As I did on Tom's thread regarding "playing the only same course every day for as long as you live", I have compiled the responses to this thread.
There were 30 ballots cast and I counted them the same way as on Tom's thread (if 1 course is named it gets 1.00 points, if two courses are named they each get 0.50 points, if three courses are names they each get 0.33 points, etc etc. As the question was not limited to USA courses or any geographic region, all votes are counted in the following and the most courses names on any ballot was four. A total of 34 courses were named (23 in USA and 11 overseas). Interestingly, of these 34, 7 were the GCAer's "home" course of the first one they played (6 in USA and one in New Zealand).
Here are the top vote getters. Note that the numbers after the course name are:
--points earned per the formula described about 6 lines above
--total times mentioned on ballots
--position on GOLF Mag's 2019 World Top 100 list (NR=did not make list)
--position on top100golfcourses.com World Top 100 list (NR=did not make list)
* signifies a home or first course played for the voter
1. Cypress Point 4.25 5 2 1
2. TOC 3.00 3 3 9
3. Royal Dornoch 2.00 3 10 12
4. Overton Park* 2.00 2 NR NR Tennessee
5. Ballyneal 1.83 3 57 47
6. Shinnecock Hills 1.50 2 4 3
7. Yale 1.00 1 83 NR
8. Hackensack* 1.00 1 NR NR New Jersey
9. New South Wales 1.00 1 46 48
10. RWN Brancaster 1.00 1 NR NR England
11. Morfontaine 1.00 1 41 39
12. North Shore* 1.00 1 NR NR New Zealand
Of the 34 courses, 21 are on the latest (2019) GOLF Mag World Top 100 listing, and the other 13 are not.
Of the 34 courses, 18 are on the latest (2019) top100golfcourses.com Top 100 listing, and the other 16 are not.
Detailed results for Tom's thread are listed on Reply #142 (from moi) on that thread ("A Course You Could Play Every Day"). Cypress came in #1 there as well. Not surprisingly, the really tough tests (e.g. Oakmont and Shinnecock) garnered zero votes on his and a few on mine.
Will try to answer any ?? you might post on this thread.