How many courses have you played?

[Nick Spears]

Total 200+
Best according to rankings Straits/Medinah #3
Favorite Streamsong Red/Rich Harvest <------- I know I know
Value TPC Deere Run $23 twilight
Good surprise The Dunes Course at The Prairie Club (changed everything I thought I liked in a golf course)
Bad surprise Erin Hills I like the course but I feel the property could have given us much better
Final round Cypress Point Club odds are I'll never see the entrance, but this is what I picture golf in heaven to be like

[Brad Hill]

200 courses played, 4 countries, 4 states.
Best Rated - Milwaukee CC
Favorite - Erin Hills
Best Value - Lawsonia Links ($27 middle of the day on the weekend)
Bad Suprise - Troon North Monument
Good Surprise - Peninsula State Park
Course Playing Next - Irish Straits

[Terry Lavin]

Welcome Mr. Hill!

[Tim Leahy]

Near 500 just in Calif. Close to 600 overall.
Best rated: Pebble
Favorite: Olympic Club Lake
Most exclusive: Sherwood
Best deal: Kapalua resort in October unlimited golf on 3 courses(then 1993) including Plantation. 5 nights 6 days room and golf for 2 $999.

[Stewart Abramson]

Courses Played – 700 +
Best Course US – Merion East
Best Course England – Sunningdale Old
Best Course Scotland – Muirfield
Biggest Surprises (Pleasant) exceeded expectations -  Whippoorwill,  Wykagyl, Yale, Dunbar, New Zealand
Biggest Surprise (letdown) less than expected – Spanish Bay, The Country Club (I’d like a second chance, because I think it was me)
Best Bargains – Vista Verde, BP Black, Deltona ($19)
Favorites: Ballyneal, Sleepy Hollow, Garden City
Favourites: The Old Course, Prestwick, most of the English heathland
One more: A Course Called Ireland  If Tom Coyne called it a course, that’s good enough for me. I’ve never been and I’m currently obsessed with planning a trip around the coast from Dublin to Belmullet

[Michael Goldstein]

Played 500+

Best course: Cypress Point
Favourite: The Old Course
Best Value: PBGC or Askernish
Biggest Surprise (Good): Deal(UK), Port Fairy(AUS), LACC(US), Shanqin Bay(CN), Oreti Sands (NZ)
Biggest Surprise (Bad): Congressional?
One More Round: Today, I'd say Royal County Down with my dad

[Jim Tang]

Courses Played: 246
Best Course:  Royal County Down
Most Fun:  Royal Dornoch
Best Value:  Greywalls
Good Surprise:  The Kinsley Club
Bad Surprise:  Erin Hills
One More Round:  Cyprus Point Club

[Chris Pearson]

Courses: 76 or 77
Best: According to rankings, Valhalla (Nicklaus)
Most Fun: The Quarry (Keith Foster)
Best Value: Nevel Meade (Steven R. Smyers), always <$32 for a fun, challenging track
Good Surprise: Roy Kizer (Randolph Russell) and Morris Williams (Leon Howard) municipal courses in Austin, TX. Apparently, munis don't have to suck after all
Bad Surprise: Persimmon Ridge (Arthur Hills), the most tight, penal course I've played, and that doesn't even include the severely contoured greens and numerous hazards. This is more like S&M than golf.
One More Round: Fantasy pick = Cypress Point, Reality pick = Nevel Meade

Clearly, I need to get out more!

[Nigel Islam]

225 which in a normal demographic would be a lot

[Greg Taylor]

Total... 170 odd

Best, ranking wise... CPC
Most fun... Tobacco Rd
Best VFM... Holinwell or Formby
Good Surprise... Whistling Straits
Bad Surprise... Royal Aberdeen
Final Round... it has to be CPC

Ask me tomorrow and I'll probably answer differently...!

[Ed Tilley]

Just driven down to Devon for our annual holiday. Drove past a course that I'd missed off my list - bottom of the pile. Also realised that I'd played Cardigan on a previous October trip so Westward Ho! Is my 100th on Tuesday rather than the Oxfordshire. Pleased that it is the oldest course in England rather than a modern Rees Jones monstrosity - I've caddied at the Oxfordshire but never played it.  Here's to the next 100!

[Rob_Waldron]

Inslee in a stratosphere of his own. Shoot on his last "buddy trip" he played 103 courses.

I am proud to say that I recently passed the 800 courses played mark working hard to reach 1,000.

Needless to say, the majority of my play is in my home States and adjacent States.

Florida   151
PA         135
MD        109
VA          76

PV has always been and will always be my #1. Truly a memorable experience.

