For the Philly trio with Huntingdon Valley - you'd actually be able to play 63 holes with the last nine (HVCC's C-Nine) being your toughest all day.

The interesting thing about a Philly area trio is how much of a swing vote the 3rd course would be. Pine Valley and Merion are a given, but the third depends on taste since you'd be making a compromise amongst many Philly area clubs.

For kicks and flavor - I'd do Pine Valley, Merion and JEFFERSONVILLE!

Another trio:
Bethpage Black
Bethpage Red
Bethpage Green OR Yellow OR Eisenhower Red.

Yes: Cruden Bay  Murcar  Royal Aberdeen
       Turnberry Troon Prestwick (or substitute Western Gailes)
       
No:  The Judge The Legislator The Senator at Capitol Hill,     Alabama

PS A little OT but anyway--one of the best days of my golfing life was 72 holes (walking) as a 12 year old on the 9 holer I grew up playing.

How about . . .

Portmarnock, Baltray and Newcastle

Quote from: Tom Huckaby on May 18, 2006, 05:29:29 PM

Quote from: Jerry Kluger on May 18, 2006, 05:16:10 PM

Any rankings of the sets that I suggested?

Here's how I'd put them:
2. Cypress Point, Pebble Beach, Spyglass (that is if youlet me subsitute one of the MPCC courses, both of which I think are superior to Spyglass).

Tom and Jerry(is that great or what),

That combination is what I dream about, with Spyglass, although I have never played MPCC from what I have seen, it doesn't compare to Spyglass. I can't dream it gets any better anywhere in the world at such a close distance.

Tim,

I am afraid that you have been brainwashed. The opening holes at the Hill are exciting and scenic, thereafter you can forget about being on the Peninsula. You could be on any well treed course.

Either of the courses at MPCC offer a better round. The Shore from the first hole and the Dunes from the fourth. I could make up a composite that would knock your socks off.

Bob

I think someone mentioned the courses around Columbus, Ohio including Muirfield, Double Eagle, The Golf Club and Scioto - any combination of the 3 would be awesome.

In my opinion you have to include NGLA in any dream trip to Eastern Long Island.

I played 72 at Gleneagles. Kings, Queens, Kings and then Kings. I would just sub in the Monarchs or the Centenary (Ryder Cup). Are these the same course or is the Centenary new?

[quote author=Bob_Huntley link=board=1;That combination is what I dream about, with Spyglass, although I have never played MPCC from what I have seen, it doesn't compare to Spyglass. I can't dream it gets any better anywhere in the world at such a close distance.

Tim, I am afraid that you have been brainwashed. The opening holes at the Hill are exciting and scenic, thereafter you can forget about being on the Peninsula. You could be on any well treed course. Either of the courses at MPCC offer a better round. The Shore from the first hole and the Dunes from the fourth. I could make up a composite that would knock your socks off.Bob

I have always thought of Spyglass as a combination of Olympic and Cypress Point. It doesn't get any better. Again I have not played MPCC but the holes I have seen near the ocean just don't compare to Spyglass and the inland holes I have seen from the roads driving around don't have the feel of the inland holes at Spyglass.

jerry

Shinnecock, National, Maidstone hands down. make it 72 and throw in Garden City and you're in heaven.

Joe

all I know is that this thread - a very interesting one - makes me want to take a golf trip!

Tim,

Take Spyglass's par threes, please. The third is an okay drop down short iron with a pleasing ocean view over a bunch of houses. The fifth, a demanding long iron from the back. The twelth a good mid iron with water on the left, not too much difficulty here, the fifteenth another drop down wedge, pretty easy.

Go to the Dunes. The fourth a superb Biarritz of 238 yards with a stream to the left and a forest to the right. The seventh a delightful long iron from the back across a deep depression and well bunkered. The tenth, picked out by Raynor and completed by Hunter/ MacKenzie, one of the great vistas in golf and a tiny green and then, the piece de resistance, the fourteenth. From the back, 177 to 189  yards across rocks and ocean to a green perched on the edge of the world. I am afraid Spyglass cannot compare.

We could then go on to discuss the five par threes on the Shore but that would just be a sadistic overkill.

Bob

I almost did Kittansett, TCC, Essex  but out plan failed.

Lahinch, Doonbeg, Ballybunion (summer days are  long in Ireland!).

Andy