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Lyndell Young

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #100 on: November 06, 2015, 09:33:31 PM »
Several on my recent visit to MI and WI ,1-Crystal Downs, 2- Erin Hills (scored my first Albatross on #14) 3- Lawsonia
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Jesse Jones

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #101 on: November 07, 2015, 06:53:23 PM »
Pasatiempo.
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ward peyronnin

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #102 on: November 07, 2015, 11:11:55 PM »
The most pleasant surprise was Reddish Vale in Manchester and I thank Duncan Cheslitt for his generous hospitality
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Sean_A

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #103 on: November 08, 2015, 09:32:16 AM »
Quote from: ward peyronnin on November 07, 2015, 11:11:55 PM
The most pleasant surprise was Reddish Vale in Manchester and I thank Duncan Cheslitt for his generous hospitality


One will rarely go too badly wrong by playing a Dr Mac or HS Colt course.  Reddish Vale remains very high on my list of favourites.


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David Jones

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #104 on: November 08, 2015, 10:28:12 AM »
Another vote for Friar's Head.  The kind of course where you just want to go straight back and play it again.  And that was just the par 3 warm up course.  On the same trip though I played the West at Winged Foot and it was FAR more enjoyable than I had expected.  More playable than I thought it would be, great atmosphere - all round wonderful.
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Dan Herrmann

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #105 on: November 08, 2015, 02:59:19 PM »
Berkshire in Reading, PA - Wille Park/Donald Ross.
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JReese

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #106 on: November 08, 2015, 04:27:49 PM »
Best - Beverly CC
Most Fun - Kankakee Elks
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Chris Mavros

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #107 on: November 08, 2015, 07:19:53 PM »
CC of Scranton.  It was also the most fun. 
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Joe Bausch

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #108 on: November 08, 2015, 07:49:52 PM »
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Ross Harmon

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #109 on: November 08, 2015, 09:05:08 PM »
Pinehurst #2 for me... honorable mentions go to Pasatiempo, Pebble Beach and Tobacco Road
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Jon Heise

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #110 on: November 08, 2015, 09:45:48 PM »
Probably Belvedere this year.  A couple nice new ones, but a big year planned for 2016.
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I still like Greywalls better.

Ronald Montesano

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #111 on: November 08, 2015, 11:08:50 PM »
So far, it's a tie: Pasatiempo and Bandon Preserve.
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Rick Emerson

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #112 on: November 09, 2015, 12:41:31 AM »
My Favorite this year was Shadow Dunes at Mission Hills in Haikou. It is so much fun and is the antithesis of normal Chinese Golf. 6400 yards and Par 70. It is manufactured sand dunes built on Lava Rock. It has crazy rolling fairways and huge severely sloped greens. The greens average over 11,000 square feet and there is even a crazy 50,000 sugar foot triple green. Putting and around the green shots were tons of fun. There is a wide variety of holes with some drivable and some well over 400 yards. The terrain is turf (all at fairway height), sandy scrub, and native grass and they even try to keep it firm and fast, which seems to never be done in China. Unfortunately while I was there it rained every day but I am going back to Hainan this Christmas and I plan to make a special trip just to play it in firmer condition. 
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Rob Curtiss

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #113 on: November 09, 2015, 09:26:56 AM »
Myopia Hunt Club, Newport CC, Wannamoisett and Roaring Gap
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Padraig Dooley

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #114 on: November 09, 2015, 11:17:02 AM »
The Cal Club was by far the best course for the first time this year.

In Ireland it was Belvoir Park, very enjoyable.

The Palm Beach Par 3 gets an honourable mention, loved playing it.
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David Wuthrich

Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #115 on: November 09, 2015, 10:33:16 PM »
Fox Chapel
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Ronald Montesano

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #116 on: November 09, 2015, 10:49:08 PM »
I played Sandpiper today and (with the exception of the 18th, which I found to be workable but uninspired) cannot understand how folks on this board of discussion call it a wasted opportunity, a what might have been. Any gripes are picayune in my book and the stretch from 10-13 is as unexpected and attractive a stretch of seaside golf as I've seen on this tour. The greens at Sandpiper rely on the tilt, not on the contouring, for their guile. In an era when the retail golfer demands a putting surface equal in roils and tumble to the ocean waves, simple and challenging greens like these are refreshing.
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~Soaring Eagles
~Bonavista
~Indian Hills
~Maybe some more!!

Steve Green

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #117 on: November 10, 2015, 12:55:36 AM »
Tough to keep up with many on this list.  No passport required for my list.


Beverly Country Club - wonderful layout, kicked my butt all day.


Old Elm - great vibe and a blast to play.
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Andrew Bertram

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #118 on: November 10, 2015, 01:23:50 AM »
22 rounds in 20 days in the UK and Ireland with 6 new courses played


New courses played Panmure, Castle Stuart, Trump Scotland, The Island, West Sussex and Royal Ashdown Forest


Panmure was a lot of fun, although that is what I expected


Castle Stuart we played on a dead calm day, water was not moving at all, visually stunning


Trump Scotland was played in warm breezy conditions, mostly very good, I found 3 - 4 greens unfair in the way they deflected balls off the green from a well played shot


The Island - a surprise packet, all of my Club Members had a blast and enjoyed it a lot


West Sussex - I had a wonderfully warm evening accompanied by the chairman of greens and just loved it


Royal Ashdown Forest - wow, I was warned at the start that by the end of the day I would be wishing for bunkers, it never got to that but I simply loved the way the heather was placed so well to enhance the course
(I played as a single behind some foursomes matches and struggled to keep up!!)


My favourite out of those was West Sussex, I could play there every day with ease
   
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Jay Carstens

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #119 on: November 10, 2015, 09:31:41 AM »
Easy one for me.  Dismal River (Doak).  A really fun addition to Nebraska golf. 
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Ed Brzezowski

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #120 on: November 10, 2015, 09:54:36 AM »
Bayonne on a beautiful spring afternoon. Hard to believe you are not at The Island club or another Irish links. But then starting the ball off the WTC ends that mental journey. Just a great facility, hope i get invited back.
 
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Frank Kim

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #121 on: November 10, 2015, 10:11:38 AM »
The highlight of my year was playing Banff Springs with Tom Doak.  Banff and Chileno Bay were my favorites courses this year.  Others I liked were Roaring Gap, Mimosa Hills, and Baltimore CC Five Farms. 
The most pleasant surprise was the University of Michigan course.  I played 9 holes at the Ann Arbor GCA outing in July in cold, at times heavy rain and still loved it.  My friends and I preferred it over Barton Hills CC.
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Joel_Stewart

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #122 on: November 10, 2015, 02:25:56 PM »
Lakeside golf club in Burbank for me.  A 1920's Max Baer course with lots of interior movement and fast greens. 


The membership is celebrity packed with a fraternity attitude.  Great fun.
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Wayne Wiggins, Jr.

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #123 on: November 10, 2015, 02:49:43 PM »
Played in No. Jersey for the first time.  Ridgewood, Somerset Hills, and Hollywood were all terrific with one of the first two probably taking the prize for "best" new course.  But the one that keeps jumping out as the one i'd like to go back to play was Essex County CC. 
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Anton

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Re: Best course you played for the first time this year?
« Reply #124 on: November 10, 2015, 02:53:50 PM »
Best course for the first time was Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, NJ.  Played East & West in a pouring rain but loved every second at that Tillie classic.

Biggest surprise course was Scotch Hall Preserve in Merry Hill, NC.  Very surprised at how much I enjoyed the course despite it being a Palmer design and in a housing community.  My playing partner (pictured below) did add greatly to the enjoyment of the round.   :)
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