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PCCraig

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Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« on: February 05, 2009, 04:10:23 PM »
In another thread a while back there was talk of the excesses of courses such as the Madison Club in CA, where you are waited on hand on foot on every corner, fed constantly, and have a top-notch caddy following you around in your cart.
It would also be safe to say that the consensus on here prefer a low key approach to your golfing experience, whether that be at places such as the Sheep Ranch (maybe the ultimate in low key) or other favorites such as Rustic Canyon and the Dunes Club in Michigan.

While these are both almost two completely separate sides of the spectrum, what are some of the things that you enjoy most about the other side? For many on here that may be what do you enjoy most about the high end high maintenance golf experiences? For others (all two of you) that may not be used to carrying your own bag, which low key experiences surprised you?

And finally, please share which has been your favorite high or low key golf experience. Obviously there are sentimental stories everyone has about their personal golfing lives, however I am more interested in the actual experience given by the club itself.
H.P.S.

Tom_Doak

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2009, 04:38:54 PM »
I won't soon forget the honesty box I used for depositing green fees when nobody was on duty at Strathpeffer Spa ... I think they had it at Musselburgh the first time I was there, too.  I've seen it since at a couple of courses in rural Nebraska and in New Zealand.

Westward Ho! is also an experience like none other I've encountered.


PCCraig

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2009, 04:48:33 PM »
I won't soon forget the honesty box I used for depositing green fees when nobody was on duty at Strathpeffer Spa ... I think they had it at Musselburgh the first time I was there, too.  I've seen it since at a couple of courses in rural Nebraska and in New Zealand.

Westward Ho! is also an experience like none other I've encountered.



Tom Doak-

One of the first courses I grew up playing on was a course called the Annetsburger Company Course. It was built in the backyard of an older manufacturing company’s plant and so the employees could go out after work (during lunch) and play 9 holes. The course was very short, with the first being a hard par-3 of 83 yards or so over  water and the longest being 230 yards or so. However there was an honesty box there where you could put $3 in to play the course (this was 1994 or so). One of my early memories of golf was taking my dad’s set of clubs out for a spin for the first time, standing on that 1st tee, taking a loose grip that the local PGA pro instructed me to do, swinging, and letting that club fly 15 yards into the pond. In my panic of not knowing what to do I jumped into the dirty manufacturing water after it! 
H.P.S.

Tom Huckaby

Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2009, 04:57:51 PM »
High:
a) I enjoyed the whole treatment they give guests at Shadow Creek - limousine pick up, locker room tour, etc.  It was silly, it was hokey, it was totally overdone and thus totally VEGAS, but I loved it.
b) I also enjoyed the full 36 hole day, change into jacket and tie, treatment at Muirfield.  I am a sucker for ceremony, forced or not.

Low:
a) I have said often - and in fact got quoted in a golf magazine for this - that the best meal I have ever had in my life was beef barley soup and a fine ale at the old Ballybunion clubhouse.  That counted as relatively low back then... old understated place....
b) I absolutely enjoyed every second of shlepping my clubs around a modest but exceedingly fun 9-hole course called King City GC, in the middle of CA.  The home-made ceviche the pro brought out was as good as I've ever had... and meant way more as he had walked home to pick it up from his wife when he saw us on 7 or 8.

TH


George Pazin

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2009, 05:11:06 PM »
My favorite, high or low, high AND low, I don't really know, is still when Adam Clayman and I were joined by Don Mahaffey on a playing tour of the course he owned in west Texas. There is nothing like sharing the passions and dreams of someone intimately involved with a golf course.

I've had many invitations but haven't been able to take advantage of them, but I imagination joining any gca'er at his home course would be almost as rewarding.

Next up: joining any of the board architects at a course they designed. If my life were a little different right now, I'd be on the next flight to Houston to tee it up with Mike Nuzzo, followed by a trip to Tasmania to join my friends down there.
Big drivers and hot balls are the product of golf course design that rewards the hit one far then hit one high strategy.  Shinny showed everyone how to take care of this whole technology dilemma. - Pat Brockwell, 6/24/04

PCCraig

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2009, 05:16:38 PM »
High:
a) I enjoyed the whole treatment they give guests at Shadow Creek - limousine pick up, locker room tour, etc.  It was silly, it was hokey, it was totally overdone and thus totally VEGAS, but I loved it.
b) I also enjoyed the full 36 hole day, change into jacket and tie, treatment at Muirfield.  I am a sucker for ceremony, forced or not.

