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Pete Balzer

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #50 on: February 11, 2012, 10:41:04 PM »
Starr Hollow
Keystone Ranch
Branson Creek
Shadow Glen
Escondido Golf and Lake Club
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Kevin Cahoon

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #51 on: February 12, 2012, 04:07:38 PM »
New Zealand Golf Club
Cape Cod Country Club Falmouth, MA
Ocean Dunes Golf Links Florence, OR
Cummaquid Golf Club Yarmouth Port, MA
Harrison Hills Attica, IN
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Ronald Montesano

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #52 on: February 12, 2012, 05:49:34 PM »
Cummaquid? Really? Is that a Swingers club?
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Kevin Cahoon

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #53 on: February 12, 2012, 10:28:51 PM »
Cummaquid Golf Club was founded in 1985. It is considered to be the oldest club on Cape Cod. It means a sandy neck or long point.
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Pete Blaisdell

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #54 on: February 13, 2012, 03:08:01 AM »
Quirky, a buffet of challenges and a joy to play.

    Echo Lake
    Dublin Lake Club
    Keene CC
    Wilshire CC
    Samoset
    Minikahda
    Winchendon GC(Toy Town Tavern)
    Monadnock CC
    George Wright
    Marion
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Tim Gavrich

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #55 on: February 13, 2012, 10:24:59 AM »
NORTH:
CC of Farmington; Farmington, CT
Triggs Memorial; Providence, RI
Sugarloaf CC; Sugarloaf, PA
Taconic GC; Williamstown, MA
Copake CC; Copake Lake, NY

SOUTH:
Mid-Carolina GC; Prosperity, SC
Paradise Point--Gold at MCCS Camp Lejeune; Jacksonville, NC
Lexington G&CC; Lexington, VA
Royal Lakes GC; Flowery Branch, GA
Doral Resort--Great White; Miami, FL

NINES:
Sewanee Golf Course; Sewanee, TN
Hotchkiss School Golf Course; Lakeville, CT
Fenwick Golf Course; Village of Fenwick, CT
Sharon CC; Sharon, CT
Lake Waramaug GC; New Preston, CT
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Cory Lewis

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #56 on: February 13, 2012, 10:41:30 AM »
Silverleaf
Schuykill CC
Hope Valley
Radnor Valley
Laurel Hill
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Mark McKeever

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #57 on: February 13, 2012, 10:53:53 AM »
George Wright GC
Eastward Ho! GC
Schuylkill CC (home club shout out)
St. Georges G&CC
Glen Mills GC



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Sean_A

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #58 on: February 13, 2012, 10:59:24 AM »
Quote from: Mark Saltzman on February 11, 2012, 03:50:25 PM
Sean, is Michigan the UofM course?

Si, the course in town (often called The Blue), not Radrick Farms, the other Michigan university course out on Geddes Road east of town. 

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Niall C

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #59 on: February 13, 2012, 01:41:02 PM »
Quote from: Mark Pearce on February 11, 2012, 06:06:58 PM
Brampton
Goswick
Kington (sorry, Sean)
George Wright
Crail Craighead

Wow Brampton !! Don't get me wrong, a really nice course but its so hilly even Melvyn would take a buggy.

FWIW, my top 5 eclectic

Troon Darley
Kissimmee
Carnoustie
Elgin
Caledonia

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Mark Pearce

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #60 on: February 13, 2012, 01:57:12 PM »
Quote from: Niall Carlton on February 13, 2012, 01:41:02 PM
Quote from: Mark Pearce on February 11, 2012, 06:06:58 PM
Brampton
Goswick
Kington (sorry, Sean)
George Wright
Crail Craighead

Wow Brampton !! Don't get me wrong, a really nice course but its so hilly even Melvyn would take a buggy.

FWIW, my top 5 eclectic

Troon Darley
Kissimmee
Carnoustie
Elgin
Caledonia

Niall
I really like Brampton, even if the AA Guide refuses to concede that it exists.  A pretty extreme bit of land for a course, though!
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Tim Leahy

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #61 on: February 13, 2012, 02:36:31 PM »
How about five from Cali:

1. Yoche De He-near Sacramento, one of the best settings in NoCal not near the ocean with no houses or roads within view.
2. Lake Chabot-Oakland, elevated tee lovers dream
3. Sandpiper-Santa Barbara, somewhere between Torrey Pines and Pebble.
4. Marshallia Ranch-Vandenberg AFB, Lompoc Ca-ice plant, eucs and wind with great greens.
5. Santa Anita Muni-quirky classic fun.
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Tom MacWood

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #62 on: February 13, 2012, 11:16:56 PM »
Mayfield
Champions
Eastward Ho!
Culver Academy
Yale
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John Ezekowitz

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #63 on: March 07, 2013, 01:52:19 PM »
Quote from: Jay Cox on February 11, 2012, 10:22:48 PM
Quote from: Sean Leary on February 11, 2012, 09:44:53 PM
Neither are Leo J Martin.... ;)

Just like there is only one Pine Valley, there is only one Leo J.   ;)

As a 12-year-old, at least twice a week, I would badger the pro shop guy into letting me play the back instead of the front when I only had time for nine holes after school (or on occasion just sneaking on).  I'd usually play 12 as a short par 4 by hitting a tee ball across the river from the middle of the 11th fairway about 40 yards short of the green.  13 and 14 are already pretty good holes, and when you played 12 that way -- what a neat three hole stretch!


Sorry to bring an old topic to the fore, but I was reading this one and was astonished to see Leo J. mentioned on here. I have so many Leo J. stories. I spent a cold Massachusetts Octobor on the Harvard golf team leaving the Square at 5:30 am to go play 9 holes at hit balls at the course we affectionately nicknamed "The Bone." Every day, we would get there before 6:00 am and there would be multiple groups already teed off in the pre-dawn dark. No matter how early we got there, there was always a group of middle-aged guys off before us.

