Jim:
How long have you been a magazine panelist? How did you start?
Cathoilics vs. Convicts...greatest game ever?
What is your favorite hole at Baltimore CC? Why?
How many trips to the UK for golf?
Do you usually walk or ride?
Most underappreciated course you have seen?
How reluctant are you to be critical of courses on GCA.com?
What one thing would make GCA.com better?
When are you coming to Grandfather to play?
Good luck and thanks for participating!
Bart
I have been a panelist since 2002.
Catholics versus convicts was not the best game ever. Wrong team won. I think we had more Catholics on out team that year too
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My favorite hole at BCC is #10. You need to hit a good drive to set up a birdie. A bad drive leaves you a challenge to just reach the green. There is a pond fronting the green, but there is an alley to the right where you can run up a shot.
I have made 2 trips to Scotland, but need to make many many more. I love it there.
I generally walk and carry. With three kids I do not exercise as much as I should so walking and carrying is my exercise. And with the up and down nature of our last 5 holes, it is a good exercise.
The most underappreciated course everywhere but on Golf Digest is Victoria National. It recently fell out of my top 10, but I love it. Kingsley is underappreciated by GD and so is Northland CC. I loved Northland CC as it was brown, firm, and fast. Just ideal.
I sometimes am reluctant to be critical (except of course in relation to BCC) because that's just me. I hated saying Sahalee is overrated, and just because I do not think it is Top 100 material doesn't mean the course stinks. It's all opinions and everyone is entitled to one. It's what makes the world go around.
I like GCA. I like finding out about new courses and have met some really good people. If not for GCA, I would never have heard of Rock Creek, Ballyneal, Friars Head, etc...I am not sure what would make it better. Let me think about that a lttle longer.
I loved Grandfather when I played it a few years ago. I need to get back. I tell people all of the time how fast those greens were. So many places and so little time. Plus my big client in Charlotte has moved to St Louis which now makes it more difficult.