Hunt
Essex County Club
Dedham Country and Polo
Kittansett

Forrest Creek
Pinehurst No. 2, No. 4
Mid Pines
Pine Needles

[Tom Yost]

No out of town trips on my schedule, but hoping to be flexible in the event something pops up (like a GCA.com related event maybe...   ).

I've rejoined the men's club at Longbow Golf Club (Kavanaugh) in Mesa AZ and will be playing there frequently.  Maybe I can solve the puzzle of the greens this year.

I would also like to get out to Vista Verde (also Kavanaugh) when they re-open.  Hoping to check out Forrest's re-do's at the Biltmore and the Wigwam.  

Other than those, I still have a big list of unplayed publics here in the greater Phoenix area, most of those are not particularly notable.


Tom

[Ed Oden]

I am new to GCA, so I will make my first post an easy one.  

Definites for 2008 are:

Congressional
Plainfield
Sherwood CC
LACC
Old Town
Charlotte CC (newly restored)
Diamond Creek (as many times as I can get there)
Palmetto GC (during Masters week)

I also hope to play some of the following, mostly as add-ons to the above trips:

Burning Tree
Baltimore CC
Caves Valley
Kinloch
Pine Valley
Merion
Aronomink
Somerset Hills
Morris County
Riviera

[Bob_Huntley]

The River Club
Royal Cape
Mowbray
Durban Country Club
Humewood
Nchanga
Chililabombwe


Bob

[PThomas]

The River Club
Royal Cape
Mowbray
Durban Country Club
Humewood
Nchanga
Chililabombwe


Bob

just another ho-hum, typical list of commonplace courses Bob

I love the names of the last two courses.....i wonder what kind of logos they have....

[tlavin]

A list of the likely candidates:


Shoal Creek
Mountain Lake
Crystal Downs
Bandon Dunes & Sheep Ranch
Colonial
Bellerive
Royal Dornoch
Pennard
Cascata
Shadow Creek

[Craig Sweet]

I am taking what money I have and joining Canyon River, the Curley/Schmidt course in East Missoula...

And if I'm lucky I'll get to play Doak's Rock Creek Cattle Club sometime this summer...

[Walt_Cutshall]

I'm going to sample the fare around Hilton Head:

Long Cove (replay)
Secession (replay)
Harbour Town
Colleton River (both courses)
Belfair (both)
Berkley Hall (both)
Kiawah-The Ocean Course and two others

May also get down to TPC Sawgrass.

Nothing else planned right now, but plans pop up in March and April as my local golf buddies get the golfing jones.

[Bob_Huntley]

The River Club
Royal Cape
Mowbray
Durban Country Club
Humewood
Nchanga
Chililabombwe


Bob

just another ho-hum, typical list of commonplace courses Bob

I love the names of the last two courses.....i wonder what kind of logos they have....

Paul


Nchanga has the Flame Liliy.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloriosa_(plant)


The Konkola GC at Chililabombwe used to have a hippo, not sure if it has been changed.


Bob

[PThomas]

a hippo!   has to be one of the cooler logos in golf Bob

[Tim Book]

I figured I would jump into GCA with a 'softball'

Annual buddies trip this year is our initial trek to Pinehurst in April.  Planning on an agenda of

Tobacco Road
Pine Needles
Pinehurst #4, #8 & #2.

Probably have a tune-up in Palm Desert at

Shadow Ridge
Silver Rock

Goals for the rest of the year include:

Coeur d'Alene
The Club @ Black Rock
Circling Raven
Bethpage Black

and as many trips locally to Barona as possible.

[JC Jones]

I see some pretty top drawer lists on here, mine is much more modest (I'm in Michigan so you'll see a theme here):

Not seen before:

The Mines
Greywalls
Forest Dunes

Regular rotation:

High Pointe
Belvedere
Arcadia Bluffs

2 courses I played in 2007 that I go to church regularly to pray I get to play them again:

Kingsley Club
Crystal Downs