Your favorite course

« **Reply #25 on:** May 22, 2006, 04:00:12 PM »

Best: Pine Valley
(runner-up): Shinnecock

Favorite: Sand Hills
(runner-up): Cypress Point

Foreign: Royal Melbourne Composite
(runner-up): Royal Dornoch

Most Fun: Merion East
(runner-up): Friars Head

« **Reply #26 on:** May 22, 2006, 04:58:58 PM »

Within my limited experience...Best, Favorite and Most Fun: Pacific Dunes.

« **Reply #27 on:** May 22, 2006, 05:12:37 PM »

Public: Pacific Dunes...followed by Tobacco Road and Black Mesa

Private: Pradera/MPCC (Shore)...followed by Crystal Downs

On the short list to overtake...Annie (Augusta National), National

« **Reply #28 on:** May 22, 2006, 06:50:24 PM »

Best: Shinnecock Hills
Best Overseas: Dornoch
Most Fun: Prestwick
Most Fun US: Crystal Downs
Most likely to stay the rest of my life: Newport
Most likely to play the rest of my life overseas: Royal Porthcawl
Favorite Open Championship venue: Royal St. Georges
Favorite US Open venue: Oakmont

« **Reply #29 on:** May 22, 2006, 07:17:28 PM »

From my experience best and most fun are the same thing. If it isn't as much fun as anything I've played, then that's enough in my book to keep it from being "the best."

From my relatively limited experience: Blackwolf Run River (although I reserve the right to change my mind this summer!)

« **Reply #30 on:** May 22, 2006, 08:46:42 PM »

Sand Hills - best and favorite

« **Reply #31 on:** May 22, 2006, 09:54:31 PM »

My favorite course to play is Musgrove Mill GC. I never tire of it. Every time I get ready to play I can't wait for the sun to come up so I get get on the course. I think it is one of a kind. I can't think of another course like it. It demands the player to hit all kinds of shots. It tests the short game like no where else. And it is absolutely fun.

« **Reply #32 on:** May 22, 2006, 10:17:06 PM »

I could play just one course week in, week out - Ganton.
If I could get my wife to move to Yorkshire.. Well, that's another thing.

« **Reply #33 on:** May 22, 2006, 10:18:54 PM »

Best-Muirfield
Favourite and most fun-Royal Melbourne West

« **Reply #34 on:** May 22, 2006, 10:51:58 PM »

Of courses I've played 3 or more times:
Best: Caledonia Golf & Fish Club
Favorite: Hop Meadow CC (I realize how much I used to take it for granted)

Of courses I've played twice or less:
Best Private: Newport CC
Favorite Private: Yale GC/Palmetto GC

Best Public: Doral Blue Monster (because of the PGA Tour event?)
Favorite Public: Tobacco Road

« **Reply #35 on:** May 22, 2006, 10:58:23 PM »

Best-Muirfield

Favorite-Canterbury

« **Reply #36 on:** May 22, 2006, 11:21:23 PM »

When asked this question I generally answer that Royal Melbourne West and Royal County Down are the 2 best courses I have played, but The Old Course is without a doubt my favourite golfing experience.

« **Reply #37 on:** May 22, 2006, 11:34:07 PM »

Gary Player was famous twenty years ago for saying that his three favorite courses were the course you just named, along with Pine Valley. He never named the third course, so he couldn't be pinned down and so it was impossible to quote him. The man is a genius.

« **Reply #38 on:** May 23, 2006, 12:36:32 AM »

My favorite: Sand Hills
One I daydream the most about: Fishers Island
The one I smile the most about when I'm getting ready to go there: Kingsley Club
Best balanced course US: Prairie Dunes
Best balanced course UK: Dornoch
Best touchstone for soul of golf: North Berwick
Best quirk: Painswick
Most disheartening: TOC, because I realized I won't see it enough to figure out all it nuances.

Most Fun: Sheep Ranch

Travel: Rustic Canyon, its my "home course" that I drive 350 miles to play.

« **Reply #39 on:** May 23, 2006, 12:51:07 AM »

Teeth of the Dog..

« **Reply #40 on:** May 23, 2006, 07:54:41 AM »

Overseas:
Favourite = St. Andrews (Old)
Best = Muirfield

Australia:
Favourite = Kingston Heath
Best = Royal Melbourne (Composite)

« **Reply #41 on:** May 23, 2006, 03:09:02 PM »

Best: Olympic, Riviera, LACC, Pebble
Couldn't pick one as better than the others but if I had to play one last round it would be at Spyglass.

« **Reply #42 on:** May 23, 2006, 08:27:31 PM »

Best = Shinnecock Hills (Pinehurst 2 and Pine Valley close behind)

Favorite = Cypress Point (Merion, SFGC, and NGLA close)

Most Fun = The Sheep Ranch (Pacific Grove back nine and Headwaters in the running)

« **Reply #43 on:** May 24, 2006, 12:52:22 AM »

Best and favorite- Cypress Point. Without a doubt.

« **Reply #44 on:** May 24, 2006, 09:37:33 AM »

Pacific Dunes.

However, my attentions are now turning to my new clubs. Recently I joined a couple golf clubs as a national member, and I wouldn't be surprised if my favorite course turned out to be one of these. Home is where the heart is.

If my last round was today, I would want to play at Stanford University Golf Course, and say hello to the Bill Kirk tree.

« **Reply #45 on:** May 24, 2006, 10:06:00 PM »

MPCC-Shore Course....next CPC....then SFGC.

« **Reply #46 on:** May 24, 2006, 10:57:54 PM »

I want to have a more obscure or clever answer but it is Sand Hills for all the categories...and it is not that close.

Paul

« **Reply #47 on:** May 25, 2006, 10:41:35 AM »

I haven't played any of the above-mentioned courses.

But I have played Myopia Hunt Club, and it's my favorite, and it's the most fun, and it's the best.

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