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Brad Tufts

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #25 on: December 23, 2004, 12:55:48 PM »
I had a good year for courses played as well:

Old, played for the first time:
Misquamicut
Plymouth CC
Stockbridge GC
Longmeadow GC
York Golf & Tennis
Lake Sunapee CC
Plainfield
Aronimink
Portland CC
Hope Valley CC
Wilmington Muni

New:
Wintonbury Hills
Golf Club of New England
Lake Winnipesaukee GC
Inniscrone
French Creek
Carolina National
UNC Finley

Gained new appreciation for:
Merion (wow, #17 is now 250!!)
Myopia
Essex County (a yearly thing)
Rutland CC
TEDESCO!! (a shameless plug for the home course)

Jury is still out:
Great River GC (CT)
Granite Links (Boston's new 27-holer)

-Brad
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Jay Carstens

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #26 on: December 23, 2004, 01:33:49 PM »
New Public Favorite: Bayside at Ogallala. NE
A good challenge in a nice setting.  Great views and lots of golf shots to play. I'd recommend it to any GCA'er.    
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John_Lovito

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #27 on: December 23, 2004, 01:45:29 PM »
Favorite first time visit:
Merion
Olympia Fields

Favorite revisit:
Sand Hills
Fenway
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Jim_Kennedy

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #28 on: December 23, 2004, 01:47:13 PM »
Steve,

FCY- Old: Plainfield CC, NJ

FCY- New: Olde Kinderhook GC, NY

FCY- Public: Wintonbury Hills, CT

FCY- That I hadn't played in some time: Berkshire Hills, MA  
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Jim Franklin

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #29 on: December 23, 2004, 01:50:27 PM »
NGLA, TOC, Pac Dunes, and Victoria National for first time visits. Bob O'Link with Shivas for gambling. Sand Hills, PVGC, Merion, and Oakmont for revisits.
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JSlonis

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #30 on: December 23, 2004, 03:26:30 PM »
Favorites First Time:

1. Winged Foot West
1A. Fishers Island
1B. Fenway

Favorites- Always:

Pine Valley
Merion

Winged Foot West was great.  Every once in a while, even if you think you're playing well...it's good to get your A$$ kicked sometimes, and WFW will surely do that.

My biggest surprise of the year was Fishers Island.  Even though I had heard all the accolades prior, the golf course exceeded my already high expectations.  If there is a more beautiful setting on the east coast I have yet to see it.
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Norbert P

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #31 on: December 23, 2004, 03:40:33 PM »
 New courses (for me) that I would highly recommend . . .

   Rawls TT Course        Lubbock, Texas     inverse mounding!
   
   Rustic Canyon           SoCal   (Great group of proud locals)

   Kiva Dunes                Gulf Shores, Alabama
                                  (Thanks Grandpa Bill)

     
  Yearly Recharge course . . .

    Pacific Dunes with a (doubting) chum who'd never been there - played 36 - then met the C&C group in the pub.  

   Tri-Mountain in Ridgefield, Washington
 ( I must remain faithful to my home course)

   Fun and grateful times had elsewhere at . . .
 Illahe Hills near Salem, Oregon  (I still owe you one Mike E)
 The Reserve (Fought) in Hillsboro, Oregon
                                (Thanks again Pete)

    Greatest country unknown played this year . . .

 Royal Husum Hills National TPC in Husum, Washington
 (Niner designed by lumberjacks in the 60's)
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Craig Van Egmond

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #32 on: December 23, 2004, 03:50:17 PM »

Favorite New Course: Southern Hills

Favorite replay: Karsten Creek



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Tim_Weiman

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #33 on: December 23, 2004, 03:54:27 PM »
Favorite Established Course: Royal Melbourne

Favorite New Course: Barnbougle Dunes

But...........Kingston Heath might have made the biggest impression.........by demonstrating you can have some awfully good golf on a modest piece of property.

And, my heart still lies in Ballybunion....where I only got to visit once this year......that business of having to work for a living can really suck!
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Wayne Wiggins, Jr.

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #34 on: December 23, 2004, 03:55:44 PM »
Favorite First time: Merion (East) in a close one over Prairie Dunes and Los Angeles (North).

Favorite Revisit: Philadelphia Cricket (Wissahickon)

Favorite Public: Harding Park
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Paul Carey

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #35 on: December 23, 2004, 04:02:40 PM »
Favorite New (to me) in US:  Old Town Club -- A truly hidden gem

Favorite New (to me) outside US:  The Old Course--The greatest golfing experience for me by far.  From wandering around the town to the golf course which was everthing I expected and more.  There is nothing quite like it.

Favorite Old in US:  Merion--18 holes of no flinch golf.

Favorite everyday:  Four Streams--Smyers make you think on every shot and I learn something new every time I play it.
 
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Rick Shefchik

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #36 on: December 23, 2004, 04:09:09 PM »
Quote from: Dan Kelly on December 23, 2004, 11:03:38 AM
Favorite New Course: Jeff Brauer's The Wilderness at Fortune Bay.

