Expose yourself as a FRAUD - I'll go first!

[David_Elvins]

a few that have already been mentioned.

I am an average golfer but like to know yardages.

I sometimes enjoy playing a course in good condition more than a course with good architecture. 

[Alex Miller]

Ok ok you got me.... I'm still playing square grooves 

As for the architecture

I like playing courses that let me choose what I get to hit off the tee, not one that forces me to hit something (not really bad, I guess)

I like water holes too, as long as the water sits below the rest of the golf hole!

I like playing with the GPS on my phone since I got it (for free, PM me if you have an iphone and you're curious)

I like deep bunkers and fast greens.

[Sean Leary]

I enjoy desert golf, fast greens, consistent bunkers, carting it when playing 36, hot cart girls, and  playing for a score.

[Anthony Gray]

  I like the guys of today more than the ODG's.Give me eye candy also.

  Anthony

[Greg Tallman]

No contours necessary.  I love the silky smooth, though relatively flat, Tom Weiskopf designed greens at Forest Dunes in Michigan. In a cart. With a cooler. Full of beer.

And here I thought Tom gave up drinking?

[Keith OHalloran]

I think that Firm and Fast or "F and F" is the most overused and tired cliche on this DG.
I also think that the post US Open Bethpage Black is a little too hard to enjoy on a daily basis. I am sorry, I can't hit fairways that narrow on 460 yard par 4's.

[Greg Tallman]

I have learned to enjoy golf with fellow competitors who do not stop talking during the entire 16 hole round.

[Jaeger Kovich]

My home course has bunkers on both sides of 17 greens and I preach variety!

[JC Jones]

No contours necessary.  I love the silky smooth, though relatively flat, Tom Weiskopf designed greens at Forest Dunes in Michigan. In a cart. With a cooler. Full of beer.

Amen.  Why haven't we done this.

[Wade Schueneman]

I like narrow holes . . . and sometimes wide holes bother me because I just cannot see the shot.
I think recovery shots are more interesting than shots from the fairway.
I have never played a green that was too bold for my tast (or too fast).  I think it is partly because slow straight putts intimidate me (because I sure feel incompetent when I miss them).
I could care less about how fair a golf course is. 

[Chris Flamion]

I almost always keep score..even in match play.
I read golf tech blogs, even if I ignore it.
I love fast and firm fairways, but love fixing a ballmark.
I hate inconsistent bunkers, don't care if that is how it was
Sometimes I don't get it.  I have played "great" courses that I felt were barely better than my local muni, no idea why so much difference in opinion out there.(Disclaimer: Each time this has happened I will admit that the other course was better, just didn't know it was that much better)

and finally, I would take a bad course with beer and friends over a D9.

[John Moore II]

So, I looked through my old posts the other day, and I ran across a thread like this from my first two weeks here. My answers are remarkably similar from 3 years ago as odd as that may seem (although I can articulate what I try to say better these days)

So I'm pretty new to this site, but I will give my opinions of things..
-I LIKE TOM FAZIO'S WORK! I think mostly they are fine golf courses that present great challenges and are quire pleasing to my tastes.
-If you wonder about Rees Jones, take a look at Bryan Park (CHampions) in Greensboro, NC. One of the Top 5 best Public Access courses I have ever played.
-Jack Nicklaus does high quality work as well in my view.
-Unlike some people on this site seem to speak about, I do not think that all courses should be designed in the mold of Sand Hills, Pacific Dunes and Chambers Bay. They work where they are and might look incredibly stupid in other locales.
-Augusta National, with all the changes is still an incredible golf course, one that I think just about everyone on this site would go to great lengths to play.
-I may have other opinions and just can't specify them at this time, if I come up with anymore, be assured they will be voiced.

I can say now that I really dislike playing in the wind, its just not fun for me anymore.
I also fully agree with an above post that I really enjoy multi-tiered greens where the tiers are very small and pan flat, allowing the player a very easy putt after a well executed shot.
I enjoy long golf courses
And finally, I don't think any architects are inherently better than others. While Mr Doak has designed some phenomenal courses, he has also been blessed with some incredible sites, better sites than most have ever seen. I wonder what Tom Fazio or Rees Jones would have done on a similar site with limited restraints?

[Mike_Trenham]

I am a sucker for rich guy clubs with tiny or run down clubhouses.

[Thomas McQuillan]

I love parkland and tree lined courses, think the occassional narrow faitway or long hole is ok and almost religeously use my lob-wedge around the greens, even on links courses

[Anthony Gray]

  I love a short par 3.No more than 110.

  Anthony

[Phil Benedict]

I enjoy playing with the modern ball and driver.

[Mike Hendren]

Runway tees are the bees' knees.

[Garland Bayley]

...I wonder what Tom Fazio or Rees Jones would have done on a similar site with limited restraints?

For Rees, it would be Sandpines, Forence, OR

[Richard Choi]

I don't follow rules of golf to the letter outside of tournament golf.

[Scott_Burroughs]

I prefer flat greens tilted back to front

 
I love smilies.

[PThomas]

a cute beverage cart girl with a southern accent could make me do almost anything

[Don_Mahaffey]

I like some domestic beer.

I'd rather play a hard scrabble muni with a group of guys I don't know then listen to a member wax poetically about what "Donald" was thinking when he was sketching out this fore bunker.

I think its OK if the architect isn’t around every day during construction.

I think it’s OK to like a golf hole while having no idea what the designer was thinking.

You can have all the perfect grass in the world, fescue, bent…but there is nothing like the feeling of hitting a pure shot with my 30 year old staff blades off of good old west Texas hard pan.  

[JESII]

I like holes that I birdie...

and courses that I play well...





I also like holes that I can't par...

but rarely like a course that I can't play well

[JMEvensky]

I'm into cart paths--the more asphalt near playing areas,the better.

I love pimped out carts--chrome grills,spinners,CD players,etc.

I admire guys with staff-size golf bags--name embroidered on the front and bag tags from every resort in Florida.

[Chip Gaskins]

I hit driver on every par 4 & par 5, strategy be damned.

I don't have a handicap, what is a GIHN anyway?

I don't understand what slope or rating for a golf course is, nor do I care.

I have a pretty good golf course comb collection!

I just recently switch to modern irons (no more Maxfli Revolution circa 1992 for me) and really love them...hey, hitting the ball straighter is just more fun to me than hitting it sideways.

I think Mayacama and Turnberry are great golf courses and don't see the genius in Crystal Downs or Maidstone.

Whew, now I need a beer....