Sloppy Step Sisters

[John Kavanaugh]

Rustic Canyon with Riviera. Wild Horse with Sand Hills. And perhaps the finest of all, Slope Memorial with Prarie Dunes. An inexpensive public course to be played on the way to a great private, Just like a sloppy step sister, not something you brag about but also just good enough to show to your friends. Any others come to mind?

[Doug Spets]

Aiken Golf Club / Sage Valley or Palmetto

[MCirba]

Cobb's Creek/Merion East  10 minute train ride.

[Stewart Abramson]

Bethpage Black (or Red if you want "sloppier") with NGLA, Shinny or Sebonack


George Wright with the Country Club


Deltona with Isleworth


World Woods with Mountain Lakes

[Stewart Abramson]

Common Ground with Cherry Hills (or Ballyneal if you are going a little further and want a double dip of Doak)

[John Kavanaugh]

Bunker Hill is a fine compliment to Ballyneal. It's the course on the right of the interstate as you get close. Great Veterans Day course as it is affiliated with the VFW. Few bunkers and no hills, named after the famous battle.

[Mike_Trenham]

Shennecossett and Fisher's Island.

[Jason Thurman]

Mid Pines with No. 2. Ravisloe with Beverly/Olympia Fields.


French Lick with Victoria National?

[John Kavanaugh]

Mid Pines and French Lick are no step sisters. I'd go with a couple of old Elks courses, Southern Pines and Vincennes.

[Sean_A]

Rustic Canyon with Riviera. Wild Horse with Sand Hills. And perhaps the finest of all, Slope Memorial with Prarie Dunes. An inexpensive public course to be played on the way to a great private, Just like a sloppy step sister, not something you brag about but also just good enough to show to your friends. Any others come to mind?

This is a tough ask, but a quest well worth seeking.  Its hard to find a truly interesting course near big guns which is cheap as chips. Like you, no way I call Mid-Pines a sloppy step sister...far too expensive far that title.  My options


St Enodoc/Perranporth
Dornoch/Golspie
Burnham Champ/Burnham Channel
Merion/Lederach
Rosses Point/Strandhill


Ciao

[Ronald Montesano]

You couldn't come up with a better metaphor than one that draws a full page of porn references when googled? Sadly, the metaphor you chose is rife with middle-school boy fantasy, the kind that men grow out of. Even sadder, no one else has complained about the choice of thread title.


I would brag about Rustic Canyon, Wild Horse, Mid Pines and every other course that the thread contributors deem a lesser course. I'm not certain what the intent is, something to pass the time or something to heighten the quality of discussion on the site.

[Thomas Dai]

Quite a few top echelon GB&I courses have another lessor spec course, sometimes 9-holes, sometimes a short 18-holes, sometimes called the relief course or even the ladies course, adjacent and most are worth playing. They are usually a lot less expensive than big brother next door.


Cruden Bay would be one example. Indeed the two best holes of the entire 27-28 holes at CB are probably on the St Olaf course. There are some cracking holes on the Holywell course at St Enodoc. The Yellow-9 at
Portmarnock looks wonderful and Formby/Formby Ladies has been very favourably commented on herein on numerous occasions. Many others too.


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[Mark Pritchett]

Marion/Kittansett

[Sean_A]

Quite a few top echelon GB&I courses have another lessor spec course, sometimes 9-holes, sometimes a short 18-holes, sometimes called the relief course or even the ladies course, adjacent and most are worth playing. They are usually a lot less expensive than big brother next door.


Cruden Bay would be one example. Indeed the two best holes of the entire 27-28 holes at CB are probably on the St Olaf course. There are some cracking holes on the Holywell course at St Enodoc. The Yellow-9 at
Portmarnock looks wonderful and Formby/Formby Ladies has been very favourably commented on herein on numerous occasions. Many others too.


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For me, Formby Ladies at £59 is easily too expensive as a sloppy sis-in-law.  Good course for sure, but one to pick up on a deal because its over-priced.


Ciao

[Rob Marshall]

Valley and the Dunluce

[John Kavanaugh]

Cypress Point/Pacific Grove

[BCowan]

Crystal Downs/Champion Hills

Inverness/Ottawa Park

Orchard Lake/Rackham

[Buck Wolter]

Sugarloaf (old course) -- Fun Doak 1 and Kingsley

[David_Tepper]

Sharp Park and Olympic Lake or SFGC or Cal Club or Lake Merced.

[Mike Schott]

Crystal Downs/Champion Hills

Inverness/Ottawa Park

Orchard Lake/Rackham

Rackham would be the step sister that has had a lot of plastic surgery. I-696 did that course no favors. It's a bit further away but how about Rosedale Park?

[Ben Malach]

Banff / Canmore Golf and Curling

[Mark Bourgeois]

Girvan - Turnberry
Sandfield House - Lahinch
Bondi Golf & Diggers Club - New South Wales
Palm Beach GC - Seminole
Anstruther GC - lots...how bout TOC

[Jim Nugent]

John, going back in time a little, two you know pretty well:

Forest Park 18 and SLCC. 

[Terry Lavin]

Ravisloe and Olympia Fields. Rav is a pretty good sloppy sister and falls into this category because of maintenance issues after it went public.

[Buck Wolter]

John, going back in time a little, two you know pretty well:

Forest Park 18 and SLCC.

Normandie would still work with SLCC