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George Freeman

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #25 on: March 14, 2012, 11:36:50 PM »
George,

We went to Hawaii on our "last fling" before our first was born.  We spent two days over on Lana'i at the Koele Lodge, which we loved.  I played both courses, Koele and Manale Bay.   Nicklaus' Manele was excellent and on a stunning cliff side location.  It beat me up, no surprise, but there were definite challenges in approach and architecture. The few comments I've seen here for this relatively remote course have been positive.  Is that weak?  Excellent course with tough challenging features in a drop dead gorgeous location?  Take the day trip, maybe see some whales on the way.

Dave

Thanks for the info Dave!
Mayhugh is my hero!!

"I love creating great golf courses.  I love shaping earth...it's a canvas." - Donald J. Trump

Sam Morrow

Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #26 on: March 15, 2012, 01:08:30 AM »
All courses I've never played before,

In June around 5th Major (trip still TBD)
Patriot
Dismal River
Prairie Club
Wildhorse
Bayside
Awarii Dunes
Sand Hills

Around Dixie Cup in October
Rivermont
Atlanta Athletic
Standard Club
Peachtree
Cuscowilla
Augusta
Palmetto
Aiken
Harbour Town
Chechessee
Secession
Long Cove

« Last Edit: March 15, 2012, 01:16:36 AM by Sam Morrow »

Jeff Taylor

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #27 on: March 15, 2012, 01:51:56 PM »
Piping Rock
Sleepy Hollow
Friars Head
Bethpage Black
Pine Valley

PCCraig

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #28 on: March 15, 2012, 02:15:29 PM »
And if I can find just a few more days off work...

You work? And have a vacation schedule like that? :o What do you do for a living??  :)
H.P.S.

PCCraig

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #29 on: March 15, 2012, 02:20:22 PM »
I'm heading to Pinehurst in a few weeks for a weekend of golf and DVR'd Masters viewing. I'm contemplating heading down a day early though to see C&C's work on #2 and Dormie...both of which I've yet to see.

I'm also contemplating a trip to Nova Scotia to see Cabot and the Highland sometime in the late summer/early fall.

H.P.S.

Jud_T

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #30 on: March 15, 2012, 03:34:32 PM »
Southern Indy Tour in 2 weeks with a big hitting 13 year old:

Harrison Hills
French Lick Ross
Quail Crossing
Victoria National
Purgatory
Trophy Club
Brickyard Crossing
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

Ben Sims

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #31 on: March 15, 2012, 03:46:31 PM »
The National Golf Links of America

Jim Colton

Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #32 on: March 15, 2012, 07:50:07 PM »
I don't have a single round planned yet for 2012. This is depressing. Help!!!

Bart Bradley

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #33 on: March 15, 2012, 07:55:00 PM »
I don't have a single round planned yet for 2012. This is depressing. Help!!!

Jim:

Please accept my invitation to come and visit either of my home courses.

You have been so kind to offer the same to many on this board.

You have an open invitation. 

Bart

Howard Riefs

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #34 on: March 15, 2012, 07:59:59 PM »
December:
Streamsong Red Course
Streamsong Blue Course*


* Not necessarily in this order

"Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: Taking long walks and hitting things with a stick."  ~P.J. O'Rourke

Tim Martin

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #35 on: March 15, 2012, 08:01:52 PM »
I don't have a single round planned yet for 2012. This is depressing. Help!!!

Jim:

Please accept my invitation to come and visit either of my home courses.

You have been so kind to offer the same to many on this board.

You have an open invitation. 

Bart

Just another reason why this site rocks!

David Kelly

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #36 on: March 15, 2012, 08:38:32 PM »
New to me in 2012 will be:

The Alwoodley
Ganton
Notts
Beau Desert
Woodhall Spa
Royal Birkdale
Hunstanton
Lindrick
Cavendish
Royal West Norfolk

and whatever else comes up in the course of the year.
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent." - Judge Holden, Blood Meridian.

PThomas

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #37 on: March 15, 2012, 09:30:13 PM »
December:
Streamsong Red Course
Streamsong Blue Course*


* Not necessarily in this order



well said Howard :D
199 played, only Augusta National left to play!

Jud_T

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #38 on: March 15, 2012, 09:30:38 PM »
Jim,

3 words:

Kingsley- two hundred
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

Jim Colton

Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #39 on: March 15, 2012, 09:45:23 PM »
I don't have a single round planned yet for 2012. This is depressing. Help!!!

Jim:

Please accept my invitation to come and visit either of my home courses.

You have been so kind to offer the same to many on this board.

You have an open invitation. 

Bart

Thanks Bart. I'm sure we'll tee it up somewhere in 2012. I'll get my fair share of golf in this year, just not exactly sure where yet.

Ryan Admussen

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #40 on: March 15, 2012, 10:01:05 PM »
New courses confirmed so far...

April
Old course
Jubilee
Royal Dornoch
Castle Stuart
Renaissance
North Berwick
Royal Liverpool
Formby
Cavendish

May
Kingsley
Lost Dunes
Black Sheep

June
Marine Drive

November
Bandon Preserve

December
Steamsong hopefully

Tim Bert

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #41 on: March 15, 2012, 10:39:02 PM »
I have plans to play the following courses this year:

Kingsley Club
Vanderbilt Legends North

It's going to be a glorious golfing year even if no others get added to the list.

