10 Course Bucket List

[John Emerson]

Ekwanok
Garden City
Myopia
Moraine
Chicago Golf
Maidstone
Muirfield UK
Royal Dornoch
Fishers
Sankaty head

[Andrew Harvie]

Because I'm so young, I have a long way to go to catch up to all you folks! But I think my 10 bucket list courses would be as follows:


-The Old Course
-Cape Breton Highlands Links
-Royal Hague
-Kawana
-Royal Melbourne
-Crystal Downs
-Morfontaine
-Brookline
-Swinley Forest
-Muirfield


Of course, Cypress and PV and all those usual ones are on it as well, but I figure these are sort of unique and different enough that it makes it more fun than just listing the world top 15 or something. My 10 I've played:


-Shinnecock
-Merion
-Jasper Park
-Rock Creek Cattle
-No. 2
-Pacific Dunes
-Capilano
-St. George's
-Pasatiempo


And the last spot I tend to flip-flop between Sagebrush, Inverness Club, and Toronto Golf Club

[Tom_Doak]

Because I'm so young, I have a long way to go to catch up to all you folks! But I think my 10 bucket list courses would be as follows:


-The Old Course
-Cape Breton Highlands Links
-Royal Hague
-Kawana
-Royal Melbourne
-Crystal Downs
-Morfontaine
-Brookline
-Swinley Forest
-Muirfield

If you've not played yet in Great Britain & Ireland, trust me, more than three of your bucket list courses are there.

[Ryan Hillenbrand]

Hey everyone I am very new to this site too. Happy to be a part of it. I am a student at Auburn University from Tampa, FL.


My bucket list would be something like this:
NGLA
Garden City
Maidstone
Friars Head
Shoreacres
Seminole
Crystal Downs
SFGC
LACC
Shinnecock
Peachtree
Prairie Dunes


A few favorites of mine:
Palmetto
Chicago
Mountain Lake
Honors Course

Walker,


Were you the kid we were paired up with at Aiken GC?

[Andrew Harvie]

Because I'm so young, I have a long way to go to catch up to all you folks! But I think my 10 bucket list courses would be as follows:


-The Old Course
-Cape Breton Highlands Links
-Royal Hague
-Kawana
-Royal Melbourne
-Crystal Downs
-Morfontaine
-Brookline
-Swinley Forest
-Muirfield

If you've not played yet in Great Britain & Ireland, trust me, more than three of your bucket list courses are there.

Tom,


I have not yet been outside Canada and the US! Any travel I've done thus far has been for hockey or golf tournaments, and just recently started travelling to play golf courses. I'm hoping to go in 2024 to England, Wales & Scotland for an extended stay.

[Walker Thomas]

Hey everyone I am very new to this site too. Happy to be a part of it. I am a student at Auburn University from Tampa, FL.


My bucket list would be something like this:
NGLA
Garden City
Maidstone
Friars Head
Shoreacres
Seminole
Crystal Downs
SFGC
LACC
Shinnecock
Peachtree
Prairie Dunes


A few favorites of mine:
Palmetto
Chicago
Mountain Lake
Honors Course

Walker,


Were you the kid we were paired up with at Aiken GC?

Yes Ryan. Good to reconnect again, what a great day that was! Loved Aiken GC

[Ryan Hillenbrand]

Gotta love Golf Club Atlas and those of us with the sickness. Got paired up with 3 strangers at Aiken and after spying each other's golf bags, bag tags, and logoed merchandise I instantly knew their names from GCA and that we'd be talking architecture for the next 4 hours.


Ok, back to thread.........


Cypress Point
Pine Valley
Shinnecock
Merion East
Crystal Downs
Chicago
Friars Head
Royal Melbourne
Sunningdale - Old
Royal Dornoch




Favorites to Date:
Pebble
Fishers Island
NGLA
Sand Hills
Prairie Dunes
Pacific Dunes
Maidstone
#2
Old Town
Ocean Course

[Garland Bayley]

Cabot 2 courses
Sand Valley 3 or 4 courses soon (if I remember the progress there correctly)
Bethpage Red (maybe try to get on Friar's Head to see how the other half lives)
Trinity Forest
Streamsong 3 courses

Already at the limit. I guess it's time to quit.