Favorite Almost-New Course: Graham Marsh's Sutton Bay.

Favorite Old Course: Tom Vardon's Eau Claire Golf and Country Club -- as, unfortunately, amended. (Thanks for the tip, John Conley.)

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto. (And ditto to John Conley.)

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Daryl "Turboe" Boe

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #37 on: December 23, 2004, 04:18:22 PM »
Old - Shinnecock
        Winged Foot

New - Sutton Bay
         Diamond Creek
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Jim Franklin

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #38 on: December 23, 2004, 04:19:46 PM »
Shiv, it was $101 ;D, nice putt!
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Mike Hendren

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #39 on: December 23, 2004, 04:20:28 PM »
Other than Cypress Point Club:

Most Fun:  Great Dunes (Jekyl Island)

Most Pleasant Surprise:  I rate Spyglass much higher than most.

Favorite Old:  Lookout Mountain

Favorite New:  Members Club at Alderra (so sue me!)

Favorite Hybrid:  Sea Island - Seaside.  

Favorite Replay:  The Honors.  

Mike

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Steve Lapper

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #40 on: December 23, 2004, 04:32:05 PM »
Favorite new to me: Myopia

Favorite Old to me: Merion/Pine Valley...not much better ;D


Tim Weiman: Glad to hear another Yank appreciate just how great those places are....isn't it amazing how much course Kingston Heath is on such a small, flat piece of land??


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Tom Davis

Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #41 on: December 23, 2004, 04:39:19 PM »
Favorite new: The Patriot

Favorite surprise on travel: Barona Creek
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ForkaB

Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #42 on: December 23, 2004, 04:42:20 PM »
Best not played before:

Dallas National
Charles River
Brook Hollow
Swinley Forest

Four courses that could not be more different, but each in his in her own way represents all that is great about golf and GCA.

Best played again:

Winchester
Painswick
Brora
Dornoch

The first was just stunning after a 30 years absence--if you can get to play it, do!.  The second held up far better than I would have expected when subject to 20 hardened GCAers.  The third I played in a 4-5 club wind with a world top-1000 golfer--it more than held its own, and revelaled subtleties I had never seen.  The latter, well it wasn't a patch on what it was in August 2003, but no course I have ever played has come close to what RDGC was in August 2003.  This year it was just great, even if not ineffable......
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Chris Kane

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #43 on: December 23, 2004, 04:45:11 PM »
Barnbougle Dunes
Newcastle

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Norbert P

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #44 on: December 23, 2004, 04:52:31 PM »
Richard, my heart is shattered. No Dalmunzie? The whistling winds of Glenshee have turned to woeful wails.

  Perhaps if golf courses only had to be judged by 7 holes it would be more valued.

 Also, Richard, not to pick on you, but, are you EVER going to play Brora's "Other Gleneagles"?  It's FREE and you might run into Jimmy Miller! (He lives by the entrance)

 

 
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ForkaB

Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #45 on: December 23, 2004, 05:05:05 PM »
Unshatter yourself, Norbert.....

Dalmunzie was 3*** as a total weekend break experience, but the golf accounted for less than 1 of those 3 stars.....

I'll get to meet Jimmy Miller some day--our handicaps seem to be converging, and I'm sure we'll be drawn together in some local Open before long......As for the "other Gleneagles", is it the same thing (or similar) as the practice ground at Brora?  That in itself is enough pasture golf for me these days.

PS--just watched the 1968 Xmas Rolling Stones Circus special, and JT led off.  I wonder what Hank Haney (or James Galway) would have thougt of IA's high left leg lift in the middle of his flute playing........

Merry Xmas to you and all the other Slagsters....... :)
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Jfaspen

Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #46 on: December 23, 2004, 05:48:31 PM »
New: Caledonia
Return: The Reserve
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John Goodman

Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #47 on: December 23, 2004, 06:42:36 PM »
Mostly old but new to me:
Royal St. George's
Royal Ashdown Forest
Walton Heath (Old)
Hayling Island
Woburn (Marquess)
Verulam
Troon North (Monument)
Woodward CC (Bham AL)

Return visits:
Yale
World Woods (PB)
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Ash Towe

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #48 on: December 23, 2004, 07:35:52 PM »
Best New- Cape Kidnappers
Best Old-Wairakei
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Scott_Burroughs

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Re:Favorite Course of the Year
« Reply #49 on: December 24, 2004, 12:51:06 AM »
Quote from: DaveSchmidt on December 23, 2004, 06:29:11 PM
Quote from: Mike Benham on December 23, 2004, 12:41:09 PM
Quote from: DaveSchmidt on December 23, 2004, 12:28:20 PM
Augusta National.

No smiley face or anything ...

maybe I know how to keep a secret....

Don't you mean knew?

And this was your favorite over EVERY course you played this year?  Remember all those you played this year?  Just double-checking... 8)


For me, no contest:

#1 Sand Hills
#2 Wild Horse

no other course came close
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