David Harshbarger

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #42 on: March 16, 2012, 10:27:31 AM »
Boy, there's a bunch of great golf vacations on these lists. 

Brian, you should let the Nebraska and Colorado Tourism Boards know you are crossing the pond solely to visit their wonderful golf. 

David, your England tour also looks fantastic.  Is the food better there than what Brian will find?

Jud, I think your tour of Southern Indiana is the trip I most wish I was taking with my not-quite-so-big-hitting 10 year old.  Maybe I can squeeze a few days of travel golf in here in Central NY.  Leatherstocking....Seven Oaks....Teguega....hmm.



The trouble with modern equipment and distance—and I don't see anyone pointing this out—is that it robs from the player's experience. - Mickey Wright

Shane Wright

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #43 on: March 16, 2012, 10:31:41 AM »
I don't have a single round planned yet for 2012. This is depressing. Help!!!

Jump on an hour flight to Minnesota, we will do it Gorsemen style.  50, 100, 200 holes in a day, we don't care.  Plenty of great stuff you NEED to see here.


Mark Chaplin

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #44 on: March 16, 2012, 12:07:56 PM »
I've retired from travel for a couple of years what with the B&B and the Olympics, so my golf will be restricted to Deal, Sandwich and the odd Swinley, New Zealand, Hankley and Walton Heath invite. So even "retirement" is happy days!!
Cave Nil Vino

Ron Csigo

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #45 on: March 16, 2012, 12:30:30 PM »
I will be visiting the following regions for golf this year:

Jupitor, Florida
Kona, Hawaii
Chicago, Illinois
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Deal, England
Prestwick & Machrihanish, Scotland
Boston, Massachusetts
Playing and Admiring the Great Golf Courses of the World.

Bill Seitz

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #46 on: March 16, 2012, 12:40:04 PM »
Kingsley, hopefully a lot.  And wherever else in Chicago anyone wants to play.  May also try to play somewhere in Anchorage if I get up there to visit my brother this year. 

Matthew Petersen

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #47 on: March 16, 2012, 01:09:07 PM »
New:

Pasatiempo
Ritz Carlton Dove Mountain
La Cumbre
Marin CC
Sequoyah


Matt, good luck on those greens at Dove Mountain, I found them to be diabolical.

I'll be interested in what Marin Golf Club is like these days.  I caddied there on opening day more years ago that I'd like to talk about!

La Cumbre gets a rap, especially from Tommy, but I love the place, played golf there for UCSB.   Really good greens and the best par 3 in Southern California.   (He said confidently)   # 13.   I hope you don't have to play the (literally) crappy alternate island green on that hole.

Bill,

I genuinely didn't think the Dove Mountain greens were so bad. They are wild, for sure, and probably right on the edge of being over-the-top for the pros given (a) the speeds they keep them at and (b) how close to some of the false edges they cut the holes, but when I have played there I find them perfectly playable. Certainly they have massive and wild contours, but the greens are huge so usually only a pretty bad miss ends up with a true roller coaster of a putt. Even when you do have to go over several bumps, the putts are still playable, or so I found. I genuinely love that course and the greens are probably the biggest reason why. Tons of fun without crossing into frustration.

Of course, if I play there 5 more times maybe that opinion will change.

Matthew Petersen

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #48 on: March 16, 2012, 01:15:13 PM »
George,

We went to Hawaii on our "last fling" before our first was born.  We spent two days over on Lana'i at the Koele Lodge, which we loved.  I played both courses, Koele and Manale Bay.   Nicklaus' Manele was excellent and on a stunning cliff side location.  It beat me up, no surprise, but there were definite challenges in approach and architecture. The few comments I've seen here for this relatively remote course have been positive.  Is that weak?  Excellent course with tough challenging features in a drop dead gorgeous location?  Take the day trip, maybe see some whales on the way.

Dave

George,

Hope you enjoy Hawaii. I will second Dave's recommendation of the golf on Lanai. Even if you don't stay there, I found the day trip to be a pretty good value (considering) and a wonderful and unique way to spend a day.

If you are staying on Maui, the deal includes a boat trip to lanai in the morning, transportation up to the mountainous Lanai City where the Lodge is. You play the Norman-designed Experience at Koele up there in the morning. That layout isn't really much special but it does have some fun memorable holes. Then you can have lunch, they'll take you back down to the coast where you play the Nicklaus designed Experience at Manele in the afternoon. An absolutely gorgeous golf course with a couple wonderful clifftop holes. Tough when the wind blows, I would imagine, but not terrible if it's not howling. Then you get back on the boat and are usually back on Maui by sunset. Really a great day. Lanai is a fascinating and unique place, as well.

Kapalua Plantation is certainly worthwhile if on Maui, as well.

If on Maui and you can't make it to Lanai, the other courses I would recommend would be Wailea Gold and either of the Makena courses.
Thanks for the info Dave!

jonathan_becker

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Re: What Course are you Planning to Play this Year - 2012 Edition
« Reply #49 on: March 16, 2012, 03:40:01 PM »
Jupiter, FL
Deer Lodge, MT
Philadelphia/South Jersey
Long Island, NY
various Ohio spots