Low:
a) I have said often - and in fact got quoted in a golf magazine for this - that the best meal I have ever had in my life was beef barley soup and a fine ale at the old Ballybunion clubhouse.  That counted as relatively low back then... old understated place....
b) I absolutely enjoyed every second of shlepping my clubs around a modest but exceedingly fun 9-hole course called King City GC, in the middle of CA.  The home-made ceviche the pro brought out was as good as I've ever had... and meant way more as he had walked home to pick it up from his wife when he saw us on 7 or 8.

TH



Tom-

Do you know when exactly they built the clubhouse at Ballybunion? The last time I was there the clubhouse was sure there...but I have heard the old one was pretty neat. Was the upgrade really needed?

On the tour of Shadow Creek, what could they of possibly shown you in locker room that was so cool? Is there really a need for a locker room there when they don't actually get much play?
H.P.S.

JMEvensky

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2009, 05:19:47 PM »
Best high experience was the time I played East Lake soon after the renovation.I was mistaken for a top executive of one of their biggest/earliest corporate members.I was treated as the second coming of Bobby Jones.

Best low experience would be playing as a kid with friends on a 9 hole muni,schlepping a bag bigger than I was,playing with beat-up True Blues or Dots that we found in the woods,having one guy's mother drop us off in the morning and another's pick us up in the afternoon-basically,pretty much the same low experience a lot of us had.It just didn't seem "low" at the time.In hindsight,doesn't now either.

Kirk Gill

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2009, 05:27:46 PM »
I had a high/low combo experience playing TOC many years ago, for the first and only time. Driving into the town was magical, walking up to the course intimidating. I'd brought no clubs on the trip, so I went to the shop to rent a set. I walked into the cramped and rustic building only to hear country music on the radio (American, loud, and unexpected). There was a very old but very nice lady behind the counter who rented me easily the worst set of clubs I've ever held in my hands. Mismatched, with shiny grips and beaten-up heads. the putter face had gouges in it.

Still one of the best rounds of my life.
"After all, we're not communists."
                             -Don Barzini

Steve Salmen

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2009, 05:30:30 PM »
I took my girlfriend to Scotland in 2007.  Mr. Gifford let us use his house in Dornoch and highly recommended we play Brora.  At the far end of the course, the cows started a stampede through the fairway.   I was a little frightened.  My girlfriend, having grown up on a farm was not the least bit fazed by the sheep and cows; she thought it was the coolest thing.

The next day we were engaged and had a fine meal at 2 Quail.

I refer to the Dunes Club as "Little Golfing Paradise".  As fun as golf gets without any pretentions.

Tom Huckaby

Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2009, 05:33:39 PM »
High:
a) I enjoyed the whole treatment they give guests at Shadow Creek - limousine pick up, locker room tour, etc.  It was silly, it was hokey, it was totally overdone and thus totally VEGAS, but I loved it.
b) I also enjoyed the full 36 hole day, change into jacket and tie, treatment at Muirfield.  I am a sucker for ceremony, forced or not.

Low:
a) I have said often - and in fact got quoted in a golf magazine for this - that the best meal I have ever had in my life was beef barley soup and a fine ale at the old Ballybunion clubhouse.  That counted as relatively low back then... old understated place....
b) I absolutely enjoyed every second of shlepping my clubs around a modest but exceedingly fun 9-hole course called King City GC, in the middle of CA.  The home-made ceviche the pro brought out was as good as I've ever had... and meant way more as he had walked home to pick it up from his wife when he saw us on 7 or 8.

TH



Tom-

Do you know when exactly they built the clubhouse at Ballybunion? The last time I was there the clubhouse was sure there...but I have heard the old one was pretty neat. Was the upgrade really needed?

On the tour of Shadow Creek, what could they of possibly shown you in locker room that was so cool? Is there really a need for a locker room there when they don't actually get much play?

Pat:  the old clubhouse was there when I went in 1987..it was not in 2000.  What occurred in those 13 years I do not know.  And re Shadow Creek, if you go, you'll know.  They have George Bush's locker with a fishing pole in it, several other celebs from various disciplines.  As I say totaly fake, etc... but I loved it.

