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Rich Goodale

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Top ten NLE courses you have played
« on: May 10, 2014, 01:59:49 PM »
My List(s):

Truly NLE

Tropicana (Las Vegas)
Chimney Rock (Napa)
Fort McNair (Washington, DC)
Princes (Gleneagles)
Anadarko (Houston)

NLE in spirit

The Struie (Dornoch)
Ballyliffin (Old)
Turnberry (Arran)
Gasparilla (Boca Grande)
Pebble Beach (I miss the old 5th, and so many other things....)
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Jud_T

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2014, 02:42:14 PM »
Bay of Dreams
Desert Inn
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Pete_Pittock

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2014, 03:08:11 PM »
Beechtree
Castle Harbour
Highpointe (added after someone else mentioned it)
The Pit (added after someone else mentioned it)

Back in the mid seventies I played a course in the Pinehurst complex which is either NLE or extensively redone. It had a sizeable lake on the back nine and I made my first eagle with a hole-out pitch through 20 yards of fairly densely planted pine trees.

The only other NLEs I have played are in Oregon and SW Washington -Hoyt Park P&P, West Hills, Pleasant Valley, Neahkahnie, Orenco Woods, Vancouver Lake Par 3 Challenge (in the Confidential Guide as a 1 or 0). Two soon to be NLEs scheduled for play this year - Green Mountain in Washington, and Portland's Colwood (Macan) which closes at the end of the month.

Geez,
that means that my first eagle and only hole in one are/will be NLEd
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Jon Wiggett

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2014, 03:09:45 PM »
Of the truly NLEs

Princes (Gleneagles)
West Bowling (Bradford)
Normanton GC (Wakefield)
Buergenstock G&CC (Switzerland)

NLE in Spirit

The Struie (Dornoch)
Turnberry (Arran)
Moortown (Leeds)
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Steve Lang

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2014, 03:25:08 PM »
 8)  HighPointe in Acme, MI (DOAK)  now growing corn
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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2014, 03:35:57 PM »
Beechtree (Doak)

Tamiment (RTJ)

Ashbourne (Park,Jr?)

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Pete Balzer

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2014, 03:55:02 PM »
Green Gables CC
Gleneagles- Co Spring
Kings Deer

All Colorado courses
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A.G._Crockett

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2014, 04:09:56 PM »
Ocean Harbour at Sunset Beach, NC.  A personal favorite because of what it could have been; nine holes on the Calabash River, nine holes on the Intercoastal Waterway.  It was never, ever in good shape but it was ALWAYS beautiful.  A missed opportunity, then and now.
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Bill_McBride

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2014, 04:16:46 PM »
The Trop and the Desert Inn, two solid old courses in Vegas.  The pit bosses could comp you.  
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Mike Nuzzo

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2014, 04:41:59 PM »
Beechtree, MD
Old Orchard, Sugarland, TX
Classic 3, Houston, TX - because I made it NLE
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astavrides

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2014, 05:46:04 PM »
I see some courses in this thread that I didn't know were NLE. Does anyone know where I can find a list (if one exists ) of courses that have closed in, say, the last 5 years? Has there been a thread like that on GCA?
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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2014, 05:51:49 PM »
Add Belle Terre (Rees Jones)  in Myrtle Beach to my list.
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Pete_Pittock

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2014, 05:58:03 PM »
Quote from: Steve_ Shaffer on May 10, 2014, 05:51:49 PM
Add Belle Terre (Rees Jones)  in Myrtle Beach to my list.

I think Myrtle Beachcourses will head the list, but maybe not with this crowd. I haven't been there in Jack Benny's supposed lifetime
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Brad Wilbur

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2014, 06:26:10 PM »
I would add to the Las Vegas list by including The Dunes.  In it's place are a plethora of hotel rooms and casino space.
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Tom Walsh

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #14 on: May 10, 2014, 06:31:03 PM »
My NLE that you've almost certainly never heard of-

all St. Louis, Missouri

Pebble Creek
Arrowhead
Lakewood
Crystal Lake
Bahnfyre (aka Southmoor)
West Par

Mostly undistinguished 9 holers I played as a kid with the exception of Crystal Lake where I played high school district qualifiers. Good memories.
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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2014, 06:34:43 PM »
Add Blue Heron Pines (Smyers course)  near Atlantic City, NJ  to my list.
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Pat Burke

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2014, 11:14:31 PM »
Grenelefe    Florida
Bamm Hollow  NJ   (red and white...blue not a loss)
Quail Ranch   Moreno Valley  CA
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Sam Morrow

Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2014, 11:40:42 PM »
Quote from: Rich Goodale on May 10, 2014, 01:59:49 PM
My List(s):

Truly NLE

Tropicana (Las Vegas)
Chimney Rock (Napa)
Fort McNair (Washington, DC)
Princes (Gleneagles)
Anadarko (Houston)

NLE in spirit

The Struie (Dornoch)
Ballyliffin (Old)
Turnberry (Arran)
Gasparilla (Boca Grande)
Pebble Beach (I miss the old 5th, and so many other things....)


Where was the Anadarko course? I'm not familiar with it.

My best list,

Waterwood National
Pecan Valley
Blaketree National
Treeline
Sugar Hill
Inwood Forest
Traditions-OKC
Cypresswood- Creek
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Tyler Kearns

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #18 on: May 11, 2014, 12:58:49 AM »
Sutton Bay

TK
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Jim Nugent

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2014, 02:07:22 AM »
Quote from: Tom Walsh on May 10, 2014, 06:31:03 PM
My NLE that you've almost certainly never heard of-

all St. Louis, Missouri

Pebble Creek
Arrowhead
Lakewood
Crystal Lake
Bahnfyre (aka Southmoor)
West Par

Mostly undistinguished 9 holers I played as a kid with the exception of Crystal Lake where I played high school district qualifiers. Good memories.

Tom, I played Crystal Lake and Southmoor.  CL was much better. 

Where were Lakewood, Arrowhead and West Par? 
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Tony_Muldoon

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #20 on: May 11, 2014, 02:34:42 AM »
In spirt

The Old Course



(Thank you Rich ;))
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Sean_A

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #21 on: May 11, 2014, 03:12:46 AM »
Jeepers, I can only think of one course I really liked, the 9 hole Annapolis course.  I am not sure I know of any in spirit courses, but TOC may be one of we count losing the fairway left of the Prinicpal's Nose and the narrowing of the 17th :'(  There are lots of courses which are dead in spirit, but I never played them when they zoomed.  Princes and Blackwell probably head that list.  I suspect Sandy Lodge and Worcester are nothing to what they could be.

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Matt Bielawa

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #22 on: May 11, 2014, 07:53:12 AM »
Can only think of two that aren't open today:

The Pit
Melrose Course at Daufuskie Island
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Duncan Cheslett

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #23 on: May 11, 2014, 09:59:31 AM »
Truly NLE

Mirrlees GC - Hazel Grove, Cheshire
Bruntwood Park Pitch & Putt - Cheadle, Cheshire


NLE in spirit

Hazel Grove GC - Cheshire


Parochial?  Moi?
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Niall C

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Re: Top ten NLE courses you have played
« Reply #24 on: May 11, 2014, 10:01:24 AM »
In spirit

The Dukes, St Andrews
Both courses at St Andrews Bay
Renaissance*
Bothwell Castle

*perhaps harsh in saying its NLE in spirit since the original architect was involved in reworking it, and its probably a better course  now, but with 3 new holes and a new routing its not the original course.

Interesting that most of the above are modern courses.

Niall
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