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Glenn Spencer

Home and Club
« on: April 19, 2006, 02:07:55 PM »
If you could have a home and club at 4 places anywhere in the world, where would they be.

Here are my 4.

1. Gleneagles- love the Kings, really like the Queens and the Ryder Cup is coming.

2. Winged Foot- love NY and would like to play that type of golf almost all the time. 2 best courses on one property and Quaker very close

3. Kiawah Island- very easy choice. I don't think that I would get tired of playing the Ocean and I think this might be the most respectful place in american golf- they host everything from the smallest college tournament to the biggest of the big.

4. American Club- Whistling would never get boring and the other courses are awesome. Weather would be perfect in the summer. They host a lot and it is a hot spot for golf.
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Bruce Katona

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2006, 02:26:12 PM »
Not in any real order:

1: Carmel, CA - Cypress Point
2. San Diego -  300 beautiful days a year and enough good golf courses ( I live in the East- we have winter0.
3. Pine Valley- Yes you really can live there.
4. Sun Valley ID-  Beautiful place to live - club would be Valley Club.
5. Bernardsville, NJ- Somerset Hills
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cary lichtenstein

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2006, 02:36:29 PM »
ah, wishful thinking. I think I'll answer twice

Private Side:

Pine Valley

Cypress

Friar's Head or National: Hampton's

LACC (I got to have one near my daughter)

Public Side:

Tobacco Road:  Pinehurst

Whistling Straits: Kolher + River and Erin Hills

The Quarry at Giants Ridge: Minn

Lakota Canyon: Colo

Arcadia Bluffs: Traverse City

Pacific Dunes: Oregon

The Old Course: Scotland


I guess that's 10 houses and 10 clubs, but I kept it under the 14 club rule ;D


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Jim Franklin

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2006, 02:57:53 PM »
Monterey - Cypress Point
The Hamptons - NGLA
St Andrews - The Old Course
Las Vegas - Shadow Creek (I hear Steve Wynn's old house is for sale)
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Brendan Dolan

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2006, 03:52:17 PM »
Delafield - Erin Hills
Newcastle - Royal County Down
Ballybunion - Ballybunion
Monterey - Cypress Point
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Garland Bayley

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2006, 04:01:07 PM »
Since I don't get to play these courses, this is an abstract endeavor based on what I have read and seen pictures of.
Georgetown Lake, MT - Rock Creek Cattle Club (I grew up in MT and I trust Tom D)
Bandon, OR - Bandon Resort (I love the beauty of the southern Oregon coast)
Long Island, NY - Friar's Head (Hopefully that would also get me invites to play NGLA, Sebonack, Shinnecock, etc.
Santa Fe, NM - Black Mesa (What can I say, I am a mountain man at heart)
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Tyler Kearns

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2006, 04:17:55 PM »
Cypress Point
National Golf Links
St. Andrews
Royal Melbourne (winter home)

I figure you'de likely get out to the surrounding clubs on occasion, so their proximity is also an important part of the equation. With NGLA and Royal Melbourne encircled by great clubs, and excellent to good choices at the other two, I'd be a very happy man.

TK
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Glenn Spencer

Re:Home and Club
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2006, 04:21:21 PM »
Doesn't quantity factor into such a decision. I would think access to the local courses would be granted to some degree also. I was more or less wondering about how the amount and varying types of courses and weather and such would affect one's decision.
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ChasLawler

Re:Home and Club
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2006, 04:24:30 PM »
Seminole - winter
Fishers Island - summer
Cypress Point - any time in between
Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis - all year long
« Last Edit: April 19, 2006, 04:25:40 PM by Cabell_Ackerly »
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Tim Pitner

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2006, 04:37:40 PM »
Quote from: Glenn Spencer on April 19, 2006, 04:21:21 PM
Doesn't quantity factor into such a decision. I would think access to the local courses would be granted to some degree also. I was more or less wondering about how the amount and varying types of courses and weather and such would affect one's decision.

Location and variety of courses among the four would be the most important factors for me.  How about . . .

Denver (Colorado Golf Club?)
Santa Barbara (Valley Club)
Bandon, OR (Pacific Dunes et al)
Dublin (all of Ireland)
Bellagio, Italy (when I don't want to play golf).  
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Matt MacIver

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2006, 05:13:58 PM »
Wow, a dreamy question.  Nice problem to have...

