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Dan Smoot

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #75 on: November 20, 2018, 05:09:47 PM »
Quote from: John Foley on November 17, 2018, 09:58:42 PM
Mammoth Dunes - blown away by it and not just due to the width. Greens were great and LOVE the wall to wall FW. Just soo much fun.


Agreed this was very good.  Almost a tie, maybe liked even more ... Lawsonia Links
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Eric Smith

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #76 on: November 20, 2018, 05:11:54 PM »
Sandbox
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JC Jones

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #77 on: November 20, 2018, 05:21:12 PM »
Quote from: Ryan Farrow on November 20, 2018, 01:50:25 PM

Thanks for writing an entire paragraph about how I was wrong.  I did not mean to imply the approach shot at OTC played uphill into the green, I did not explain that well. But I did say the green at Old Town plays downhill while the green at Southern Hills plays uphill so I got two things right  ;D [size=78%]. Both Holes play hard around a hillside which is not a typical routing choice for architects. My sentiment is that they would feel feel more natural to me if the holes continued to play straight or even dogleg left instead on continuing around the hill. If you were walking the property you would not go the direction the hole takes you. [/size]


Well, you're still wrong.  Because of the ridge, a dog leg left and straight would yield roughly the same result.  It would also mean Maxwell wouldn't have gotten over to 5 & 6, which are phenomenal and also would have lost 7 green and 17 fairway.  I think the routing at Old Town is quite natural and were I walking the property and going from 4 tee to 5 fairway, I'm not sure I would have gone any other way.
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I get it, you are mad at the world because you are an adult caddie and few people take you seriously.

Excellent spellers usually lack any vision or common sense.

I know plenty of courses that are in the red, and they are killing it.

Ryan Hillenbrand

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #78 on: November 20, 2018, 05:36:26 PM »
Lookout Mountain with my new friend Frank Kim. I was in Chattanooga to play a more famous local course but came away liking this much, much better. And always great to meet a new guy from GCA. I'd be a national member here in a heartbeat if it were only 3-4 hours away instead of 8.
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Kevin Jackson

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #79 on: November 20, 2018, 08:58:36 PM »

I had an unintentional modern artistic theme to my new courses this year....


Tobacco Road
Sweetens Cove
Calusa Pines
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Brian Finn

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #80 on: November 20, 2018, 10:57:37 PM »
Quote from: Ryan Hillenbrand on November 20, 2018, 05:36:26 PM
Lookout Mountain with my new friend Frank Kim. I was in Chattanooga to play a more famous local course but came away liking this much, much better. And always great to meet a new guy from GCA. I'd be a national member here in a heartbeat if it were only 3-4 hours away instead of 8.
Lookout Mountain is great. Just curious (genuinely)...what more famous course is in Chattanooga?
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New for '24: Monifieth x2, Montrose x2, Panmure, Carnoustie x3, Scotscraig, Kingsbarns, Elie, Dumbarnie, Lundin, Belvedere, The Loop x2, Forest Dunes, Arcadia Bluffs x2, Kapalua Plantation, Windsong Farm, Minikahda, Old Barnwell Kids Course(!)

JMEvensky

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #81 on: November 21, 2018, 05:53:07 AM »
Quote from: Brian Finn on November 20, 2018, 10:57:37 PM

Lookout Mountain is great. Just curious (genuinely)...what more famous course is in Chattanooga?



 The Honors.
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Pete Lavallee

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #82 on: November 21, 2018, 09:03:12 AM »
Black Creek may well be better than both of those!
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goldj

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #83 on: November 21, 2018, 12:40:55 PM »
Good year at this end with close to 50 new courses.


Favorites for the year:


de Pan
St. George's Hill
Blue Mound
Mammouth Dunes
Naruo
The Bridge - first time to play although had visited before


Lots of others - to remain unnamed here - were really close.

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Bill Crane

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #84 on: November 21, 2018, 12:54:07 PM »
The Country Club - Brookline, Mass.


Perfect late June golf weekend, a round at Yale on the way to Mass from NJ.   


40 Holes at TCC,staying in the rooms at the club, and eating four meals there. 


Great friends, super weather, good caddies, solid play, nice wine and wonderful friends.