TH

Anthony Gray

Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2009, 05:47:33 PM »

   Sorry......Misread the question.


« Last Edit: February 05, 2009, 05:50:24 PM by Anthony Gray »

Sean_A

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2009, 06:41:22 PM »
Among the many ups and downs concerned with golf my most recent has to be the visit to Philly last spring.  For some reason I developed my one and only case of the shanks on my second game in town.  In fact, I can pinpoint with great misery the first shank.  It happened on LuLu's punchbowl hole - #8 I think.  I hit a great drive only to nearly hit the what I think is maintenance shed to the right of the green - understand that I was probably only 60 yards from the green for the approach.  The problem persisted throughout the trip and on more than one occasion I circled a green at Merion.  What a time to get the shanks!  It got to the point where I took a cart round Rolling Green on my last day just so I could keep up.  I wanted to chuck my sticks anywhere and go see a shrink.  I tried to put a brave face on it, but I am sure all concerned were probably a bit annoyed with me though they were all far too kind to show it.  My game is only just now starting to come around - the year was a wash, but I don't think I will ever completely defeat the shanks.  I reckon its sort of like alcoholism.  One shank and I am back off the wagon.  Such is the total devestation the shanks can have on one's confidence where golf is concerned.  I am sure I should have qualified for some sort of free government handout.

Despite my difficulties I really enjoyed the trip.  I got to meet several great and patient GCAers (even ex-GCAers!), play some cool courses, sip suds watching playoff hockey and just hang out with a very good mate of mine from crawling days - literally.  I have no memories of life before this guy came on the scene.  We grew up from birth together and went to the same schools all the from middle school through university.  All in all, it was a great long weekend. 

Ciao
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Tim Leahy

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2009, 07:03:08 PM »
New course here in NoCal, Yocha De He at Cache Creek Indian Casino near Woodland, CA(Northwest of Sacramento). Paid $85 on a weekend and had my car parked by valet at the Casino, clubs were delivered to a cart at the driving range while I checked in, then after I checked in I was driven to the range. The clubhouse is still being built so this may change next year when that is completed. Very friendly staff, the girl checking me in gave me a magnetic marker because I had to wait for her to change the tape on the register. Once I got to the range, an attendant drove me in my cart to the range, free range balls, elevated grass range, he cleaned my clubs while I hit balls and then drove me to the first tee and asked if I had any questions and then left me to my round. Course was in immaculate shape and a great setting.
I love golf, the fightin irish, and beautiful women depending on the season and availability.

PCCraig

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2009, 08:55:21 PM »
New course here in NoCal, Yocha De He at Cache Creek Indian Casino near Woodland, CA(Northwest of Sacramento). Paid $85 on a weekend and had my car parked by valet at the Casino, clubs were delivered to a cart at the driving range while I checked in, then after I checked in I was driven to the range. The clubhouse is still being built so this may change next year when that is completed. Very friendly staff, the girl checking me in gave me a magnetic marker because I had to wait for her to change the tape on the register. Once I got to the range, an attendant drove me in my cart to the range, free range balls, elevated grass range, he cleaned my clubs while I hit balls and then drove me to the first tee and asked if I had any questions and then left me to my round. Course was in immaculate shape and a great setting.

Sounds pretty neat Tim...did it help that you had all that service for a reasonable price? (Considering in Chicago $85 is slightly above a village muni!)  ::)  ;D
H.P.S.

PCCraig

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2009, 09:01:55 PM »
High:
a) I enjoyed the whole treatment they give guests at Shadow Creek - limousine pick up, locker room tour, etc.  It was silly, it was hokey, it was totally overdone and thus totally VEGAS, but I loved it.
b) I also enjoyed the full 36 hole day, change into jacket and tie, treatment at Muirfield.  I am a sucker for ceremony, forced or not.

Low:
a) I have said often - and in fact got quoted in a golf magazine for this - that the best meal I have ever had in my life was beef barley soup and a fine ale at the old Ballybunion clubhouse.  That counted as relatively low back then... old understated place....
b) I absolutely enjoyed every second of shlepping my clubs around a modest but exceedingly fun 9-hole course called King City GC, in the middle of CA.  The home-made ceviche the pro brought out was as good as I've ever had... and meant way more as he had walked home to pick it up from his wife when he saw us on 7 or 8.