Leo J. might have the worst drainage of any course I have ever played. The stretch that Jay mentions is frequently under water. The 17th is a 300-yard, 80 degree dogleg par 4 that has about a 35 foot drop from tee to green. Your options from the tee are

a) hit a 6-iron to the top of the hill and a wedge onto the green
b) attempt to hit a cut driver over the trees at go at the completely blind green which is surrounded by hazard.

What a place.
If I ever get back up there, I'll take some pictures, post an aerial, and start a thread asking for ideas about how to make the course significantly better without spending more than a few thousand dollars.  I bet you could do it.
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Evan Louden

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #64 on: March 07, 2013, 02:19:04 PM »
John,

You might be interested in this article: http://www.clubandresortbusiness.com/2013/03/06/massachusetts-to-invest-2-6m-in-golf-courses/

I thought that same thing about #12 but never tried it.

~Evan
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John Ezekowitz

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #65 on: March 07, 2013, 02:35:07 PM »
Evan,

Ponkapoag is where I learned the game and I hold it in a very special place. There are still 18 original Donald Ross holes in that 36, including some fantastic ones that have been brought low by terrible irrigation.
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Mac Plumart

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #66 on: March 07, 2013, 03:25:03 PM »
Gulph Mills
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #67 on: March 07, 2013, 04:21:47 PM »
Cullen
Nefyn & District
Shishkine
Perranporth
Carne


Oh? You say I was supposed to have played them?
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Tim Leahy

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #68 on: March 07, 2013, 05:08:58 PM »
The Institute near San Jose, Ca  was mentioned earlier in this thread and I still have yet to find anyone who has played there and in this group at GCA that is really something. Thought I would try it again, anyone play the Institute?

Here's some background for those not familiar with the Institute:
http://www.greenfoothills.org/news/2003/10-2003_Golf%20Course.html
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #69 on: March 07, 2013, 05:20:34 PM »
Hasn't the Institute changed names, and now hosts the Frys.com Open and a future US Women's open? Try the new name, and I think you will find someone has played it.
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Mark Saltzman

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #70 on: March 07, 2013, 05:34:10 PM »
Quote from: GJ Bailey on March 07, 2013, 05:20:34 PM
Hasn't the Institute changed names, and now hosts the Frys.com Open and a future US Women's open? Try the new name, and I think you will find someone has played it.


No, I don't think so.

I know someone who has played it.
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Bill Crane

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #71 on: March 07, 2013, 05:36:53 PM »
Here are mine = but first I have to say I just love
Chechessee Creek Club
and have truly enjoyed getting to know the course really well.   It is a joy and privilege, and just a great golf experience.  Will be there on March 16 for five days !!   ^  :) ;) .  But,  wouldn't one be expected to list C C C ??
 
Dan Grossman - one of my five is also my alma mater;s course Bucknell GC .  Not sure the last time you played it, but a few years ago they really cleared out the undergrowth and trees especially on the back nine.  There were too many evergreens and opening it up has been great,including the left side of 14 where if you pulled the tee shot a little it was "morte".  Quite a lot of sidehill lies, but reasonable.  Shot a 31 on the back in spring 1980 after many pony R Rocks !!

1. Bucknell Golf Club, Lewisburg, PA  USA

2.  Pocantico Hills Golf Club, Tarrytown, NY USA - perhaps Wm Flynns most unusual course.  HARD to get on.

3.  Nord Nederlandse Golf & Country Club, Glimmen, Province of Groningen, the Netherlands.   Could have said Royal Haagse, but everyone would say that.

4.  Highland Links, Truro, Massachusetts, USA- truest links course I have played in the US.

5.  Club de Golf Cowansville, Cowansville, Province of Quebec, Canada - maybe the best deal on golf I ever had.  $28 canadian in the afternoon with a trolley and a sleeve of Titlelist NXT Tours.!  NO ONE on the course. This was a few years ago.

Other candidates:   Heathlands G C - Onakema, MI,  Beuna Vista G C  - Beuna Vista, NJ,   Lake Waramaug CC - Lake Waramaug, CT,  Saranac Lake GC. Saranac Lake, NY,  Green Pond - Newfoundland, NJ ( looks like it's gone).  Cummaquid G C - Yarmouthport, MA  
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Mark Pritchett

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #72 on: March 07, 2013, 05:41:21 PM »
Quote from: GJ Bailey on March 07, 2013, 05:20:34 PM
Hasn't the Institute changed names, and now hosts the Frys.com Open and a future US Women's open? Try the new name, and I think you will find someone has played it.


I believe you are thinking of CordeValle. 
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #73 on: March 07, 2013, 05:53:38 PM »
Quote from: Mark Pritchett on March 07, 2013, 05:41:21 PM
Quote from: GJ Bailey on March 07, 2013, 05:20:34 PM
Hasn't the Institute changed names, and now hosts the Frys.com Open and a future US Women's open? Try the new name, and I think you will find someone has played it.


I believe you are thinking of CordeValle. 

Yep, you're right. They are quite close in location, and I may have misremembered or the projected move didn't happen or some such thing. Se la vie.
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Sean_A

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Re: Top 5 eclectic courses
« Reply #74 on: March 07, 2013, 06:34:31 PM »
Quote from: Sean Arble on February 11, 2012, 03:40:54 PM
Five that I think no one else would pick

Kington
Michigan
Cleeve Cloud
Lakewood Shores Gailes
Lederach

Ciao

Okay, one butt head nicks Pennard and another proves me wrong with Kington.  Well, out with the old and in with the new.

Cavendish
Lakewood Shores Gailes
Michigan
Lederach
Castletown

Hopefully this list will stand.

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