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Charles Lund

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #75 on: May 11, 2018, 01:31:08 AM »
Since 2005:


Washington - 37
Oregon - 15
Idaho - 5
California - 68
Nevada/Utah - 4


Arizona - 22
New Mexico - 3
Michigan - 8
Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota - 10
North Carolina - 5
South Carolina - 13
Georgia - 9
Maine - 1
Hawaii - 7
British Columbia - 3


Ireland - 31
Scotland - 22
England - 7
New Zealand -22
Australia - 45
Spain and Portugal - 20
Norway - 1
Sweden - 5
Japan - 5
Singapore - 1
Hong Kong, China  - 7
Thailand - 6
Vietnam - 3


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Cory Lewis

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #76 on: May 11, 2018, 07:43:23 AM »
Playing #1400 on Sunday
Instagram: @2000golfcourses
http://2000golfcourses.blogspot.com

Ira Fishman

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #77 on: May 11, 2018, 07:45:45 AM »
I am a piker at approximately 145, but I will answer the OP questions that most of those who revived a fun thread yesterday did not:


Best:  Cypress Point
Favorite:  Lahinch
Best Value:  Plum Tree National (NLE)
Surprise Good: The Island Club
Surprise Bad: Kapalua Plantation
Final Round:  For emotional reasons tie between Skokie Playfield (countless rounds with my Father and his friends) and Broadmoor East (site of Honeymoon and 25th Anniversary Celebration).  For golf reasons:  TOC (have never played it and certainly hope to do so even if it is my last round).


The thread besides being fun raises the point that many folks no longer post.  I have been annoying you all for only 18 months.  I wish I had discovered GCA when some of the lapsed posters were active.


Ira

Jeff Schley

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #78 on: May 11, 2018, 08:15:14 AM »
Don't keep track, but if I had to guess maybe 150-200.
"To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice your gifts."
- Steve Prefontaine

Tony_Muldoon

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #79 on: May 11, 2018, 08:25:55 AM »
Since 2005:


Washington - 37
Oregon - 15
Idaho - 5
California - 68
Nevada/Utah - 4


Arizona - 22
New Mexico - 3
Michigan - 8
Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota - 10
North Carolina - 5
South Carolina - 13
Georgia - 9
Maine - 1
Hawaii - 7
British Columbia - 3


Ireland - 31
Scotland - 22
England - 7
New Zealand -22
Australia - 45
Spain and Portugal - 20
Norway - 1
Sweden - 5
Japan - 5
Singapore - 1
Hong Kong, China  - 7
Thailand - 6
Vietnam - 3


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Charles did you take up the game in 2005 or just recording courses?


 Approx 300 since then. Impressive.




I have 210 in 7 countries (3 continents), since stating in 2000.
Let's make GCA grate again!

John McCarthy

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #80 on: May 11, 2018, 08:43:00 AM »
Never kept track but probably in 150 range. 


I too miss Plum Tree National.  A great Joe Lee.  May be the best small locker room I ever saw.  It took about 10 plays to figure out that while it looked like the whole course was on a bank to the west the low spot on the course was a pond on the 10rh hole and everything broke to it.
The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.
 PG Wodehouse

Edward Glidewell

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #81 on: May 11, 2018, 10:01:01 AM »
I think I've played around 140, but the majority of them have probably been in the Doak 2-4 range.


Best:  Dormie Club or Mid Pines? Maybe?


Favorite:  Old Tabby Links or Caledonia


Best Value:  I honestly have no idea here because I don't really remember what I paid to play most places. Maybe The Frog?


Surprise Good: Myrtle Beach National King's North or Achasta


Surprise Bad: Capital City Club Brookhaven (not that it was a terrible course; I was just expecting something much better[size=78%])[/size]


Final Round:  Out of courses I've actually played, probably Sedgefield Ross just because it's where I've played the most rounds, almost all with my father. If I could pick anywhere in the world, I think I'd go with Augusta National.

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Mark Saltzman

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #82 on: May 11, 2018, 10:12:51 AM »
Up to 1143.  Most are in Ontario (262) and Florida (213)... still quite a few in each place I want to play!

