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Peter Pallotta

A brand new Top 10 List-Ranking!
« on: November 28, 2013, 08:57:42 PM »
What are the top 10 golf courses south of the 49th parallel but north of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi River that you can play before the Dallas Cowboy game ends but after having stuffed yourselves silly with turkey and numbed yourself into insensibility with the first game of the double-header and the third helping of pumpkin pie that is short enough to walk carrying a Sunday bag and six clubs but long enough to keep you away from washing dishes with your wife or making small-talk about arts and crafts furniture with her bachelor Uncle Larry, and that was built after the great Depression but before Eisenhower was President? Please limit it to your top 10. Photos would be nice, rationales better.

Peter

PS - Hope my American counterparts had a peaceful and happy Thanksgiving!
« Last Edit: November 28, 2013, 10:18:52 PM by PPallotta »

Ronald Montesano

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Re: A brand new Top 10 List-Ranking!
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2013, 09:03:49 PM »
My first two would be manic-depressive national and meth players club, judging by your wide parameters.
Coming in 2024
~Elmira Country Club
~Soaring Eagles
~Bonavista
~Indian Hills
~Maybe some more!!

Mark Bourgeois

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Re: A brand new Top 10 List-Ranking!
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2013, 09:22:38 AM »
Ranking methodology is from west to east*

1. Dunes Club – excellent conditioning (under the drifts) but the property is not fully amenitized. Actually I don't think it's amenitized.
2. Whitinsville – Ross + Hanse = the oyster dressing of T-Day golf-type situations
3. Immergrün – if you're making a NW Pennsy holiday push there's no better place to whack your Bang! driver upside SAD. Conditioning spotty this time of year.
4. Metacomet – you'd be playing this year in a Noreaster so shot values resistance to scoring is off the hook
5. Ocean Links (NLE) – T Suffern Taylor could golf his ball, then host his ball. Nice Turkey Day twinite doubleheader right there.
6. Rolling Rock – nobody's ever there, which will slow down ball hunts in the snow but bring a few gross, a couple of spray cans of day-glo orange paint and you will zip around with plenty of time to spare. Emergency care clinic just down the road – check holiday hours before teeing off
7. Hidden Creek – drains well and shot values at 8.62. No wait 8.34 (standard 0.28 point deduction per weather event we just had)
8. Cape Neddick – bc Bush 41 isn't a category in GW or GD, but should be. Maybe the “Bush 41 Speed Rating”?
9. Hotchkiss – (another) MacRayBank homer call
10. Vic Nat – tee it up with Kav

A lot of 9 holers included -- mainly just to keep the parking lot nearby -- just go around twice if you want.

*American-level knowledge of geography
Charlotte. Daniel. Olivia. Josephine. Ana. Dylan. Madeleine. Catherine. Chase. Jesse. James. Grace. Emilie. Jack. Noah. Caroline. Jessica. Benjamin. Avielle. Allison.

Charlie_Bell

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Re: A brand new Top 10 List-Ranking!
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2013, 09:53:40 AM »
Good calls, Mark, but sadly for this Hotchkiss homer, the greens are roped off and blanketed with frost.  April can't come soon enough...

Mark Bourgeois

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Re: A brand new Top 10 List-Ranking!
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2013, 10:16:15 AM »
Play alternate greens w 2-putt automatics -- now you can play (could have played) 18 just during halftime of the Lions game.
Charlotte. Daniel. Olivia. Josephine. Ana. Dylan. Madeleine. Catherine. Chase. Jesse. James. Grace. Emilie. Jack. Noah. Caroline. Jessica. Benjamin. Avielle. Allison.

Peter Pallotta

Re: A brand new Top 10 List-Ranking!
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2013, 12:03:00 PM »
Mark - outstanding! Man, no moss grows on you my friend. Thanks for playing along; hope you had a great holiday.

Peter

PS - and thanks for playing along so elegantly, giving my proposed criteria more thought than it deserves!
« Last Edit: November 29, 2013, 12:18:49 PM by PPallotta »

Mark Bourgeois

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Re: A brand new Top 10 List-Ranking!
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2013, 12:16:51 PM »
Sorry I couldn't post full-on photo tours of every one, Peter.
Charlotte. Daniel. Olivia. Josephine. Ana. Dylan. Madeleine. Catherine. Chase. Jesse. James. Grace. Emilie. Jack. Noah. Caroline. Jessica. Benjamin. Avielle. Allison.

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