Courses you have not played but "need to see in your lifetime"..

[Dan Byrnes]

I think top on my list would be Cypress Point.

Dan

[Jim Franklin]

Dornoch
Royal County Down
Ballybunion
Royal Melbourne
Muirfield
Augusta National
Sebonack
Sutton Bay
Ballyneal
Prairie Dunes

Happy to say Sebonack, Ballyneal, and Prairie Dunes have been knocked from my list. I want to add Nanea to my original list as well as the two Streamsong courses.

[Michael George]

Foulpointe in Madagascar 

[Jud_T]

Royal Worlington
Cruden Bay
Westward Ho!
Brancaster
Machrihanish
Rye
North Berwick
Paraparaumu
Barnbougle
Sand Hills
NGLA

[PThomas]

No one deserves it more than Paul.  He's first class all the way.

wow, thanks so much Mac!!!!!!!

you are a great guy and gentleman and I really enjoyed our game together...hope its the first of many!

[Wade Schueneman]

Pine Valley - No explanation needed
Cypress Point - ditto
Merion - I would like to see a perfect little golf course (Shinne being a perfect big golf course)
Oakmont - I would like to experience the ultimate greens
Royal Melbourne - How did Tom put it - to see the course that Augusta National wishes it was
Ballyneal - To see just how fun golf can be

[Bob Jenkins]

Any course Mayhugh has played and I haven't!

That would be a lot of great places.

Seriously, I have been very fortunate to have played many of those courses that were on my wish list but here goes:

The new LACC North in the west. What Gil Hamse, Geoff S. and Tommy have done looks amazing. I am hoping Union Bay will be on the list in the future. That place will be special!

Sand Hills, Prairie Dunes, Dismal and that group in the sandhills. A taste of it at Ballyneal made me want to explore further.

National and the other courses on Long Island I almost got to play last year but had to bail at the last minute.

Ireland.

Royal Dornoch.

Any other place Mayhugh has been to.

[John Kirk]

OK.

CP
S
AN
VC
PV
SH (not that one)
City that starts with C
MC (better than advertised)
MC (wait, I can't see that)
P2

[Mark Chaplin]

Royal County Down - may tick this off next year.

Sand Hills - will tick off when I can a few spare days Stateside with my good mate Mr T.

Replay - an hour with the sommellier at the R&A.

[Dónal Ó Ceallaigh]

OK.

CP
S
AN
VC
PV
SH (not that one)
City that starts with C
MC (better than advertised)
MC (wait, I can't see that)
P2

Elgar himself would be proud of that Enigma Variations-esque list. 

Is OK also in the list? 

[Mac Plumart]

St. Albert's

[Eric Smith]

St. Albert's

The thread title specifically says, 'in your lifetime '

[Michael Wharton-Palmer]

Royal Melbourne above all others.

[Bart Bradley]

OK.

CP
S
AN
VC
PV
SH (not that one)
City that starts with C
MC (better than advertised)
MC (wait, I can't see that)
P2

Ok, John:  I'll take obscure abbreviations for $1Million

What is

Cypress Point
Seminole
Augusta National
VC? -- Victoria National Club?
Pine Valley
Shinnecock Hills
Chicago
Meadow Club?
Mayacama Club?
Pinehurst #2

I think I got a good start, but am sure I missed some....oh well, someone had to start.

Bart

[Will MacEwen]

Bart,

I had VC as Valley Club. 

MCs both have me stumped.

[Eric Smith]

I'm guessing Madison Club.

[John Kirk]

I screwed up one acronym, in order it look the same.

Southern Hills - I have played Shinnecock Hills, a great experience.
Madison Club
Valley Club
Myopia Hunt Club (should have been MHC, but I did have the hint 'I can's see it')

[Kevin Pallier]

"Need" and "want" are two separate things. Accessibility and cost are obvious constraints. I would love to see....

US: for starters - as I have seen next to nothing
Pine Valley
Cypress Point
Shinnecock Hills
Sand Hills
National Golf Links of America

UK: I've seen a lot of but would like to add
The European Club
St. Enodoc
Machrihanish
Siloth-on-Solway
The Addington

Australia: I've also seen a lot but also would like to see
Ellerston & Capital

Rest of the World: NZ...

the list goes on....but hey - it's been an enjoyable pursuit thus far

It’s interesting to go back and see what 5 years has done and how fortunate I’ve been. I have now seen those on my US list will hopefully see some of NZ next year.

Those on the GB&I and Aust. list remain though I may have to slip Castle Stuart in.

I may have to do another US "wish list" as some dreams come true
 

[Yancey_Beamer]

Tom,
The problem with Banff and Jasper is that one summer Claire and I played multiple times on these courses.
Guess where we were the next summer!
Yancey

[Terry Lavin]

Thinly veiled AW exercise. Pleeeeeze, gentlemen.

[Ben Jarvis]

Until the day I play them, I will always be daydreaming about when I can do so.

Australia

Royal Melbourne - Composite
- because I've played the West and East, but not the Composite

Port Fairy
- because I live just two hours drive away and have yet to make the short trip

America

Pine Valley
- because I was extremely fortunate enough to play Cypress in July and can't imagine a better experience
- to see if it's really as tough as they all say

Augusta National
- so I can truly appreciate the topography and beauty that I have been told about
- so I can hit that terrifying shot on the 12th tee

Merion
- I love the look of that place and want to experience the nerves of teeing off that 1st tee

National Golf Links of America
- because it looks like one of the most fun courses to play
- because if I don't, I'll forever regret to do so after playing Shinnecock

Shinnecock Hills
- because if I don't, I'll forever regret to do so after playing NGLA
Sand Hills

- because it's the greatest modern course, from all reports

Scotland

The Old Course
- because I've caddied around it in the women's British Open but haven't played it
- so I can walk over Swilkan Bridge and take in the atmosphere on the 18th, with MY clubs, not someone else's
- so I can play the Road Hole
- so I can hit my approach over or through the Valley of Sin
- because it's the Old Course, the Home of Golf

North Berwick
- because I want to hit that approach shot over the wall on the Pit hole

Royal Dornoch
- because it looks incredibly beautiful when the gorse is in bloom

Prestwick
- because it's the birthplace of the Open Championship

Ireland/Northern Ireland

Royal County Down
- because it looks to be one of the most breathtaking sites in golf
- because I had a tee-time booked in 2006 and couldn't make the trip

Royal Portrush - Dunluce
- see second point for RCD

Ballybunion - Old
- so I can hit an approach into the all-world 11th
 
Lahinch
- so I can hit the blind shots into Klondyke and the Dell

England

Sunningdale
- so I can expereince the beauty of heathland golf

Swinley Forest
- because it's supposedly a great golf course at just 6,000 yards - I have no doubt

France

Morfontaine
- it's beauty is staggeringly obvious

Apologies for the long list...this has to be the greatest game played in the greatest environments!

[Tim Martin]

Although there are many the one that keeps nagging at me is Garden City. There is a mystique to the Men`s Club that is fascinating.

[Mike Hendren]

I'm a little ashamed of my sophomoric post earllier in this thread.  Any such list should start and stop with The Old Course.  Everything else is gravy. 

Mike