Brad Tufts

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #83 on: May 11, 2018, 10:36:53 AM »
Looks like I've added 98 in the three plus years since my last post in October 2014, I'm up to 771.  15 of the additions are international, mostly Canada and a few Ireland.  83 of the new-to-me courses are in the US.  I think hitting 800 is a good goal for 2018, should be able to do it!

As a twist, here's a list of the NLE courses I've played:
Aetna Springs, CA
Cougar Canyon, CO
Boca Raton Executive CC, FL
Diamondback GC, FL
Eagle Pines at Disney, FL
Grenelefe West, FL
Marriott Grande Pines, FL
Sugarloaf Mountain, FL
Longshadow, GA
Kauai Lagoons Mokihana, HI (remants still exist in the form of practice holes)
Kona CC (Alii), HI
Wolf Run, IN
Beechtree, MD
Colonial GC, MA
Glen Ellen, MA (pending)
Lakeview, MA
Quail Ridge, MA (the back nine was closed, 9 holes now)
Winchendon School GC, MA (a Ross!)
Tallgrass, NY
Marsh Harbour, NC
The Pit, NC
Valley Forge, PA
Riddell's Bay, Bermuda



So I jump ship in Hong Kong....

John Kavanaugh

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #84 on: May 11, 2018, 10:58:28 AM »
I'm sitting on a bench enjoying a cigar at the first course I ever played 50 years ago this month.

C. Sturges

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #85 on: May 11, 2018, 11:05:25 AM »
Since Cory Lewis posted about playing 1000 courses in ten years, I have tried to keep up.  Unfortunately so far I have not been able to play 100 courses a year.  In the last six years I have played 496 new courses.   Many of these have been great courses in many countries, but the large majority are Mom and Pop courses in the great state of Ohio.
The Cleveland Plane Dealer posts a golf guide each year and I have played all those courses.  I have also played many past courses that have since been abandoned.  Some of these courses it is extremely sad they are no longer in play.


Always up for a game!  Hopefully I will get to 100 courses played in a year!
Thanks for giving me more motivation to get out there and I hope to play with more people from GCA!
chris

C. Sturges

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #86 on: May 11, 2018, 11:11:42 AM »
Mr Kavanaugh,


I challenge you to a Buddy Up game of golf this year!  Your area, my area, or a to be determined!!!


I hope you except!


chris

Steve Fekety

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #87 on: May 11, 2018, 11:49:45 AM »
I am stuck at 298, but will breaking the 300 barrier in two weeks in Kansas City. 


Best:  Who am I to say
Favorite:  Pasatiempo
Best Value:  Back in my college days, Old Works was a steal at $24
Best surprise:  Rustic Canyon
Worst surprise:  The Ritz Carlton Dove Mountain
Final Round:  Would love to see Pebble one more time.


My list of NLE:
Beartooth Elks Club (sand greens), MT - my first experience on a golf course, age 5.
Orenco Woods, OR
Northgate Golf Club, NV
Horseshoe Bend, WY
The old Kananaskis Mt Kidd Course, AB


John Kavanaugh

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #88 on: May 11, 2018, 12:32:11 PM »
Mr Kavanaugh,


I challenge you to a Buddy Up game of golf this year!  Your area, my area, or a to be determined!!!


I hope you except!


chris


Be careful what you ask for. My regular game at Victoria National could always use a fourth.




Charles Lund

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #89 on: May 11, 2018, 12:44:59 PM »
[quote au


Charles did you take up the game in 2005 or just recording courses?


 Approx 300 since then. Impressive.




I have 210 in 7 countries (3 continents), since stating in 2000.



Tony,


I actually played the short nine at Jefferson Park Municipal in Seattle around 1957 or 1958.  My first time on a full length course was across the street in 1959 at age 12.  It was a long day. :)


I played quite a bit for a couple of summers and then was required to work, got my driver's license, and adolescence kicked in, followed by undergraduate and graduate school.  I played a lot between 1978 and 1982, but ended up recognizing I needed to focus on other priorities, so I stopped playing for close to 20 years.  When I started playing again around 2000, I found that there were new public courses near Seattle where I lived.  My renewed interest led me to play more and get a condo in San Diego for shorter golf getaways during winter months.  I spent more time in San Diego, worked less, and started doing solo road trips in California and the Southwest.  I spent some miles accumulated for a flight to New Zealand in late 2007 for a month and did a side trip to Australia.


