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Mark Pearce

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #150 on: January 19, 2012, 07:49:47 AM »
Home: The Northumberland Golf Club (Colt/Braid/Various unwise greens committees, 1914/1919etc.)
Others: Crail Golfing Society (est. 1786)(Balcomie - Old Tom Morris; Craighead - Gil Hanse), Golf House Club (Elie)
In June I will be riding the first three stages of this year's Tour de France route for charity.  630km (394 miles) in three days, with 7800m (25,600 feet) of climbing for the William Wates Memorial Trust (https://rideleloop.org/the-charity/) which supports underprivileged young people.

Chris Roselle

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #151 on: January 19, 2012, 07:51:54 AM »
Llanerch Country Club
Havertown, Pa
Alexander Finlday, 1919

*site of the first PGA Championship (1958 - Dow Finsterwald) conducted at medal play*

Pete Garvey

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #152 on: January 19, 2012, 10:01:56 AM »
My home course:

Idle Hour
Lexington, KY
1924 Ross

Kentucky's only Ross!

Tyler Kearns

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #153 on: January 19, 2012, 10:19:10 AM »
My home course is;

Glendale G & CC
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Stanley Thompson, 1948

TK

Jud_T

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #154 on: January 19, 2012, 10:25:42 AM »
National:

Kingsley Club
Kingsley, MI
Mike DeVries (2001)
« Last Edit: January 26, 2012, 02:04:16 PM by Jud Tigerman »
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

Dave Givnish

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #155 on: January 19, 2012, 10:52:54 AM »


Farmington CC Charlottesville VA - Fred Findlay
« Last Edit: January 16, 2023, 02:06:13 PM by Dave Givnish »

Tom ORourke

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #156 on: January 19, 2012, 11:46:34 AM »
I just spent 20 years at Moorestown Field Club in Moorestown, NJ, built in 1892, current renovation done by Kelly Blake Moran over the past 9 years. I am moving to Aiken, S.C. and have joined Woodside Plantation with 2 courses, one by Bob Cupp and one by Rees Jones. Both are around 25 years old.

Brian Stewart

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #157 on: January 19, 2012, 12:05:36 PM »
Add another one to:
Desert Forest Golf Club
Carefree, AZ
Red Lawrence (1962)

Tim Leahy

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #158 on: January 19, 2012, 03:04:02 PM »
Mather Golf Club in Sacramento, CA is where I play the most. Former AFB course, now a muni, parkland course with a good layout.
I love golf, the fightin irish, and beautiful women depending on the season and availability.

Carl Johnson

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #159 on: January 19, 2012, 03:31:04 PM »
Carolina Golf Club
Charlotte, NC, USA
Ronald Ross, 1929; renovated with three completely new holes by Kris Spence, 2008.

Jim Franklin

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #160 on: January 19, 2012, 04:39:38 PM »
Baltimore Country Club
Timonium MD
AW Tillinghast 1926
Keith Foster 2006?
Mr Hurricane

Jeff Shelman

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #161 on: January 19, 2012, 06:09:47 PM »
Southview Country Club
West St. Paul, Minn.

The club claims it was designed by Langford. But Rick Shefchik's book on Minnesota golf history will say it was designed by Tom Vardon. Either way, it's a fun, parkland course that has been around since 1919. There are too many trees in a few spots, but it has very fun greens and is a wonderful walk.

JNC Lyon

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #162 on: January 19, 2012, 06:16:33 PM »
National:

Dismal River Golf Club
Mullen, NE
First course by Jack Nicklaus, Second course in the works by Tom Doak
"That's why Oscar can't see that!" - Philip E. "Timmy" Thomas

Scott Warren

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #163 on: January 19, 2012, 06:32:47 PM »
You let go of RCP, John?

JNC Lyon

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #164 on: January 19, 2012, 06:38:04 PM »
You let go of RCP, John?

