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Ran Morrissett

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What course is the hardest to get to?
« on: November 11, 1999, 07:00:00 PM »
Some courses are hard to play because they are private (Deepdale). Some courses are hard to want to play because they are too expensive (Shadow Creek). What is a really fun course that doesn't get its just attention because it is either a) so remote or b) simply hard to get to? I guess the obvious answers are Macrihanish and Cape Breton Highlands. What are some others?
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Tom_Egan

What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 1999, 07:00:00 PM »
I vote for French Lick and anything in Nepal.
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John Sessions

What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 1999, 07:00:00 PM »
Machrie - I know because I've never been there.
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Ted_Sturges

What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 1999, 07:00:00 PM »
Apache Stronghold has to be an Honorable Mention!
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T_MacWood

What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 1999, 07:00:00 PM »
I agree Cape Breton is way out there, but the journey through Maine and Nova Scotia is so beautiful, that it doesn't seem such a struggle.Sand Hills has got to be one of the most isolated courses. The closest great course is Prarie Dunes and that's a hell of a treck. Its like going from the middle of no where to more in the middle of no where.
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JohnV

What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 1999, 07:00:00 PM »
My choice would be Carne in Ireland (Belmullet)  It is a really neat course that not many people get to.  We went and played it on a Sunday and with the exception of one other two-ball, we had the place to ourselves.  It is featured in the latest Links magazine.  Check out the pictures and I'm sure you'll want to go.
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peter_p

What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 1999, 07:00:00 PM »
Woking is at the end of a one lane road after a maze of country lanes going everywhere. It has the honor of being the only course I have even got lost when leaving. But it was a pretty drive.Royal Ashdown Forest. Another stretch of one lane roads. This time you have to drive across a different golf course to get to RAF.Royal West Norfolk, when the tide is in
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Dan Herrmann

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2006, 09:38:43 PM »
Any new discoveries?  I thought this was a great old thread...
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Jonathan Cummings

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2006, 09:45:19 PM »
Ran - the only course that would beat Barnbougle as far as remoteness is a future course they build in Anarctica!
« Last Edit: June 28, 2006, 09:45:53 PM by Jonathan »
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James Bennett

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2006, 09:46:37 PM »
A la Woking's 'hardest to get to'...

Rosanna in suburban Melbourne, by the Yarra and Plenty Rivers.  

Make sure you have a current street directory, or a really good GPS.  People have been known to spend over an hour driving near the course trying to work out how to get there.  The two rivers prevent access from one side, and the roads on the other side also meander.

James B
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Dan Herrmann

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2006, 09:47:10 PM »
yet to be built, but pretty darn remote - Cabot Trails.

We're yearning to be among the first to play it.  

Highlands Links and Cabot Trails...  Friggin' great twosome.  And only a two day drive from Philly!
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Kyle Harris

Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2006, 09:47:20 PM »
Huntingdon Valley has been listed under similar categories.

The entrances is accessed by one of three narrow residential roads. Though the course is visible from two high volume commercial roads.
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Dan Herrmann

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2006, 09:52:35 PM »
Quote from: Kyle Harris on June 28, 2006, 09:47:20 PM
Huntingdon Valley has been listed under similar categories.

The entrances is accessed by one of three narrow residential roads. Though the course is visible from two high volume commercial roads.

Kyle,  good point...  Do you think Pine Valley would be in the same ballpark?    You don't think "world's best golf course nearby" when you drive past Clementon (amusement) Park and the local Wawa.
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RJ_Daley

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2006, 09:56:32 PM »
I'd have to imagine that Barneygoogles is hard even for the Aussie's to get to... ::)

I'm thinking this can't be a hop skip and a jump, either...
http://www.nat.is/golfeng/golf_club_seydisfjordur.htm
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Kyle Harris

Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2006, 09:57:23 PM »
Wawa being a Philadelphia institution I certainly do believe it.  ;D

I've actually never been able to dead reckon my way to Pine Valley even though I've been to Pine Hill twice, so for now, yes.

How's French Creek holding up?
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JMorgan

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2006, 10:22:30 PM »
Mike Keiser's Dunes Club.

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Glenn Spencer

Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2006, 10:24:52 PM »
I went past Yeamans Hall three or four times. I think the hardest to find are Wolf Run and The Honors. I couldn't find The Honors before cell phones, so I stopped at the gas station to call, I said 'I am the whatever gas station on the right road, where are you guys and he said ' you are 60 feet from the entrance, it is right across the street.' I couldn't believe it. Wolf Run is no picnic, drove around Zionsville for an hour.
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Tiger_Bernhardt

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #17 on: June 28, 2006, 10:29:36 PM »
The course I showered at in Newfoundand on 9/12 is a 6 hour drive, then a 12 hour ferry ride then a 8 hour drive from Cape Breton.
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Andy Troeger

Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #18 on: June 28, 2006, 10:31:58 PM »
James beat me to it...The Dunes Club. You could be standing 10 feet from the entrance in the fence and not know it! :)
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Troy Alderson

Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #19 on: June 29, 2006, 12:06:58 AM »
Quote from: John Sessions on November 11, 1999, 07:00:00 PM
Machrie - I know because I've never been there.

John, great choice.  I say Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort and Casino is the hardest to get to because we have so little play.

Troy
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Brad Klein

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #20 on: June 29, 2006, 12:07:27 AM »
I grew up nearby, caddied and played all over the Five Towns as a kid, and I still can't ever find the right path to Seawane.

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PThomas

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #21 on: June 29, 2006, 12:18:48 AM »
Quote from: James Morgan on June 28, 2006, 10:22:30 PM
Mike Keiser's Dunes Club.



welcome James...pls tell us about yourself

and I had read what you wrote...but when I got to play there I got directions from the course and found it with no problem, much to my amazement!
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W.H. Cosgrove

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #22 on: June 29, 2006, 01:39:14 AM »
No mention of Sand Hills?  

Or am I the only one without a private jet? 8)

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ForkaB

Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #23 on: June 29, 2006, 02:18:57 AM »
Dalmunzie (Mackenzie) in Perthshire.
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Ash Towe

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #24 on: June 29, 2006, 03:42:28 AM »
How about this one-
Ringa Ringa Heights Golf Club
Stewart Island
This is a small island off the bottom of the South Island in New Zealand.
Holes 6 par 63 3330 metres.
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