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Tyler Ince

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In my travels I have managed to play a few fun courses and am looking for a few more.  Currently I am only lacking Australia as the only continent I have not hit a golf ball on (but there in a week). No course in Antarctica but did hit a ball there when I went last year.

Here are a few favorites:

Highest regulation course: La Paz Country Club, La Paz Bolivia. Wow the ball soared here!

Southernmost course: Ushuiaia Golf Club, Argentina

Amazon - Iquitos, Peru (can't say country club) played with the "pro" here.

Now I am looking for a few more adventurous courses. Want to play the RTJ Trail and some of those really long courses.  Looking to make the GCA trip to Australia next month and hopefull add New Zealand afterwards.  Look forward to seeing some of you guys down under.

Tyler
'til the Road Hole....

Malcolm Mckinnon

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How about golfing in the Urban Jungle?

Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, NY or Cobbs Creek, in Philadelphia?

Andrew Thomson

You'll need some time on your hands.....

http://www.nullarborlinks.com/


Brian Stewart

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Paradise Golf & Lake Resort in Sao Paulo was an odd experience as my Portuguese is shaky at best and no one else spoke English so I mostly tried Spanish which they understood but could not speak.  It took a while for me to understand that I was supposed to stop and eat a long lunch between 9s.  http://www.paradiseresort.com.br/br/home/

Bukit Jalil Golf & Country Resort in Kuala Lumpur.  I got into a fun money game here and playing off an 8 (their best guess as they don't have slope and rating).  Shot an 81 but my partner, a 9, shot a 92 and cost me $160MYR.  He then proceded to buy lunch and drinks for everyone so it worked out in the end and I actually ended up hanging out there most of the day even though I don't speak any Chinese so communication was difficult.  I've played in their game twice since and had fun each time but no longer lose money as I know who to pick now :) http://www.berjayaclubs.com/Jalil/

Awana Golf & Country Resort in Genting Highlands, MY.  Apparently you need to be a "country resort" in Malaysia.  Anyway, the course conditions were listed as "wet" and so we thought, no big deal as it wasn't raining.  I then proceeded to lose 7 balls over the course of the round that I could see land in the FW.  The ball plugged so deep that you literally couldn't find it.  That and a monkey tried to steal my range finder and then chased us after we tried to take video of her.  http://www.awana.com.my/en/awana_genting/golf/intro.htm

Fiesta Lakes in Mesa, AZ.  When I was a bit younger after I had first really started playing the game I moved to the PHX area.  I then made it my goal to play every course in the area (made it but now miss some of the later ones).  This one is without a doubt the most oddball one.  A little par 3 course with a driving range that closely resembles a backyard.  Nonetheless it was fun to check off and play it in like 35 minutes.




Mac Plumart

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I don't really have any great experience with random or desolate courses, but Tobacco Road was the most bizarre course I've played to date.

Sportsman/Adventure loving golfer.

Joe Bausch

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I've played the world's lowest elevation golf course at 214' below sea level, the Furnace Creek Golf Course in Death Valley, CA.  Played it in January, thankfully!  ;D
@jwbausch (for new photo albums)
The site for the Cobb's Creek project:  https://cobbscreek.org/
Nearly all Delaware Valley golf courses in photo albums: Bausch Collection

Gary Slatter

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two of my favourites:  the nine hole Manchester Golf Club in Jamaica (hardly changed in 145 years of play) and the Habana CC in Cuba. Scorecard was printed on the back of a 25 year old IBM printout.

or the Castle Course.
Gary Slatter
gary.slatter@raffles.com

Doug Wright

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I used to do a post annually about the World Ice Golf Championships in Greenland, but alas it now seems to be NLE:

http://www.golf.com/golf/gallery/article/0,28242,1670474-7,00.html

Twitter: @Deneuchre

Tyler Ince

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OK Cuba, Greenland, Death Valley are definitely on the list now.  Thanks for your responses I will even look into NYC, Jamaica and Tobacco Road.

Someone also sent me this link to the hardest par 3 in the world. Videos of Harrington playing are pretty cool.

http://twistedsifter.com/2009/05/the-longest-par-3-in-the-world-900-yards-legend-golf-safari-resort-south-africa/
'til the Road Hole....

Jaeger Kovich

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how bout on a island in the atlantic off the coast of Belize! I regret not taking the opportunity to play here when in Belize in 09.

http://www.privateislandsmag.com/2008/08/caye-chapel-belize/

Simon Holt

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I cant remember the name of it but I played at a golf course in Chittagong, Bangladesh, in Feb. 2003.  Pretty random experience.

We had caddies and the member insisted on paying.  I asked how much anyway and he said usually 50 taca (about 50 pence!), he sloped off after 9 holes so I slid the guy a little extra and got him to play 16 and 17 which were out of sight of the clubhouse while I caddied for him.  I will never forget that round....unlike the name of the course.  I don't speak Bengali and he didn't speak English, he also didn't know that I couldn't hit my 7 iron 190 like he was asking me too.


Found it.

http://bhatiarygolfclub.com/
« Last Edit: February 14, 2011, 07:00:28 PM by Simon Holt »
2011 highlights- Royal Aberdeen, Loch Lomond, Moray Old, NGLA (always a pleasure), Muirfield Village, Saucon Valley, watching the new holes coming along at The Renaissance Club.

Pete_Pittock

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How about Coober Peedy, Australia?

Garland Bayley

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tyler,

DS would tell you that you haven't lived until you have played the Reverse Jans National event.
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

Michael Wharton-Palmer

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Monut Kenya Safari Club in obvioulsy Kenya, spectacular place, high living at ts finest..what a serene palce...certainly in my top ten places on the planet.

James Bennett

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How about Coober Peedy, Australia?

Pete

my mom played at Woomera (and old rocket launching site) just down the road a few hours from Coober Pedy.  The landscape is quite bizzare, with the occasional paddy-melon intervening between the tee and the scrape.  I have never aspired to visit.

I think Coober Pedy had a peculiar arrangement with the Links Trust (perhaps in the past, don't know) - something like an ability to play on course number 5 in the winter!

For bizarre/random/desolate, I was thinking of Albert Park in Melbourne.........

:)

James B
Bob; its impossible to explain some of the clutter that gets recalled from the attic between my ears. .  (SL Solow)

Ian Andrew

Himalayan Golf Course has to be the ultimate

http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2009-03/himalayas


Jason Topp

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I once won $85 of meat in a tournament at this course

http://5by80golf.com/memberships

As I recall, it had 3 par threes and six holes of approximately 450 yards length - half labelled par fives and half labelled par fours.  The course is at the highest point in Iowa and the wind howls.

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