Where did you play in 2024?

[Bill Gayne]

It was a good year:

1. Country Club of Virginia River Course
2. Foundry GC
3. Pinehurst #8
4. Pinehurst #4
5. Cradle
6. The Old Course
7. Kingsbarns*
8. New Course
9. Cedar Point CC (VA)
10. Cavalier G&YC (VA)
11. Boonsboro CC* (VA)
12 Myopia Hunt
13. Kittanset Club*
14. Machrihanish
15. Irvine GC*
16. Dunaverty GC
17. Shiskine*
18. West Kilbride*
19. Eden Course
20. Royal Aberdeen*
21. Cruden Bay - old
22. Crude Bay - St Olaf*
23. Elie
24. Crail Balcomie*
25. Venetian Bay (FL)
26. Kiawah Cougar Point
27. Kiawah Ocean Course
28. Rolling Green
29. U of Maryland
30. Crail Craighead
31. Cullen GC
32. Nairn*
33. Jubilee Course
34. Castle Course*
35. Castle Stuart*
36. Pinehurst #9
37. Chapel Hill CC*
38. Pawleys Plantation*
39. Willow Brook (SC)*
40. River Club (SC)*
41. Lichfield CC (SC)*
42. Sapello Hammock Creek*
43. Turnbull Bay (FL)

* New courses.

Thank you to my numerous GCA.com playing partners.

BUDA as always was a highlight. Mike Whittaker once said to me "BUDA never disappoints" and that is the truth.

I had my first hole in one after 35 years or so of playing the game. The 13th hole on the New Course. Then after 35 years, I had my second hole in one just ten days later on the 11th hole at Elie.

Returned to Rolling Green and with every playing my appreciation for the course grows.

Returned to Myopia Hunt and it's one of one.

Skiskine has been on my list and finally made it. Going to courses on Arran, Kintyre Peninsula, and Islay is as much about the journey as the golf (which is fun and quirky).

Cullen has some cool land forms that would look in place on a golf course in Sedona.

Looking forward to 2025!

[Dan Gallaway]

Had a few trips get canceled last minute so I only managed two new courses in 2024 (how is that possible?):


Gearhart and Pronghorn - Fazio 


Both are in serious contention for Best First Public/Private I Played in 2024!

[Dan Boerger]

Paul Jones - That is a mighty impressive lineup. Curious what you thought of the three CNY courses: Sadaquada, Teugega and Yahnundasis.


Wayne - Have you played Gulph Mills yet? If not, let me know next time you are in town.

[Greg Hohman]

I have a 1931 Castle Shannon Golf Club routing, Unfortunately I don’t appear to have asked anybody to post it for me at the Ed Oden routings thread. I’m struggling to reconcile it with your two images.
 
The original 18 routing is one of my «holy grails».

Greg,


Thanks for that additional info!


Happy to post it for you if you send to my email.

Correction: Joe Bausch posted the Castle Shannon layout for me in 2021. See Reply 1549.

[MCirba]

Correction: Joe Bausch posted the Castle Shannon layout for me in 2021. See Reply 1549.

Greg,


You mentioned on another thread that you were having a tough time reconciling the 1931 drawing of Castle Shannon NKA Mount Lebanon GC and I believe I know why.   I've taken the 1931 routing drawing and oriented it pointing north below;







Then, I compare it with the 1948 aerial below;




From my perspective it looks as though the artist took some liberties to fit in the Text of the course name, yardage, etc. by subtly moving what are today's (shortened) hole 5 and an adjoining long par three 1st that would have played from the southwest corner up to the practice green near the 5th tee.   

It also appears as though the clubhouse was in a different spot, also further southwest than today's and likely replaced by the Elementary School.   Today's 6th hole didn't exist back then, it was created sometime in the 60s or early 70s when the clubhouse moved, and the 8th hole on the 1931 map was also discarded, except for the green.   

So, I'd say the 1931 4th hole is today's #1, the 3rd is today's hole #2 (playing to original green #8), the 2nd is today's 3rd, today's 4th didn't exist until the early 60s, the 1931 9th is today's par three hole 5, truncated likely to avoid the school yard, 1931 hole #1 was abandoned except the green is still a practice green, the 1931 8th would have paralleled today's 6th corridor (in reverse) of today's 6th, lying just shortly north, 1931 holes 5 & 6 are today's holes 7 & 8, and today's 9th was extended with new tees back behind the 8th green to create a short par four to the green of the 1931 par three 7th hole.   

Hope that helps!

[Greg Hohman]

Mike, wow and by Jove and thank you! I think my spatially challenged brain has got it, but won’t know for sure until I have printed the aerial and dusted off my protractor.

[MCirba]

Mike, wow and by Jove and thank you! I think my spatially challenged brain has got it, but won’t know for sure until I have printed the aerial and dusted off my protractor.

Greg,


Thanks...glad this was helpful!


I did cheat a bit using historicaerials.com which has aerial photos of Mt. Lebanon from 1947 and then every few years til 2022.   Their compare function with a slider bar is really useful to learn things like today's 2nd green actually plays to the 8th green on your 1931 map and that today's 9th green never changed position in the transition from a short par 3 to a short par 4.