I retired fully in late 2008.  I just returned from my 37th overseas trip, having spent close to two and a half years overseas, mostly on golf related trips.


I have a hard time with what was the best course.  I have played about 30 of the best 100 courses outside the U.S.


My favorites have to be at the club I am a member of in Australia on the Mornington Peninsula and another where I am a member at on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal.  I've been to Australia 13 times and Ireland 11 times.  I think the Mornington Peninsula and County Donegal represent excellent value and get overlooked by visitors to either Australia or Ireland who are doing their one trip of a lifetime.  I was fortunate to have two weeks in Australia on my first trip and to find the Mornington Peninsula via an Australia golf website.  I did a five week loop half loop trip to Ireland  in the spring of 2009.  I played 27 rounds on 23 different courses.  I have been to Donegal on every trip to Ireland.


For me, the idea of a favorite merges with value.  Favorites are the places I go back to over and over.


As a teenager, I played Fircrest Golf Club in Tacoma at the 1962 PNGA Junior Championship over several days.  In 1979, I went to Eugene Golf Club and played in the adult version of the same tournament.  Those experiences clarified the difference between upper tier courses and the public venues here in the  Pacific Northwest.  I played at Inglewood CC for about three years from 1979 to 1982 and got to play a lot of the private courses around Seattle.  I was happy to find that there were many quality public courses outside of Seattle by 2000.


In the next year, I have four trips lined up, with two involving Ireland and two involving Australia.  On one of the Australia trips, I will travel on the way through Japan and Hong Kong and stay over in Hong Kong on the way back.


I enjoy playing new courses and have some vague notions of what I would like to play for the first time if the opportunity presented.  There are many I would love to play but they are basically inaccessible.


Hope all is well with you.  We communicated some about playing golf if I were to be in the London area.  I was looking at a side trip to England in June of this year, but a friend from Australia is meeting me in Donegal.  I will be back in Ireland for two weeks in mid-September.


Charles

Tom Allen

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #90 on: May 11, 2018, 12:54:39 PM »
Courses Played: 169 (4 countries)
Best Course:
  Pine Valley
Most Fun:  Threetops, Michigan (a nine-hole par 3 course).  Had an absolute blast on a buddy trip.
Best Value:  Weatherwax, Middletown, Ohio (a muni NLE).  Provided great fun and challenge at a great price for many locals growing up, while it lasted.
Good Surprise:  Pebble.  Not much of a "surprise," but I loved the sounds of waves crashing and seagulls chirping.  It is not a part of the course, but man did it add to the experience.
Bad Surprise:  None, really.  It was still golf: better than a day at the office.
My Last Round: TOC

My own addition to this list:  a "To Do" list:  CPC, AGNC, Scotland trip, Ireland trip, Australia trip.

Jim Tang

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #91 on: May 11, 2018, 03:30:26 PM »

Total Course Played:  274 in 6 countries over 35 years

Best Course - Royal County Down
Favorite - Royal Dornoch.  Such a glorious setting for golf that is pure, exhilarating, fun.
Best Value - Merion - East
Biggest Surprise (eye opening) - Kingsley Club was played at the beginning of my GCA enlightenment and has proven to be one of the three or four courses that permanently altered how I think about golf and golf course architecture.
Biggest Surprise (disappointing) - Erin Hills.  What could have been.
Final Round - Cypress Point with my brother because neither of us have seen it.
« Last Edit: May 11, 2018, 03:33:28 PM by Jim Tang »

Mike Hendren

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #92 on: May 11, 2018, 06:07:36 PM »
From memory, I came up with a surprising 298.  Perhaps only a dozen or so newbies in the past three years.   