TH



Tom-

Do you know when exactly they built the clubhouse at Ballybunion? The last time I was there the clubhouse was sure there...but I have heard the old one was pretty neat. Was the upgrade really needed?

On the tour of Shadow Creek, what could they of possibly shown you in locker room that was so cool? Is there really a need for a locker room there when they don't actually get much play?

Pat:  the old clubhouse was there when I went in 1987..it was not in 2000.  What occurred in those 13 years I do not know.  And re Shadow Creek, if you go, you'll know.  They have George Bush's locker with a fishing pole in it, several other celebs from various disciplines.  As I say totaly fake, etc... but I loved it.

TH

Tom-

The last time I was there it was fall 2004 I think...went with a buddy when I was studying abroad (it was the same time as the Ryder Cup that year). We spent 2 days there with 4 rounds on the old course and 1 on the new. A very cool place. While there the Pro was saying how it was almost unknown to the golfing world and it wasn't until Tom Watson told everyone about how good it was that people starting coming in packs.

I have heard plenty of stories about Shadow Creek, including celebrity sightings. I always wondered why people thought the experience was so grand. Perhaps it shows that if you are going to go upscale...you might as well go WAY upscale!  ;D
H.P.S.

jeffwarne

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2009, 09:47:19 PM »
I won't soon forget the honesty box I used for depositing green fees when nobody was on duty at Strathpeffer Spa ... I think they had it at Musselburgh the first time I was there, too.  I've seen it since at a couple of courses in rural Nebraska and in New Zealand.

Westward Ho! is also an experience like none other I've encountered.



On the low maintenance side,

We played Mulrany, a nine hole, au natural course in County Mayo Ireland.
Sheep fences, spectacular views, hard on the ocean.
Not only was there an honor box, but an honor bar!
the tiny clubhouse was open and the tap was flowing. almost a bit creepy.

We never saw another person, and made up several tees/holes high in the dunes and on the edge of the ocean where the sheep had clipped the turf tight.

Another honor box story.
At Carradale, another 9 holer, we paid our money for our prearranged round in the box, waited and looked around and couldn't find a soul-so we teed off.
No sooner had the first 2 balls been hit when a man ran out of the pub about 75 yards away, leapt in his car and sped up to us, blue lights going, and screaming curse words with the Blessed Mother and Jesus mixed in.
We had inadvertantly teed off from the white tees-which were exactly one yard behind the yellow visitor tees.
Two rounds and many pints later we were fast friends and he actually sent me an invitation to play in their big guest event the following July.

As a PGA professional, most overseas rounds are comped, but I would never tee off without paying....fortunately most honor boxes have nominal fees. ;D

On the high maintenance side (well sort've as actual high maintenance gives me the chills)
My staff and I played Maidstone with our chef who happened to be a member. Having played there many times through the back door of professional courtesy, it was weird/great to enjoy a few drinks in very cool low key  locker room after we played-then go out on a whim and play the 9 hole short course .
"Let's slow the damned greens down a bit, not take the character out of them." Tom Doak
"Take their focus off the grass and put it squarely on interesting golf." Don Mahaffey

Stewart Abramson

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #16 on: February 05, 2009, 10:17:45 PM »
I'm not sure this is what you are looking for, as it is not a high-end vs low end thing, but my best experiences are when I play a club for the first time as a stranger and leave feeling like I am a member. It is less about the amenenities and more about a welcoming attitude. I travel a lot and often visit clubs as a single. There is a great diversity of how I have been welcomed over the years.

Two places that are near to my heart are Glasgow Gales and New Zealand. At the Gales links the pro hooked me up with a threesome. We had a back and forth match that was decided on the 18th hole. When we first met in the locker room my three new friends  promptly advised me how to correctly pronounce my name in a proper  brogue and  throughout the post-round round meal and drinks in the quaint clubhouse we celebrated the match with the other club members as though we were long lost friends.  

I had arranged to play New Zealand thorugh Roger Marrett the club secretary to be first off the tee. If there is a man who defines a proper English gentleman it was Mr Marrett who gave me a guided tour of the clubhouse and a history of the land and club, which coincidentally had the same print of the architect Samuel Muir Furgeson in the foyer that I have in my den (my wife's parents are  Samuels and Furgeson).  He explained how the lockers have the names of each member who has ever been assigned the particular locker on the door and I used what was once Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's locker. After a tasty breakfast, including my first bacon roll, I was introduced to the members of  Nordic Society, inlcuding Messers Issacson and Jacobsen who were having their society day outing later that day. They were impressed by how well I spoke English and wanted to know if I was Danish, Swedish or Norwegian. When I explained that I was an American they explained how my name would be spelled in each of the three aforementioned countries. They invited me to play with them and I was Scandinavian for the day.