Let me know any questions, thanks!

[mike_malone]

 Bill,
 
“Returned to Rolling Green and with every playing my appreciation for the course grows.”
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[Daryl "Turboe" Boe]

Another great year!  I sure hope my body, and employment status hold up well enough to let this continue for a few more years...

Scotch Meadow CC
Piney Point GC
Cummings Cove GC
Fernandina Beach GC (West)
Fernandina Beach GC (North/South)
Mount Dora GC
CC of Mount Dora
Wekiva GC
Sweetwater CC
The Bluff GC
Bartow GC
Pine Hills CC
Quitman CC
San Carlos GC
Eagle Ridge CC
Sanibel Island GC
Musgrove Mill GC
Shipyard GC (Brigantine/Galeon)
Port Royal GC (Robbers Row)
Southern Hills CC
Grand Prairie CC
Stuttgart CC
Russellville CC
Galla Creek GC
Shadow Ridge Golf Club
Sumter CC
Ole Monterey CC
Mystery Valley GC
Cedar Lake GC
Honey Creek GC
Ashton Hills GC
Bayonet at Puppy Creek
Stryker at Ft Bragg
Ryder at Ft Bragg
The Wellman Club
Spring Hill Golf Course
Timber Creek GC (Magnolia/Pines)
Timber Creek GC (Dogwood)
Loblolly Club
Miles Grant CC
Heritage Ridge GC
American GC of Vero Beach (Red/White)
American GC of Vero Beach (Blue)
Barefoot Bay GC
Birck Boilermaker (Ackerman-Allen)
Bittersweet GC
Washington County GC
Strawberry Creek CC
North Hills CC (My 2500th different golf course in my life)
Whispering Springs GC
Macktown GC
Sinnisippe GC
Aldeen GC
White Eagle GC
Minneapolis GC
Loon Lake GC
The Falls GC @ Grand Falls
Christmas Mountain GC (Pines)
Christmas Mountain GC (Oaks)
Lodi GC
Westchester GC
Groveport Municipal GC
Hocking Hills (F.K.A. Brass Ring)
Berry Hills CC
Beau Rivage Golf Resort
Wilmington Municipal GC
Whitepath GC
The Tree Farm
The Chalkmine 9
Sage Valley GC (Par 3)
Sage Valley GC
Kinderton CC
Pinehurst Resort (No 10) Sandmine
The Deepdale Club
Glen Cove GC
St. George's G&CC
Friars Head Club
The Bridge
The Bridge (Short)
Shelter Island CC (aka Goat Hill)
The Seawane Club
Lido Golf Course
Shannon Greens GC
Diamond Creek
Roaring Gap Club
Old Town Club
Glenroachie CC
Steele Creek GC
Egyptian CC
Western Hills GC
Tuscarora CC
Humboldt G&CC
Rolling Hills CC
Covington CC
Percy Warner GC
Cherry Blossom GC
Avon Fields
Bolingbrook CC
Country Club Estates
Deertrak GC
Paganica GC
Kenosha CC
Sedge Valley GR
R & L Golf Farm
Noyes Park GC
The Fairways GC
Olympia Fields GC (South)
Valdosta CC 
Valdosta CC (Short)
Quiet Pines GC
Cabot Citrus Farms (Karoo)
Cabot Citrus Farms (Squeeze)
Sugarmill Woods
Citrus National GC
The Idaho Club
Quicksands @ Gamble Sands
Gamble Sands GC
Gozzer Ranch
CDA National
Shoshone CC
Rock Creek Cattle Co
Anaconda CC
Tributary (FKA Huntsman Springs)
Snake River Sporting Club
Shooting Star of Jackson Hole
Rochelle Ranch GC
Little America GC
Hiawatha GC
MIdland Hills CC
Kennett CC
Pine Knolls GC
Southhampton GC
Old Westbury (Woods/Bluegrass)
Old Westbury (Overlook)
Garden City Golf Club
Douglaston GC
LinRick Golf Course
Redbank Plantation GC (JBC)
Rolling Hills CC
Tot Hill Farms
Densons Creek GC
Texas A&M University GC
Bentwater CC (Miller)
Bentwater CC (Weiskopf)
Highland Creek GC
Legend Oaks GC
Black Creek GC
Sea Palms
Ocean Forest GC
Pine Forest GC
The River @ Lake Royale
Towne Lake Hills GC
Cherokee Golf Center
The Republic GC
Broomsedge GC
The Legacy @ Port St. Lucie
Aquarina CC
Spanish Lakes Fairway
Sebastian Municipal GC
Royal St Augustine GC
Willow Creek GC


To quote the Harbaugh brothers...  "Who's got it better than us?!?  NOOOO-BOOOODY!!"

[Richard Fisher]

Not really a vintage year for discovery. Away plays were
(new to me) Seacroft, Prestatyn
(revisited) Thetford, The Sacred Nine, Brancaster, Goswick
Member plays were
Harlech, Huntercombe, Porthcawl, St Andrews (various) and both of the Gog Magog courses


Really enjoyed most of Seacroft and the back nine at Prestatyn: Goswick was as primally pleasing (and tough) as ever, and I remain very glad to have persuaded Ran to visit there for a course profile...