Best Course:  Shinnecock Hills
Favorite Course:  The Old Course
Best Value:  LuLu
Biggest Surprise - Favorable:  Moraine
Biggest Surprise - Less Favorable:  Two top 50 moderns according to Golfweek.  I'll leave it at that.
Final Round:  Rolling Hills CC - Ripley, Tennessee



 What do you think for #300?

Pinehurst #2
Pinehurst #1
Dormie Club
Cabot Cliffs
Cabot Trails
Highland Links
Yale
Gamble Sands

I'm thinking Yale.

Bogey
« Last Edit: May 11, 2018, 10:32:59 PM by Michael H »
Two Corinthians walk into a bar ....

Sean_A

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #93 on: May 11, 2018, 07:42:59 PM »
Updated from 2014

How many courses have you played

I don't know....I still don't know, but I think in 12 countries.

What is the best course you've played

Always a tough question, but for a while my story has been Merion East. I now believe the best course I played is a toss up between North Berwick and Pinehurst 2.

What is your favourite course - not the same question!

North Berwick West Links displaced Kington this year.  Still North Berwick.

What is the best value course you've played - on the normal visitor's green fee.

Kington.  Still Kington.

What was the biggest surprise both good and bad.

On the good side of the ledger, Cleeve Cloud Welshpool.  On the bad side of the ledger, Royal Lytham. Rosapenna Sandy Hills.

If you were told you could play only one more round of golf where would it be and why?

There is likely a different answer every time the question is asked, but today I would say Augusta National simply because I can't think of a better way to go out. I see no reason to change my answer.

Ciao
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New plays planned for 2024: Nothing

Mark Chaplin

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #94 on: May 12, 2018, 04:22:32 AM »
Number played; 200+
Highest rated; Pine Valley
Favourite; National Golf Links/TOC
Best Value; no idea, maybe Aldeburgh
Biggest surprise; good Littlestone, indifferent Winged Foot West
Last round; Royal Cinque Ports
Cave Nil Vino

Jake Marvin

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #95 on: May 12, 2018, 09:59:35 PM »
Courses played: 125
Best: Sutton Bay Old (NLE)
Favorite: Mid Pines/Lawsonia
Best Value: Once played Cedar Crest in Dallas at a $3 junior rate... those were the days
Biggest Surprises: good, Tatanka; less so, Blackwolf
Last Round: Why decide now?

Duncan Cheslett

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #96 on: May 13, 2018, 03:35:23 AM »
A late-comer to golf, I've only been playing since my 50th birthday in 2000


Prompted by this thread, I just spent an interesting half hour putting all my courses played on a spreadsheet with the help of Google Maps to remind me of my journeys around the north of England.


Interestingly, I'm stuck on 97!


I'll undoubtedly break the 100 barrier this month!


Best Course - Silloth, Formby, Ganton, Alwoodley, Holinwell  -  take your pick. I can't split them.


Favourite  -   Reddish Vale


Best Value -  Silloth


Best surprise  -  Silloth.  I'd heard it was good value - I was unprepared for how good a course it is!


Worst surprise. - Sutton Coldfield. I'd heard that it was a great heathland track. It isn't.


Last Round - Reddish Vale



Andrew Hastie

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #97 on: May 13, 2018, 04:44:04 PM »
Total number of courses: 336
Starting with Lane Cove Golf Club in Sydney (1983), and the last new course was Royal North Devon (Nov 2017)


Best Course: Cypress Point


Favourite: Friars Head


Best Value: Hard to say being a Pro, don't normally pay! Worst Value: Valderrama


Best Surprise: Plainfield


Worst Surprise: Valderrama


Last Round: St Enodoc (There are so many great courses, but this one is fresh in the mind)

MCirba

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #98 on: May 13, 2018, 06:06:45 PM »
I'm sitting on a bench enjoying a cigar at the first course I ever played 50 years ago this month.
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+1
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MCirba

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Re: How many courses have you played?
« Reply #99 on: May 13, 2018, 06:15:05 PM »
Brad Tufts and I have played 7 of the same NLE's. 


That might be worthy of a new thread.
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