[Jim Franklin]

Royal Melbourne
Tara Iti
Cape Wickham
Kingston Heath
Barnbougle Dunes
Lost Farm
Nanea
Lofoten
Ardfin
Augusta National
Ellerston

Top few already played:

Rock Creek Cattle
Royal Dornoch
Cypress Point
NGLA
Old Course
Pine Valley
Shinnecock
Sand Hills
Fishers Island
Prairie Dunes
Ohoopee

[Dan Gallaway]

First 5 are for out Scotland 2020 delayed to 2021 delayed to 2022 trip:
North Berwick
Muirfield
TOC
Carnoustie
Kingsbarns


5 more for someday....
NGLA
Sand Hills
Cypress Point
Cal Club
Waverley - so close to home, and yet, so far away!

[Frank Sekulic]

10 Course Bucket List


In no particular order

  Ballyneal
  Ekwanok
  Crystal Downs
  Rock Creek Cattle Company
  Fishers Island
  Shinnecock Hills
  Cypress Point
  LACC
  Old Sandwich
  Eastward Ho

 
I should be able to cross Eastward Ho and Old Sandwich off the list this summer and hopefully Ekwanok as well.




Top 5 Played


Somerset Hills
Prairie Dunes (Thanks Ryan and Vaughn)
National Golf Links
Plainfield
Pacific DUnes



   

 





 

[PThomas]

Bucket list:


the 25-30 courses I would have played in Scotland last year
Old Sandwich
Augusta National
Seminole
Winged Foot West
Hirono
somewhere in Iceland
Kingston Heath
Banff
Sand Valley Poland


Top 5 played

NGLA
Cypress Point
Royal Melbourne (Composite)
Tara Iti
Lahinch

[Kevin Pallier]

Would love to see
Augusta National ~ I've seen a fair bit of Dr. Mackenzie's work in my lifetime would love to see firsthand his and Jone's work having viewed it on TV all these years {keep dreaming I know!}
Oakmont ~ Henry Fownes famed one and only reported masterpiece
Chicago ~ I've seen a little bit of Raynor and only one Macdonald and their template holes - hope to see this mix one day
Crystal Downs ~ as per ANGC above - I've seen a lot of Mackenzie {30+} but no Maxwell & thereby complete the set of Doak 10s
Prairie Dunes ~ as per Crystal Downs - no Maxwell
The Country Club ~ haven't seen any Willie Campbell work
Cabot Cliffs ~ hope to do more Coore and Crenshaw study
Tara Iti ~ hope to do more Doak study
Oakland Hills ~ hope to do more Ross study
Machrihanish ~ I have seen a lot of pictures of that 1st tee - I hope to soak in the view for myself one-day

[Brent Carlson]

Western Gailes
Prestwick
St Enodoc
Barnbougle Dunes
Royal Melbourne

And some work of respective Golden Age architects in the US:

LACC North - Thomas
Merion - Wilson
Oakmont - Fownes
Shoreacres - Raynor
Essex (MA) - Ross

[John Foley]

Ohoopee
Tara Iti
The Country Club
LACC
Pete Dye
Rock Creek
Old Macdonald
Sheep Ranch
Silvies Valley
Calusa Pines


Have not been to GR & Ireland - that's a whole other list!

[Sean_A]

A bit of a realistic list based on opportunity and location.

NGLA
Shoreacres
The Loop
Stoatin Brae
Crystal Downs
Morfontaine Valiere
Isle of Harris
Utrecht de Pan
Fraserburgh
Royal Hague

Ciao

It took a year, but I knocked off Crystal Downs, The Loop and Shoreacres.