U.S. East coast beach - Hamptons & Nat'l et al

U.S. West coast beach - Cypress et al

U.S. mountains - Beaver Creek & Red Sky Golf (Norman & Fazio)

Int'l - undecided! but either north Ireland, St. Andrews or Dornoch area or Down Under.  
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Kirk Gill

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2006, 05:20:35 PM »
Just for the sake of convenience, and because I love that part of the country, I'll go for Sunningdale, Swinley forest, and Woking. Just one home needed. My fourth club would then be, by necessity, a place for vacationing, somewhere far away................So I'd add Dornoch.

Sigh............................ 8)
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Gene Greco

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2006, 05:28:21 PM »
Summer - Southampton, NY
Autumn - Carmel, CA
Winter - Scottsdale, Arizona
Spring - Newcastle, Ireland
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Andrew Summerell

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2006, 05:36:18 PM »
Cypress Point, Carmel.

NGLA, Hamptons.

Royal Melbourne, Melbourne.

St Andrews, St Andrews.
« Last Edit: April 19, 2006, 05:39:34 PM by Andrew Summerell »
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Tyler Kearns

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2006, 05:44:20 PM »
Andrew,

Check reply #6, it looks like we have similar taste. Or you cheated.

TK
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Andy Doyle

Re:Home and Club
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2006, 06:11:21 PM »
If I'm picking places I've actually been to (not necessarily played, mind you):

East Lake - I have a home in Atlanta, all I need is the membership.  :D
Augusta, Augusta National Golf Club - channeling Bob Jones?  One of the cabins on the property would be just fine.
Pacific Grove, Monterey or Carmel - Cypress Point Club
Lahinch, Lahinch Golf Club

Andy

P.S.  I would get my best friend to pick Melbourne, Bandon, St. Andrews and Long Island.
« Last Edit: April 19, 2006, 06:17:39 PM by Andy Doyle »
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Anthony_Nysse

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2006, 06:28:57 PM »
Friar's Head-Southampton, NY-Summer
Kinloch Golf Club-Richmond, VA-Year Round
Seminole Golf Club-Jupitor, FL-Winter
Chicago Golf Club-Wheaton, IL-Spring, Summer and fall and @ 6000 rounds a year, I can have a course to myself. No two courses alike..modern and classic

Tony Nysse
Asst. Supt.
Long Cove Club
HHI, SC

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Craig Sweet

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #17 on: April 20, 2006, 12:19:28 AM »
Garland, I'm with you....Bandon...Montana...Friars Head....Santa Fe, and I'd add Cypress Point
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Andrew Summerell

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #18 on: April 20, 2006, 12:32:56 AM »
Quote from: Tyler Kearns on April 19, 2006, 05:44:20 PM
Andrew,

Check reply #6, it looks like we have similar taste. Or you cheated.

TK

Sorry about that, Tyler. I must have been looking over your shoulder. ;)
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ChasLawler

Re:Home and Club
« Reply #19 on: April 20, 2006, 08:09:22 AM »
Anthony - I'd be interested to hear why you're such a big fan of Kinloch.
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wsmorrison

Re:Home and Club
« Reply #20 on: April 20, 2006, 08:29:16 AM »
Four homes is a lot, but if I had that kind of scratch I'd choose something like this:

Indian Creek, FL:  Indian Creek Country Club with a home on the island

Southampton, NY:  Shinnecock Hills Golf Club

Haverford, PA:  Merion Golf Club

Surrey, England:  Swinley Forest

If I could afford this kind of portfolio of homes/clubs , I would insist on having a home near St. Andrews, Scotland as well.
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John_Cullum

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #21 on: April 20, 2006, 11:53:08 AM »
No hesitation for me...

Winter in Jupiter FL and play Jupiter Hills

Summer in Cashiers NC and play Wade Hampton.

I am almost 1/4th of the way there.

I don't need 4 places to keep up.
« Last Edit: April 20, 2006, 12:24:55 PM by John Cullum »
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Andy Scanlon

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #22 on: April 20, 2006, 12:19:05 PM »
WPB/Jupiter - Seminole
Monterey/Carmel - Cypress Point
Scotland - St. Andrews
Long Island - NLGA
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Garland Bayley

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Re:Home and Club
« Reply #23 on: April 20, 2006, 12:32:09 PM »
What? Nobody wants to live in NE?
 ;D
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Glenn Spencer

Re:Home and Club
« Reply #24 on: April 20, 2006, 12:51:13 PM »
I could do NE with access to TCC, Charles River and Wollaston. I would have to sub for Winged Foot though. Tough.
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