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Bill Satterfield

Golf Link Top 100 courses
« on: December 07, 2006, 03:35:43 AM »
Since there was all this talk about course rankings it reminded me of a Top 100 "most popular" courses in the country list I came across a month or so ago.  The rankings are based on the opinions of visitors to their web site (I'm not sure of the criteria).  I admit, I love reading and discussing virtually any kind of list and enjoy hearing all of the opinions that go with it; but this list is a bit hilarious.  I know everyone has their own opinions of what makes a golf course great, but if I ran Golf Link's website I think I would be too imberrassed to publish this list because it loses credibility right off the bat.

Here is a link where you can draw your own conclusions, but when I saw Fossil Trace at #9, Cypress Point at #26, and Pacific Dunes not even making the list I had to pick myself up off the floor from laughing so hard.  Enjoy.

http://www.golflink.com/top-golf-courses/
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Mark_Rowlinson

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2006, 04:57:50 AM »
Presumably very few of the visitors to this site who voted for these have actually been lucky enough to play many of these courses, the great majority of which are private.
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Mike Worth

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2006, 05:29:28 AM »
I don't understand the list.  

#60 is a public course not far from my home.  It is a fairly pedestrian RTJ, Sr. layout.  #100 on the list is a dog track.  

What is the criteria again?
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Jason Blasberg

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2006, 08:08:26 AM »
That officially beats out Golf Digest for the silliest top 100 list.
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Brad Tufts

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2006, 08:59:23 AM »
HAHA...Leo J. Martin coming in at a cool #12.  Never played there, but I've been told to stay away from this muni.
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mike_malone

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2006, 09:42:24 AM »
 It seems that the ballot box was stuffed by some Philly guy(s) who travel around to public courses.

    #6- Deerfield---I love the course, grew up playing it. I never realized it was #6 in the country,Wow!

   #11--George Washington--I doubt this would be #11 in Montgomery County!

    Glen Mills, Old Stonewall ,Westover, and Baywwod Greens are other courses that these ballot stuffers could easily have played in their travels.

     This must drive the "professional" rankers on gca.com up a wall !

   I suggest you think of it as The Daily Show's list!
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Tommy Williamsen

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2006, 11:51:32 AM »
This list doesn't even deserve a response let alone the ink on which it was printed.
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Tony Petersen

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2006, 12:32:29 PM »
I always felt strongly that Les Bolstad GC at the University of Minnesota was a better course than Shinnecock, Olympic & Oak Hill. Must be the 10th hole that pushed it over the top ;D
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Doug Ralston

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2006, 12:46:04 PM »
ROFL!!

Kentuckys Top courses are so patently absurd that anyone who lays much golf there must actually either laugh or short their computer terminal. They could hardly have chosen worse among the public courses. With so many great publics there, they got SOMEONE who suggested such sninkers that reality itself must be buckling.

Sad.

This site [GL] itself appears to be clueless. *sigh*

Doug
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Mitch St. Peter

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2006, 01:21:04 PM »
and don't forget that Avenel cracked the top 100.....

Canoe Brook's a great track...but top 10?

I think the raters put all available courses on a piece of pape and threw darts at the paper to decide how the rankings would stack up
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JeffTodd

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2006, 01:27:58 PM »
Wow, I never realized I had played so many Top 100 courses.  ;)
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SB

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2006, 01:33:12 PM »
Can #13 Fresh Meadow in Chicago really be called a golf course?
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Jim Franklin

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2006, 05:31:07 PM »
I went to that site's message board and what a bunch of numbskulls. What a list. CPC at #26 and NGLA at #86. I never knew there were 85 better courses than NGLA.

I also didn't know there were 25 courses in the state of Maryland better than Five Farms. I thought my head was going to explode from sheer bewilderment.
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Ken Fry

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2006, 11:43:23 PM »
Ok, Ok.  So they realize there is more than one Medinah course, but not more than one Winged Foot course?  Hmmmmmm......
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Chris Kane

Re:Golf Link Top 100 courses
« Reply #14 on: December 08, 2006, 05:27:40 AM »
Snobbery at its very worst gentleman, you should be ashamed of yourselves.  This is a list generated by visitors to a website who voted for their favourite courses - there is no suggestion that the "raters" (how ridiculous to describe them as such) have seen the best courses.  Nor is there any suggestion that they are experts.  By the looks of it, there was no design to the process at all - the results reflect this.  
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