Wish List

[Steve Kline]

Jamie...

Are you this level of player?  If so, provide some details so we can all follow along.

No, I'm probably just delusional.    Obviously all those would be awesome, but I doubt it will ever happen, no way. I've barely played in "competition" on Saturday mornings with the guys here recently.

Steve, you are correct indeed, I could win the Mid-Am or something and get in. I could do that in 2018 and check off (at least) 2, with the Masters and the US Open at Pebble; who knows where the Aussie Open will be that year....yeah, probably not going to happen.

I made that post just for fun really, though the courses can stay the same. Even though I've played Pebble and TOC, I'd NEVER pass up the chance to play either one of them again.

Sadly, winning the Md-Am does not get you into the US Open last I checked. Only an exemption from local qualifying. I thik that is really lame on the USGA's part.

[Jamie Van Gisbergen]

Jamie...

Are you this level of player?  If so, provide some details so we can all follow along.

No, I'm probably just delusional.    Obviously all those would be awesome, but I doubt it will ever happen, no way. I've barely played in "competition" on Saturday mornings with the guys here recently.

Steve, you are correct indeed, I could win the Mid-Am or something and get in. I could do that in 2018 and check off (at least) 2, with the Masters and the US Open at Pebble; who knows where the Aussie Open will be that year....yeah, probably not going to happen.

I made that post just for fun really, though the courses can stay the same. Even though I've played Pebble and TOC, I'd NEVER pass up the chance to play either one of them again.

Sadly, winning the Md-Am does not get you into the US Open last I checked. Only an exemption from local qualifying. I thik that is really lame on the USGA's part.

Steve you are indeed correct, you can obviously tell how much research I'd done.

[Matthew Rose]

Locally:
Cherry Hills, Denver CC, Castle Pines, Colorado GC, The Sanctuary, Ballyneal

Nationally:
Augusta, Pine Valley, Cypress Point, Pebble Beach, Spyglass, TPC Sawgrass, Merion, Winged Foot, Oakmont, Prairie Dunes, Sand Hills, Plainfield, Aronimink, Congressional, Canterbury, Westchester, Medinah, Butler Nat'l, Milwaukee CC, Blackwolf Run, Whistling Straits and about a billion others

Internationally:
Old Course, Carnoustie, Turnberry, Sandwich, Lytham, County Down, North Berwick, Royal Melb, Kingston Heath

[Doug Siebert]

Am I the only one who has Painswick on my list, as a result of it being discussed and photographed endlessly on this site a few years back?

[Frank M]

1. Eastward Ho! (playing in September   )
2. Prairie Dunes
3. Fishers Island
4. Sand Hills
5. NGLA

Would love to get to these, but have no real time frame nor am I expecting to gain access in the near future.  

[Jim Colton]

I counted 16 courses mentioned here that are in the Ben Cox raffle, so that begs the obvious question - what are you waiting for?

Recently, a friend asked a group of us to rank our individual bucket lists out to 25-50. It was an interesting exercise in that it revealed a lot about each golfer's tastes and required one to make some tough choices.

I wonder if  anybody else has a unique wish list like Tim's quest tO play everything in CT? One cool one would be to try to play all of the courses mentioned in True Links.

[Scott Warren]

Like a few others, my dreams revolve more about returning to places I have already been or teeing it up again with friends on the other side of the globe.

I'd really like to play golf in as many countries as possible. Currently I'm on 11.

[Shane Wright]

I counted 16 courses mentioned here that are in the Ben Cox raffle, so that begs the obvious question - what are you waiting for?

Recently, a friend asked a group of us to rank our individual bucket lists out to 25-50. It was an interesting exercise in that it revealed a lot about each golfer's tastes and required one to make some tough choices.

I wonder if  anybody else has a unique wish list like Tim's quest tO play everything in CT? One cool one would be to try to play all of the courses mentioned in True Links.

The Gorsemen will absolutely be playing every single course in True Links.  It was a list that our fallen brother had been working on for years and was eagerly anticipating the True Links book coming out.  We are adding 5 to the list in August.

[Shane Wright]

I counted 16 courses mentioned here that are in the Ben Cox raffle, so that begs the obvious question - what are you waiting for?

Amen!  I know some of you are club junkies, get rid of the hoarding, sell them on Ebay, and put your money in the raffle.  You can't lose.....win a raffle item, or deduct the donation....and regardless, you are helping an incredible cause.

[JNC Lyon]

Ballyneal, Dismal River, Wild Horse, Sand Hills.  For now.

[Jud_T]

The two at the top currently are Ballyneal and Old Mac, both of which are scheduled to be scratched off next month!  After that probably Crystal Downs, NGLA, North Berwick, Westward Ho!, Barnbougle/Lost Farm and Sand Hills, only one of which seems realistic in the not too distant future (at least until I win the Ben Cox raffle!)....

[Tim Gavrich]

Someday, I think I'd like to have played every golf course in the great state of Connecticut.  Other than that, any course that would have me would be fine.

Tim-Here`s my Connecticut Dozen to see. Let me know what you would add or discard.

1. Yale
2. CC of Fairfield
3. CC of Waterbury
4. Brooklawn
4. Tamarack
5. Wee Burn
6. Stanwich
7. CC of Farmington
8. New Haven CC
9. Greenwich CC
10. Round Hill
11. Ridgewood
12. Woodway

Tim--
I have only played Yale, Waterbury, and Farmington from that list.  I have heard enough good things about the rest that I have nothing really to argue with.  I may play in the US Am qualifier at New Haven in a month.  But yeah, all of those are on my wish list, along with places like Silver Spring, Bull's Bridge, both Lake of Isles courses, and others.

Two other courses for consideration on the list: Hartford GC and Shuttle Meadow CC.  I caddy at Hartford and think it's a very, very good members'-type golf course and I played Shuttle Meadow for the first time a couple weeks ago and would put it just below Farmington in my estimation, and about equal with Hartford.

--Tim

[Garland Bayley]

Ballyneal, Dismal River, Wild Horse, Sand Hills.  For now.

I give up. Which of these are classic courses?
 

[Jamie Van Gisbergen]

Ballyneal, Dismal River, Wild Horse, Sand Hills.  For now.

I give up. Which of these are classic courses?
 

I also find it interesting that the only 4 courses he "wants" to play are all in the same geographic area and are all generally the same style of design. You'd think that one might try and broaden his horizons a bit.

[Scott Warren]

Jamie, Garland: he is playing them this weekend, hence the "for now".

[Jamie Van Gisbergen]

Jamie, Garland: he is playing them this weekend, hence the "for now".

Oh I see...to hell with him then.

[Mark McKeever]

In no particular order...

NGLA
Garden City
Maidstone
Shinnecock
Myopia

[Tim Martin]

In no particular order...

NGLA
Garden City
Maidstone
Shinnecock
Myopia

Mark-Take Myopia out in the short term and you could knock out the others with an overnight. Oh yeah I forgot about about one minor detail-access.

[Dan Byrnes]

Places I would like to play:

Eastward Ho
Oyster Harbors
Fenway
Hollywood in NJ
Only real big name place that I want to play is Cypress and maybe Merion.