Top 10 Courses Played in 2018

[Chad Anderson (Tennessee)]

What is everyone's top 10 from 2018?  I'll start.  FYI - It was a good year!!!!


1 - The Honors
2 - Old Memorial
3 - Golf Club of Tennessee
4 - Holston Hills Country Club
5 - Primland
6 - Ocean Forest
7 - Sweetens Cove
8 - Tennessee National
9 - Belle Meade Country Club
10 - Course at Sewanee


Just outside - Spring Creek Ranch, The Grove, Club at Ravenna, Innisbrook (Copperhead)

[John Kavanaugh]

Tennessee Chad,


When do you get your drivers license? I'm motivated by the localized flavor of your list to stay closer to home this year. 

[JMEvensky]

Tennessee Chad,


When do you get your drivers license? I'm motivated by the localized flavor of your list to stay closer to home this year.

Connecting dots, Tennessee Chad's interest in Tennessee golf courses is "associative".

[Tommy Williamsen]

      I played a lot of golf this year and some excellent courses. With the Stock Market the way it is, I may have to stay closer to home next year! These are in some kind of order.


Portmarnock
The European Club
Congaree
Ballyhack
Nanea
Kuki’o
Princeville Makai
Mauna Kea
Dormie
Hokulia
Forest Dunes the Loop (Black)
 

[Chris Mavros]

Looks like golfing may be done for the year, so here is my list in terms of courses played for the first time. 


1.  Somerset Hills
2.  Congaree
3.  Old Mac
4.  Bandon Trails
5.  Applebrook
6.  Bandon Dunes
7.  Maidstone
8.  Pacific Dunes
9.  Manufacturer's
10. Hidden Creek

[Brock Lynch]

Here's my list for 2018...


1. St. Andrews (Old)
2. North Berwick
3. St. Andrews (Castle)
4. St. Andrews (New)
5. St. Andrews (Jubilee)
6. Sand Valley
7. Red Hill CC
8. Crystalaire CC
9. Mammoth Dunes
10. La Purisima GC

[Ira Fishman]

St George’s Hill
Brora
Woking
Golspie
Swinley Forest
Royal Dornoch
Mid Pines
Nairn
Castle Stuart
Hope Valley


I got some grief earlier in the year when I said that I preferred Golspie to RD and much preferred Woking to Castle Stuart. As I think back on those assessments, I stand by them. The surprise for me is how Woking remains mesmerizing. And even though it is my own list, Nairn is shortchanged.


Ira

[James Brown]

1.  Dornoch
2.  Brora
3.  The Old Course
4.  North Berwick
5.  Cabot Links
6.  Interlachen
7.  Maidstone
8.  Cabot Cliffs
9.  Piping Rock
10.  Penn State White Course (my soul mate course)

[Derek Holland]

1. Northland CC
2. Midland Hills CC
3. Mammoth Dunes
4. Golden Valley CC
5. Keller
6. Stoneridge
7. Harbor Shores GC
8. Dakota Pines GC
9. Northfield GC
10. Bunker Hills

[Tommy Williamsen]

Here's my list for 2018...


1. St. Andrews (Old)
2. North Berwick
3. St. Andrews (Castle)
4. St. Andrews (New)
5. St. Andrews (Jubilee)
6. Sand Valley
7. Red Hill CC
8. Crystalaire CC
9. Mammoth Dunes
10. La Purisima GC

Fascinating list, especially with La Purisma in it. I played it a few years ago. It could be really good if it got some tender loving care and and a few dollars. It deserve more attention than it gets.

[Eric Smith]

Harbour Town
Sand Valley
The Sand Box
Sweetens Cove
TPC Sawgrass
Whistling Straits (Irish)
Palmetto Dunes (Jones)
Tyrone Hills
Hermitage (President’s Reserve)
Palmetto Dunes (Hills)

[Sean_A]

Eric

I continue to be intrigued by your love affair with Tyrone Hills.

My favourites, nearly an all England cast this year with a two notable exceptions.

North Berwick
Kington
Cavendish
Elie
Pulborough...wow
Princes...I fail to understand why Shore/Dunes isn't much more respected
Beau Desert...new found admiration and respect
Cleeve Cloud
Appleby...play it
Minch Old

Merry Christmas

[Dan Gallaway]

Harbour Town
Sand Valley
The Sand Box
Sweetens Cove
TPC Sawgrass
Whistling Straits (Irish)
Palmetto Dunes (Jones)
Tyrone Hills
Hermitage (President’s Reserve)
Palmetto Dunes (Hills)

I see that Mammoth Dunes and Straits course aren’t on your list.  Did you play them?  Or do they not make your 10?