I don't like to be fawned over and the Shadow Creek treatment was not my cup of tea. I like carrying my own bag or pulling my own cart (trolley) and raking bunkers myself. Places like Glasgow Gailes and New Zealand that are unpretentious and make you feel at home are the type of "high" experience that makes for the best day of golf for me.

Kalen Braley

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #17 on: February 05, 2009, 10:31:08 PM »
New course here in NoCal, Yocha De He at Cache Creek Indian Casino near Woodland, CA(Northwest of Sacramento). Paid $85 on a weekend and had my car parked by valet at the Casino, clubs were delivered to a cart at the driving range while I checked in, then after I checked in I was driven to the range. The clubhouse is still being built so this may change next year when that is completed. Very friendly staff, the girl checking me in gave me a magnetic marker because I had to wait for her to change the tape on the register. Once I got to the range, an attendant drove me in my cart to the range, free range balls, elevated grass range, he cleaned my clubs while I hit balls and then drove me to the first tee and asked if I had any questions and then left me to my round. Course was in immaculate shape and a great setting.

Tim,

You didn't say, but was this a high or a low experience??  ;D

Niall C

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #18 on: February 06, 2009, 06:39:22 AM »
High - 2 experiences come to mind, the first is a fairly obvious one when I played the Old Course for the first and only time. Very early morning tee time with only 3 hours sleep and almost certainly still pished from the night before. Caddy kept me right and somehow managed to find myself standing on the 13th tee 2 under par. Not bad for a nine handicapper !Unfortunately nerves and the onset of sobriety got the better of me and eventually finished 5 over. Still a magical experience.

The second high was playing the Darley in Troon in a howling gale. A brief flurry of sleet and snow had driven everyone else of the course and my friend and I were able to go cross country playing to what ever green we fancied. Possibly the best fun I've ever had any the course.

Low - on the first day of a weeks golfing trip to Myrtle Beach, fell and cracked a rib, which mean't for the next couple of days I could barely swing a club. Deeply frustrating to not be able to play True Blue, Caledonia and Heritage properly. That said they were still great to see.

Niall

Tom Huckaby

Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2009, 10:01:32 AM »
High:
a) I enjoyed the whole treatment they give guests at Shadow Creek - limousine pick up, locker room tour, etc.  It was silly, it was hokey, it was totally overdone and thus totally VEGAS, but I loved it.
b) I also enjoyed the full 36 hole day, change into jacket and tie, treatment at Muirfield.  I am a sucker for ceremony, forced or not.

Low:
a) I have said often - and in fact got quoted in a golf magazine for this - that the best meal I have ever had in my life was beef barley soup and a fine ale at the old Ballybunion clubhouse.  That counted as relatively low back then... old understated place....
b) I absolutely enjoyed every second of shlepping my clubs around a modest but exceedingly fun 9-hole course called King City GC, in the middle of CA.  The home-made ceviche the pro brought out was as good as I've ever had... and meant way more as he had walked home to pick it up from his wife when he saw us on 7 or 8.

TH



Tom-

Do you know when exactly they built the clubhouse at Ballybunion? The last time I was there the clubhouse was sure there...but I have heard the old one was pretty neat. Was the upgrade really needed?

On the tour of Shadow Creek, what could they of possibly shown you in locker room that was so cool? Is there really a need for a locker room there when they don't actually get much play?

Pat:  the old clubhouse was there when I went in 1987..it was not in 2000.  What occurred in those 13 years I do not know.  And re Shadow Creek, if you go, you'll know.  They have George Bush's locker with a fishing pole in it, several other celebs from various disciplines.  As I say totaly fake, etc... but I loved it.

TH

Tom-

The last time I was there it was fall 2004 I think...went with a buddy when I was studying abroad (it was the same time as the Ryder Cup that year). We spent 2 days there with 4 rounds on the old course and 1 on the new. A very cool place. While there the Pro was saying how it was almost unknown to the golfing world and it wasn't until Tom Watson told everyone about how good it was that people starting coming in packs.