Sadly, I won't be getting overseas much in the next few years.  I'd like to come back to it sometime though, I love Deal!
"That's why Oscar can't see that!" - Philip E. "Timmy" Thomas

Lawrence Largent

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #165 on: January 19, 2012, 07:57:36 PM »
Home Club  Ridgefields Country Club Donald Ross
Non Resident Holston Hills Country Club Donald Ross
National Musgrove Mill Golf Club Arnold Palmer

Mark Saltzman

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #166 on: January 19, 2012, 08:01:09 PM »
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« Last Edit: August 13, 2013, 08:53:37 PM by Mark Saltzman »

Pete_Pittock

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #167 on: January 19, 2012, 08:19:21 PM »
The Reserve Vineyards & Golf Course
Aloha, OR
North Course (Bob Cupp) 1998, less than one bunker a hole, mostly aiming types
South Course (John Fought) 1997, more than 100 bunkers.


Posse membership at Sagebrush, Quilchina, British Columbia, Canada
« Last Edit: July 12, 2013, 11:43:34 PM by Pete_Pittock »

JNC Lyon

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #168 on: January 19, 2012, 08:37:12 PM »
National:

Dismal River Golf Club
Mullen, NE
First course by Jack Nicklaus, Second course in the works by Tom Doak

Congrats, John.

No OHCC? The AW in me is disappointed  ;)

Officially I have no playing privileges there since I'm gainfully employed now.  I still know a member or two there, though.
"That's why Oscar can't see that!" - Philip E. "Timmy" Thomas

Mike Sweeney

Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #169 on: January 19, 2012, 11:21:51 PM »


Randalls Island Golf Center

Randalls Island, NY

Architect: Robert Moses

PS. We are still waiting for The Whitaker Tour to show up!!
« Last Edit: January 19, 2012, 11:25:52 PM by Mike Sweeney »

Dustin Ferrell

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #170 on: January 20, 2012, 10:37:53 AM »
My home course:

Hudson National Golf Club
Croton-On-Hudson, NY
Tom Fazio (1996)

My National Club:

Ballyneal Golf and Hunt
Holyoke, Co
Tom Doak (2006)

Brian,

I spent a weekend at Hudson National a couple years ago and absolutely loved the course and the club as a whole.  What a great experience and great club to call home.  A great challenge on the course, and one of the best meals i've ever eaten at a club.


My club:
Barton Hills CC
Ann Arbor, MI
Donald Ross (1919)

Mark McKeever

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #171 on: January 20, 2012, 10:47:01 AM »
My home course:

Schuylkill Country Club
1921 Willie Park Jr.
1944 Donald Ross
20XX Ron Prichard

If anyone wants to come play it, shoot me a message.  It's got some wonderful greens. 

Mark
Best MGA showers - Bayonne

"Dude, he's a total d***"

Jud_T

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #172 on: January 20, 2012, 10:51:45 AM »


Randalls Island Golf Center

Randalls Island, NY

Architect: Robert Moses

PS. We are still waiting for The Whitaker Tour to show up!!

Mike,

That's hilarious.  That's where I first started hitting balls.  I was taking lessons hitting into a net on 47th & Lex and heading over there to hit at night.  Before Chelsea Pier opened...
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

Mike Tanner

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #173 on: January 20, 2012, 12:37:22 PM »
I'm not a member of a club, but the course where I play most of my rounds is only about 2 miles from my front door:
Red Wing Lake GC; Va. Beach, VA
George Cobb, 1968
Kevin Tucker, 2005

It's a muni and a standard par-72 with 10 par-4s, four 3s and four 5s. It's flat, easily walkable (which I do almost all of the time) and only the ninth hole has housing alongside, but it's set way back behind a belt of trees. That makes for a nice walk-in-the-park atmosphere. The nice mix of doglegs keeps it interesting. Two of the par 3s play over water and both nines finish with par 5s featuring water-guarded greens.

 The redo in 2005 was a mixed blessing. The irrigation system was replaced and drainage issues addressed, which has helped conditioning. Greens were redesigned and rebuilt to USGA spec, which has helped improve conditioning, but the new green designs are generally less than inspiring. Although the fairway corridors were retained, less than a dozen of the previous 70-some bunkers remain and bumper pool-mounding was installed—all in the name of reducing maintenance costs and speeding up play.
Life's too short to waste on bad golf courses or bad wine.

Tyler Ince

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Re: Your home club--where is it?
« Reply #174 on: January 20, 2012, 11:17:46 PM »
My home course is wherever the ship docks.  For the last few years just the Caribbean.

Typically St Thomas, Bahamas, Jamaica, Mexico.....
'til the Road Hole....