[Ally Mcintosh]

Merry Christmas.


I didn’t play 10 courses this year. In fact I barely played 10 rounds.


But I saw a few new (for me) courses of which Leven was my preferred option. Also seeing the complete Fazio / Marlzoff revamp of Adare was a new experience that gives us a completely different angle for Irish courses.

[BHoover]

Between kids, work, and terrible summer weather in the mid-Atlantic, I was only able to squeeze in golf around work trips. But I did play some great new courses this year.

Sleepy Hollow
The Creek
Moraine
Baltimore CC
Fenway
White Bear
Windsong Farm
Springfield
Olympic Hills
Bulle Rock

[Ken Fry]

2018 will be the year I played the least amount of golf since we opened the Warren GC back in 2000.  The one upside to traveling so much this year was the exposure to some really good golf when I did play:

Talking Stick North
TPC Scottsdale
Royal Melbourne West
Yarra Yarra
Heathcote
Terrey Hills GC
St, Michaels GC
Long Reef GC
Mona Vale GC
Trump National

I'm hoping to get back on the bandwagon next season for a couple GCA events!!

Ken

[Tom_Doak]

I only played six of my own courses this year, but they were all good ones (listed chronologically):


The Loop
St. Emilion
Tara Iti
St. Andrews Beach
Ballyneal
The Mulligan




Setting those aside, my top five were:


Crystal Downs
Bel Air
New South Wales
Victoria, Sri Lanka
Kukio




I saw quite a few new courses this year, but I only managed to play 30 rounds of golf, on 21 different courses.

[Brock Lynch]

Tommy,


La Purisima is one of my favorites and I've been fortunate to play it many times over the past 25 years. If you are ever in So. Cal. you should try to get to Crystalaire CC. Many USGA and SCGA qualifiers are played there, but is unknown to many golfers mainly due to its location. 

[Jeff Schley]

Was a great year, best part of it was playing with my dad many of them.
1. TOC
2. North Berwick
3. LACC

4. Riviera

5. Kingsbarns

6. Prairie Dunes
7. Ballyneal8. Olympia Fields

9. The Quarry at La Quinta
10. Plainfield CC
Honorable mention: Essex County Club, Sherwood CC, Sand Valley, Desert Forest, Yas Links, Kankakee Elks


BTW this website software really is annoying with the spacing.....

[Steve Salmen]

Shinnecock
Dornoch
Chicago
Trump Aberdeen
Plainfield
Diamante Dunes
Mammoth Dunes
Onwentsia
Kapalua Plantation
Sand Valley


Streamsong Black tomorrow for first time.

[Daryl David]

Chronologically


MPCC Dunes
Clear Creek
Philadelphia Cricket Club
De Pan
Lofoten Links
Valdres (9 hole)
Bro Hof Slott Castle
Falsterbo
Mossy Oak
Wine Valley


Honorable mention


Gearhart Golf Links
Old Waverly
Country Club of Birmingham
Silvies Craddick and Hankins

[James Reader]

A very good year for me. Too hard to put these in order:


The Old Course
Sunningdale Old
Sunningdale New
Walton Heath Old
Swinley Forest
Castle Stuart
St George’s Hill
Huntercombe
Formby
Turnberry Ailsa


And it’s not finished yet.  Off to St Andrews in a couple of days for Hogmanay (and hopefully a couple more rounds at least!).

[Tommy Williamsen]

Eric

I continue to be intrigued by your love affair with Tyrone Hills.

My favourites, nearly an all England cast this year with a two notable exceptions.

North Berwick
Kington
Cavendish
Elie
Pulborough...wow
Princes...I fail to understand why Shore/Dunes isn't much more respected
Beau Desert...new found admiration and respect
Cleeve Cloud
Appleby...play it
Minch Old

Merry Christmas

Sean it seems you have a challenging relationship with Beau Desert. Sometimes you seem disappointed with the course. Is it how the course is prepared that causes that?

[Tommy Williamsen]

Chronologically


MPCC Dunes
Clear Creek
Philadelphia Cricket Club
De Pan
Lofoten Links
Valdres (9 hole)
Bro Hof Slott Castle
Falsterbo
Mossy Oak
Wine Valley


Honorable mention


Gearhart Golf Links
Old Waverly
Country Club of Birmingham
Silvies Craddick and Hankins

I'd like to hear more about Lofoten. As a Norwegian I am intrigued. I have wanted to go Lofoten for a long time anyway. The area looks stunning. With golf I have to be certain I get there now. What is the experience like?

[Tommy Williamsen]

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