As former Gov Kean of NJ would say, TCC and you  ......   perfect together !!  ( Need a special accent for this )
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Doug Wright

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #85 on: November 21, 2018, 04:19:43 PM »
Quote from: JHoulihan on November 18, 2018, 02:19:46 PM
Best course:
Sand Valley - Mammoth Dunes just barely ahead of Lawsonia -Links in WI.
Favorite course:
Sand Valley - Sandbox

I agree with these Justin. However, Yeamans Hall is 1A with Mammoth Dunes for me this year.
GB&I: Dingle Links (Ceann Sibeal Golf Club).   
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Joel_Stewart

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #86 on: November 21, 2018, 04:45:28 PM »
Scottsdale National and Country Club of Orlando really surprised me.
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mark chalfant

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #87 on: November 21, 2018, 09:38:20 PM »

Chicago Golf Club  exceeded expectations
Dismal River Red
Powelton (Emmet)
Rockaway Hunting
The Patriot...magnificent
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Michael Felton

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #88 on: November 21, 2018, 10:10:37 PM »
I played a few new courses this year, including Forsgate Banks, Westhampton, Deepdale, Noyac, Engineers, all of which I enjoyed (Engineers I really struggled with, but hey ho), but I also was lucky enough to play Shinnecock for the first time this year, so there is only one answer to this question for me. That place is special!
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Tommy Williamsen

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #89 on: November 22, 2018, 12:03:12 AM »
Quote from: Doug Wright on November 21, 2018, 04:19:43 PM
Quote from: JHoulihan on November 18, 2018, 02:19:46 PM
Best course:
Sand Valley - Mammoth Dunes just barely ahead of Lawsonia -Links in WI.
Favorite course:
Sand Valley - Sandbox

I agree with these Justin. However, Yeamans Hall is 1A with Mammoth Dunes for me this year.
GB&I: Dingle Links (Ceann Sibeal Golf Club).


Can't imagine many here have played Ceann Sibeal. I din't think the golf was great but the setting is a ten. Most westerly course in Europe I think. Did you see the bee hive huts?
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Jason Topp

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #90 on: November 22, 2018, 01:07:25 AM »
I really enjoyed Wilshire and Bull's Bay which were the last two courses I played for the year.  I am surprised that I did not see either of them on GolfWeek Top 100 lists. 
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Tommy Williamsen

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #91 on: November 22, 2018, 04:41:59 AM »
Quote from: Jason Topp on November 22, 2018, 01:07:25 AM
I really enjoyed Wilshire and Bull's Bay which were the last two courses I played for the year.  I am surprised that I did not see either of them on GolfWeek Top 100 lists.


You know Jason, I think that about a lot of clubs. I think after the top 50 there are at least 300 clubs who could realistically get on one of the lists.
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Mark Chaplin

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #92 on: November 22, 2018, 06:10:16 AM »
First time I’ve ever seen one of my favourite clubs and least favourite in the same list. Well done Mark Chalfont!
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Terry Lavin

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #93 on: November 22, 2018, 09:05:04 AM »
Quote from: Joel_Stewart on November 21, 2018, 04:45:28 PM
Scottsdale National and Country Club of Orlando really surprised me.


Glad you mentioned CCO. I really like it too. The recent Ron Forse renovation added a lot of visual appeal and some more difficulty, but without adding much in the way of length. I just might see if they will host a GCA play day there in early 2019. It’s a very welcoming kind of place.
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Wayne Wiggins, Jr.

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #94 on: November 22, 2018, 09:48:25 AM »
Was able to play a few new courses this year.


Favorite: Myopia Hunt
Better than Expected: Cherry Hills
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #95 on: November 22, 2018, 11:36:50 AM »
Tarbat Golf Club, Portmahomack, Scotland

There was a good chance my answer would have been Royal Dornock, but in the dense fog I saw little of the course, and none of the views.
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Joe_Tucholski

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #96 on: November 22, 2018, 03:49:23 PM »
Wine Valley.


The public course beating out Davenport and Moraine.
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James Reader

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #97 on: November 22, 2018, 05:14:28 PM »
A really good year for me.  22 new courses played with the highlights including Sunningdale Old and New, Walton Heath Old and New, Formby, Castle Stuart, Boat of Garten, Queenwood, Worplesdon and Elie.


One that really stands out though is a course that I would probably never have played if I hadn’t first stumbled across this site a couple of years ago - Huntercombe. I wouldn’t necessarily say that it was my favourite (that would be Sunny Old, if I had to choose) but playing there with the course to myself on a beautiful summer’s evening is an experience I won’t forget, and I left with a completely different perspective on how great a set of greens on an inland course could be.  I’d love to understand why no one has been bold or brilliant enough to build anything as good in the UK in the 120 or so years since (or at least, if they have I’ve yet to see them).
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Joe Bausch

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #98 on: November 22, 2018, 06:23:45 PM »
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Ian Andrew

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Re: Favorite New Course you played this year?
« Reply #99 on: November 22, 2018, 10:19:32 PM »
Wannamoisett Country Club

  • Some amazing putting surfaces
  • Grassing around the greens was very well done
  • Some of the most aggressive fall-offs I have seen (5th stood out)
  • Front nine was well beyond any expectations
  • The most impressive aspect is the course is set on less than 100 acre
I had seen places like Ohoopee and Sleepy Hollow before
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