I have heard plenty of stories about Shadow Creek, including celebrity sightings. I always wondered why people thought the experience was so grand. Perhaps it shows that if you are going to go upscale...you might as well go WAY upscale!  ;D

Pat - you got it re Shadow Creek.  Most just find it to be hokey, crass, over the top, etc.  I expected all that - hell it is Vegas, the home of such things - and thus just laughed and laughed... I really did enjoy it.

I was one of the first of the packs to come to Ballybunion likely... oh lots of tourists came before me for sure.... but there definitely were packs there in 1987.  By 2000 is was crazy.  I take all blame.

 ;D

Cory Lewis

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2009, 10:18:04 AM »
Best high experience:  Pete Dye Golf Club, as a 20 year old Assistant Pro I wasn't used to the whole valet park your car, get your bag, escort you everywhere thing, but I loved it.  Beautiful women in the shop being very nice to you, fantastic golf course, pace was a little on the slow side so the ranger combined me with two other twosomes to form a fivesome, how many courses would do that?

Best low experience:  Kingsley Club in October, very low key, Head pro and Assistant pro could not have been nicer, great conversations about golf, course in tremendous shape, had the place to my self, even the grounds crew was nice and friendly. 
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Mark_Rowlinson

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #21 on: February 06, 2009, 12:06:25 PM »
Best high experience playing the West Course at Wentworth the day after the PGA Championship from the same tees and to the same pins. Langer won with a score of 270. He averaged 67.5 strokes a round. I took 97 for my round, so if I'd played all four rounds in his company I'd have gone round in 390!

Best low experience playing Silloth, Southerness, Southerndown, Royal West Norfolk, The Addington, St Enodoc, Pennard and other courses when they were well off the radar and having the course almost to myself.

Tim Leahy

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Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #22 on: February 06, 2009, 05:23:36 PM »
New course here in NoCal, Yocha De He at Cache Creek Indian Casino near Woodland, CA(Northwest of Sacramento). Paid $85 on a weekend and had my car parked by valet at the Casino, clubs were delivered to a cart at the driving range while I checked in, then after I checked in I was driven to the range. The clubhouse is still being built so this may change next year when that is completed. Very friendly staff, the girl checking me in gave me a magnetic marker because I had to wait for her to change the tape on the register. Once I got to the range, an attendant drove me in my cart to the range, free range balls, elevated grass range, he cleaned my clubs while I hit balls and then drove me to the first tee and asked if I had any questions and then left me to my round. Course was in immaculate shape and a great setting.

Tim,

You didn't say, but was this a high or a low experience??  ;D

For the Sacto area it is a high, but for Calif. in general it is a low. ;D
I love golf, the fightin irish, and beautiful women depending on the season and availability.

Sam Maryland

Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #23 on: February 06, 2009, 10:40:57 PM »
While it made me uncomfortable I must admit they used to give a pretty good white glove treatment out at Hamilton Farm.  Haven't been there in a couple years so don't know if they've toned it down but it's a pretty incredible facility and the "service" level was over the top.

At Ardglass we arrived for an afternoon round after RCD in the a.m., literally couldn't find a soul.  Pro shop locked up, front door of club locked...finally followed someone who had a key to door into clubhouse and wandered upstairs and found the bartender.  He peered out the window and said "aaye, looks pretty open out there, go on out and enjoy your round" -- so we did!  Pro shop was open when we got back so settled up then.  I found that refreshing. 
« Last Edit: February 09, 2009, 04:44:42 PM by Sam Maryland »

Jason McNamara

Re: Best Golf Experiences – High to Low
« Reply #24 on: February 07, 2009, 11:00:16 AM »
At Carradale, another 9 holer, we paid our money for our prearranged round in the box, waited and looked around and couldn't find a soul-so we teed off.
No sooner had the first 2 balls been hit when a man ran out of the pub about 75 yards away, leapt in his car and sped up to us, blue lights going, and screaming curse words with the Blessed Mother and Jesus mixed in.
We had inadvertantly teed off from the white tees-which were exactly one yard behind the yellow visitor tees.

Well, surely that was within two club lengths of the visitor tees - you did nothing wrong.  Hope you quoted the Rules to him.   :)

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