"13 Golf Places That Look Really Cool From Outer Space."

[BShannon]

On GolfDigest.com today.

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/2014-05/13-golf-places-photos#slide=1

Listed:
ANGC
Cape Kidnappers
Cypress
Fulbari Resort (Nepal)
TOC
Old Head
Pebble
Pine Valley
Sand Hills
Sawgrass
Shadow Creek
Tiger's Jupiter backyard
Whistling Straits

What else should have made the list?

[Peter Pallotta]

Not that it matters much, but this conceit is suspiciously close to an idea I raised on here about 2 months ago - i.e. in mocking the magazines' mania for rankings and lists, I proposed starting a thread called "Top 10 Courses from the Perspective of Astronauts on Acid".  As I say, I was trying to think of the dumbest...well...nevermind.

Peter

[JLahrman]

in mocking the magazines' mania for rankings and lists

Don't you mean "views and clicks"?

[Michael Felton]

Kerry Packer's place in Australia (Ellerston is it?) looks pretty spectacular on google earth, although the resolution is not good.

[Tim_Weiman]

Not sure a few of these courses really deserve to be on this list, including Augusta, Pine Valley, Sand Hills or TOC.

Old Head does, however. Should be #1.

[Bill_McBride]

Interesting, the Sand Hills routing looks a lot like Ballyneal.  I guess that's logical when you have virtually unlimited acres to lay out a course. 

[John Foley]

How about the contiguous Sebonack-National-Shinnecock-Southampton?

[Tony_Muldoon]

Not sure a few of these courses really deserve to be on this list, including Augusta, Pine Valley, Sand Hills or TOC.

Old Head does, however. Should be #1.

The BBC has a long running series called Coast, where they look for interesting nuggets about a particular bit of coastline. By the third (or so) series they had had to include the Republic of Ireland to keep going and they found a real life US Astronaut to talk about how he loved to play Old Head, a course he could see from space.  As I watched him being interviewed on the course, I was sure I could see jumping sharks in the background.

[Thomas Dai]

Not sure a few of these courses really deserve to be on this list, including Augusta, Pine Valley, Sand Hills or TOC.
Old Head does, however. Should be #1.

The BBC has a long running series called Coast, where they look for interesting nuggets about a particular bit of coastline. By the third (or so) series they had had to include the Republic of Ireland to keep going and they found a real life US Astronaut to talk about how he loved to play Old Head, a course he could see from space.  As I watched him being interviewed on the course, I was sure I could see jumping sharks in the background.

TV programme 'Coast' - Askernish was profiled in another episode.

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