A new 10

NGLA
Morfontaine Valiere
Isle of Harris
Utrecht de Pan
Fraserburgh
Royal Hague
Mulranny
Myopia
Whitsinville
Essex

Ciao

[jeffwarne]

I'd echo Crystal Downs(and no doubt multiple others that way), with Michigan another glaring hole in my golf course resume.
The rest are in areas I've been, but somehow missed

Isle Of Harris
Askernish
Rye
Old Sandwich
Old Town
Tobacco Road
New South Wales(fires changed my driving itinerary)
The Addington
Sunningdale Old and New

[Chuck Glowacki]

Since I don’t like to travel I will limit my list to Suffolk/Nassau counties:


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[Richard Fisher]

Just keeping this to GB & I


Sunny Old
Sunny New
The Addington

R Co Down
Lahinch Old
Ballybunion Old
R Lytham
West Cornwall
Cruden Bay
Castle Stuart

[Quinn Thompson]

Pardon if I mix this up a bit, but I'm thinking my 'bucket list' is a bit "seasonal these days (daze):


- Play some of the great Heathland courses in August, when the purple heather is in bloom.
- Play some of the great courses in Japan in April, May (7-10 days ) when the Cherry Blossom trees are blowing petals across the fairways.
- Play some of the great Links of Great Britain and Ireland in a dry and dusty July.


I imagine any one of those timely trips would be grand.

[Ira Fishman]

To play:


TOC
Royal Melbourne West
Merion
Crystal Downs
Old Town Club
Cruden Bay
Fisher’s Island
Deal
Chicago Golf
The Loop
Sand Hills


To walk (too difficult for my game):


Oakmont
RCD
Sandwich
Shinnecock
Pine Valley
Carnoustie
Portrush


Favorite So Far:


Lahinch Old
CPC
North Berwick
PH2
Somerset Hills
Woking
Ballyneal
Pasatiempo
Yale
Golspie

[Mike Worth]

Having just returned from a long European trip, and because I can get back there easily, my bucket list is about US locations not easily accessible.

The prairie intrigues me now.  So does Streamsong.

Rock Creek
Ballyneal
Sand Hills
Caprock Ranch
Dismal River
Prairie Club
Streamsong (x3)


I will be playing Iona and Lofoten next summer.

[DFarron]

I’m going to frame this a little differently ….


To Play (in order)


Seminole
Crystal Downs
Fishers Island
Merion
NLGA


Courses Played that were the biggest surprises


Ocean Course at Kiawah
Menlo
Yellowstone CC
North Berwick
Aetna Springs

[Philip Caccamise]

I'm already so far past my childhood bucket list of courses any new ones are just shiny new jewels to relish. Just crossed off Royal Birkdale (better than even my lofty expectations) and Ganton (best set of greens in the UK) from the list last week.


Given I am 20 months removed from being told you will likely never play golf again, just to be out there again is a bucket list achievement.



My reasonably attainable bucket list that I'm going to chase over the next few years:
THE LIDO/Sand Valley
Royal Melbourne West & East (had a trip booked that was cancelled by COVID)
Kingston Heath
Metropolitan (AUS)
Golf Club de Pan
The Hague GC
Royal Dornoch
Brora
St. George's Hill
Royal St. George's


Hope to see someday before I'm gone:
Cypress Point
Pine Valley
Fishers Island
Prairie Dunes
San Francisco

[Michael Wolf]

The regions I have not yet visited that I'm most hoping to make happen some day are:


New Zealand - planning to go when Te Arai is ready to play


Morocco - I've been drooling over a coffee table book of their courses for years.


India/Himalaya - Royal Calcutta and Tollygunge for the history, Ooty and Himalayas because they are CD Gourmet's


South Africa - Waiting until CD4 comes out so I know where to focus my efforts. Durban for sure - it's probably the biggest "name" course I remember reading about as a teenager that I haven't made it to yet.


New England - Every year I tell myself Next Year I'm going to rent a convertible and drive from Maine to New York stopping to play Donald Ross courses that I don't know anything about.


One offs I'd like to see but haven't made it to because of location - Banff, Olympic course in Brazil, Falsterboro, and Yangtze Dunes
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