[Jeff_Brauer]

An aquaintence of mine recently divorced and remarried - to a childhood/high school girlfriend.  I have heard thats pretty common.  Facebook, et al lets us find old friends and girlfriends easily.

What golf course have you not seen in over a decade that you would want to find and learn about all over again?  When you have done this, do you reconnect, or is it a bit melancholy, and not as good as you remembered?

[Pat Burke]

Hollywood, Deal NJ
I grew up across the street at Deal GC, and was able to play Hollywood on a number of occasions as a kid.

Would love to get back and see it with more "experienced" eyes!

[Scott Warren]

It wasn't a decade later, but I'd become very much enarmoured with NSWGC from 14-25, before I had any coscious interest in architecture or had seen any other great courses.

Three years after my most recent play - having seen some of the world's best courses and having fallen down the GCA rabbit hole in the interim (it feels like a decade!) - I went back yesterday and not only did it live up to my recollections, it exceeded them.

I saw things in a new light in some instances and noticed some things I had previously missed. It may well have more poor holes than most other courses of its ilk, but it also posesses more brilliant golf shots than almost any other golf course I know.

[Mark_F]

It may well have more poor holes than most other courses of its ilk, but it also posesses more brilliant golf shots than almost any other golf course I know.

Anything in particular I should look out for, Scott?

[Dan Kelly]

I can't remember if it was 1999 or 2000, but either way, more than 10  years have passed. How can that be?

Iit was my only trip to Scotland (so far). It was early November. It was not a golf trip. I was with my wife -- and she was understanding enough of my needs to spend half a dozen hours walking along with me (and two local gents) at the Old Course and (with me alone) at North Berwick West.

I would give a lot to renew those acquaintances -- and strike up some others (human beings and golf courses both) in the neighborhood.

[Keith OHalloran]

Cherry Valley Country Club in Garden City, NY. I caddied there as a kid and walked the course hundreds of times. I have not been back in almost 20 years, and in that time, the course has changed, as has my understanding of golf. I would love to go back and take a look from a new perspective.

[Bill_McBride]

Sonoma Golf Club, wine country California.  I played high school golf matches there in the '50s.  As recently as 16 years ago it was public access, about $45 walking, and a lovely walk it is on rolling terrain.  My last round there was in 1994.

In the late 1990's, I think, it was purchased by the Sonoma Mission Inn, a ritzy resort, and today is open to only resort guests and members of the private club with what I heard was a $150,000 membership.

A long lost love.  Reminds me of the rich girl in San Francisco who wouldn't give me the time of day at home after a summer of fun working at Lake Tahoe.........

[Matthew Petersen]

I miss a number of the courses I grew up playing in Colorado, probably none more so than Meadow Hills in Aurora. That was really my "home" course growing up and I played a ton of high school golf there. Haven't played there since at least 2001, though. It's not really my kind of course these days and I probably wouldn't find it to be nearly as difficult as I once did. Still, it's a nostalgia thing.

[jonathan_becker]

Muirfield Village

I haven't played it since high school and I loved it then.  When you're a kid from Ohio it's, "oooohhhh, Nicklaus!"

But given the fact that I've been exposed to a wide variety of gca in the past few years makes me wonder how I'll feel now.  I think I may feel a little different since I have a better idea of what to look for when I play.  Who can say?

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