The Golf Genie Appears and Grants You Three Rounds...

[Brent Hutto]

1. I would love to play at Augusta National. Who wouldn't. Having played a course before while watching a major championship being contested on it is always a thrill. At Augusta I could play it once and repeat that experience every year for the rest of my life.

2. Merion. And not just because the US Open is coming there. It's been a course I've thought would be great to play for almost as long as I've cared about the fact that some courses are greater than others.

3. The Old Course. No reason not to have played there other than havnig been too busy with other plans. I'll play there one day, I'm sure. Hope it qualifies for this particular quiz.

[Jud_T]

1.  Lido
2.  El Boqueron
3.  Wicked Pony

[John Handley]

1. Augusta National - I've been fortunate to walk the grounds a few times during The Masters and I think it would be a real treat to actually play the course.

2. Pine Valley - The beauty of the place and the difficulty of the course would be a fun test of golf.

3. Shinnecock - I guess for the rare opportunity to experience a great course in a beautiful area.

Honorable Mention: Royal Dornoch - I was supposed to play on my last trip to Scotland but missed out due to delay at O'Hare (I hate that place).

Fortunate to have played many of the great courses except for the three above.  My top three played: Cypress Point, Royal County Down, Muirfield,.

[Wayne Wiggins, Jr.]

the obvious:

Pine Valley
Cypress Point
Augusta National

if the genie was unable to confirm access to these, i'd love to play:

National Golf Links
Chicago GC
Swinley Forest

[Mark Chaplin]

Royal County Down
Monfontaine
ANGC

Although missing lunch and the wine cellar would be a tragedy at the second two.

[astavrides]

Cypress Point
Riviera
San Francisco Golf Club

[Tim Leahy]

Cypress Point
Riviera
San Francisco Golf Club

I am with you on two out of three, because I have played Riviera.

Cypress
Augusta National
SFCC

and if I could get the genie to allow a cart I would play all the Bandon courses with a cart!

[Scott Weersing]

This is a hard one:

No particular order

Cypress Point
Shinnecock
Valley Club

These are ones that I would want to play and would be ok not telling anyone about it. It would be hard to choose one of the others and not see the clubhouse and history such as AGNC, Oakmont, NGLA.

[Brian Freeman]

Augusta
Pine Valley
Royal County Down

[Dan Smoot]

Cypress Point
The Old Course
NGLA


How can you leave it at three, very difficult.

[Joe_Tucholski]

Monfortaine
Hirono
ANGC

[Chris Cupit]

Cypress Point
Chicago Golf Club
Sand Hills

[Wade Schueneman]

1. Cypress Point
2. Pine Valley
3. ANGC

Yup, extremely boring choices but they're probably the 3 best courses I have yet to play and three that have an allure beyond the quality of the golf...

Agreed.  My only slightly less obvious alternate list is

Shinnecock Hilss
Sand Hills
Oakmont

[Tom ORourke]

Augusta National
Shinnecock
Royal County Down