[jim_lewis]

# played:  a lot. Many are well known
Best:  Pine Valley
Favorite: #2
Value: ANGC  I actually don't know the cost, but it is far less than most would be happy to pay.
Pleasant surprise: Lakes Entrance (Australia)
Disappointment: Inverness (Scotland)
Worst:  Olde Beau (NC)

[Bill Satterfield]

- Courses played: 502
- Best:  Pine Valley
- Best Test:  Oakmont
- Favorite:  Fishers Island
- Most Fun:  Yale or Tobacco Road
- Best Value:  Creek at Qualchan in Spokane ($25)
- Good Surprise:  Sleepy Hollow Country Club
- Bad Surprise:  First 12 holes at Harbour Town
- Course for my last round:  Probably Cypress Point or Merion East but I'm not ruling out Princeville since I would be in paradise

[Brad Tufts]

673 total...

USA....613 total...home state in Bold...

Alabama-8, Arizona-6, California-38, Colorado-30, Connecticut-12, Delaware-1, Florida-29, Georgia-3, Hawaii-13, Idaho-7, Illinois-7, Indiana-20, Kansas-2, Louisiana-1, Kentucky-2, Maine-32, Maryland-11, Massachusetts-131, Michigan-6, Missouri-14, Montana-2, Nebraska-4, Nevada-8, New Hampshire-23, New Jersey-10, New Mexico-4, New York-48, North Carolina-53, Ohio-1, Oklahoma-5, Oregon-4, Pennsylvania-19, Rhode Island-11, South Carolina-8, Texas-3, Utah-2, US Virgin Islands-1, Vermont-22, Virginia-1, Washington-6, West Virginia-2, Wisconsin-2, Wyoming-1.

International....60 total....Bahamas-1, Barbados-1, Bermuda-6, Canada-4, Curacao-1, Germany-1, Ireland-18, Mexico-3, Scotland-25

[Paul Jones]

300+ Total

9 Different Countries

Best: Pine Valley
Favorite: Cypress Point, Royal Country Down, Sunningdale
Best Test: Shinnecock Hills
Most Fun: National Golf Links of America
Best Value: Wild Horse
Good Surprise: Royal Porthcawl
Bad Surprise: Royal Liverpool
Last Round: Augusta National

[John Foley]

Dont have an accurate count but I'd say the # is in the 200-250 range.

Best: Sand Hills
Favorite: Sand Hills & Kittansett
Best Test: Kiawah Ocean Course
Most Fun: Any par 3 course with a large group playing last man standing
Best Value: Wild Horse & Grand National
Good Surprise: Grand Cypress New & Shelter Harbour
Bad Surprise: Champions Gate
Last Round: Bristol Harbour w/ a gang that got me started

[Pete_Pittock]

536 which is more than all the current members of Congress
Non-US 114
Oregon  207 (all of 'em)
Rest of US 215
(edit-forgot one in GA)
Reply #12 for question answers.

[MCirba]

Slowing down a bit in recent years as I approach age 60, but presently at 1,083 courses played.

I know because as a football and baseball card-collector as a kid, when I started the game a week before my 13th birthday I kept a card from every course I played since.   Not the one I scored on, but a pristine one.

I have them all in a large chest, alphabetical order.   I wish I had kept them chronological but think they got dumped at some point so you do what you can do.

Does that make me OCD? 

[Tom_Doak]

If my spreadsheet for The Confidential Guide is up to date, I have walked 1,560 courses, and played 670 of them, in a lot of countries now.

[Pete_Pittock]

which proves Mike is much smarter than me - I chose to collect bulky golf balls. By the way there was a large pile of scorecards at McBride's CofL.

[Daryl David]

616. All logged, sorted and dated. Thank God for Excel (and Lotus 1-2-3  )

[Jon Heise]

What a lot of belt-notchers ya'll are....


I kid, I kid, you're all my heroes.


I'm at 311!!!!!




- How many courses have you played-  311

- What is the best course you've played- Very likely it's Muirfield, with RCD not far behind.  Both flawless, flawless golf courses.
- What is your favourite course - not the same question! The magical Greywalls in Marquette... Or Cabot Links.  Or either Olympia Fields course.  Not sure.
- What is the best value course you've played - on the normal visitor's green fee. It's been years, but Tanglewood Park in NC.
- What was the biggest surprise both good and bad- Absolutely adore West Bend CC.  On the bad, moving to Chicago and seeing that so many public courses are in this town, but they only exist as rainwater run off collection areas.  *sigh*
- If you were told you could play only one more round of golf where would it be and why - For GCA fanciness, The Old Course.  For pure sentimental reasons, my home course from growing up - Riverview Highlands, MI.

[Sean_A]

- If you were told you could play only one more round of golf where would it be and why - For GCA fanciness, The Old Course.  For pure sentimental reasons, my home course from growing up - Riverview Highlands, MI.

Wait...you are from Downriver?  Which high school/years did you attend? I played Mt Trashmore a ton growing up.

Ciao

[astavrides]

Courses Played: 246
One More Round:  Cyprus Point Club

If that's in the Greek controlled part of the island, and you have an open spot in your foursome, pls let me know.