I'll call this my "all-overrated" list. I can't say these are the worst golf courses I have played, but they are courses which in my mind are over hyped by the general golfing public.
1. Fiddler's Elbow River Course- Just awful. Routing is horrible, course goes near the interstate. A way overhyped private club which is awful.
2. Reunion Resort Watson- Framing mounds, 20 fairway bunkers per hole, terrible greens. This past year they hosted Big East and the complaints were almost universal.
3. TPC Tampa Bay- Every hole feels the exact same off the tee.
4. Makray Memorial GC, Barrington, IL- Just terrible.
5. Bull Valley GC, McHenry, IL- Tricked up, feels like a fantasy course on Tiger Woods
6. ACE Club, Lafayette Hill, PA- Unwalkable, even though all the holes are relatively close together there are still inexplicably 3-4 walks between holes which are 300+ yards
7. Plymouth CC, Ambler, PA- I have no clue what Flynn was thinking when he designed this course. 2 is one of the most ridiculous holes I have ever played.
8. Newport National, Newport, RI- Well, actually, any Arthur Hills course for that matter. 95% of the ones I have seen are an abomination.
9. Oak Grove, McHenry, IL- Hole 6 requires a shot that 1 in 100 golfers are skilled enough to play around or over a tree in the middle of the fairway. Hole 11, well, just google map it. You'll know which one I'm talking about.
Couldn't get to 10. I'm fortunate in that I don't really play too many awful golf courses. Could have thrown Kemper Lakes in there, opted not to.