10 Course Bucket List

[Jon Claydon]

Eastward Ho
Royal County Down
Friars Head
Maidstone
NGLA
Shinnecock
TOC
Fairfield
Pine Valley
Fisher's

[Tom_Doak]

Iona

Is BUDA at Iona a possibility?  That would be awesome.  We might even be a big enough group to get them to mow the greens a couple of times before we arrived!

[John Mayhugh]

Is BUDA at Iona a possibility?  That would be awesome.  We might even be a big enough group to get them to mow the greens a couple of times before we arrived!

I don't know enough about the logistical challenges, but will definitely do a bit of research. I love the idea.

Maybe combine with Ardfin, and encourage everyone to just look at the average cost per day.      (yes, I know the two aren't close to each other)

[Jim Tang]

Dreaming about....


Cypress Point
Pine Valley
Tara Iti
Barnbougle Dunes
Shinnecock Hills
St. Patricks
Cal Club
ANGC
Rock Creek Cattle Co.
Sleepy Hollow
Old Sandwich
Crystal Downs


Have been fortunate to see....


Ballyneal
Friar's Head
Oakmont
Merion
Sand Hills
NGLA


The journey has been a blessing and a joy.

[Thomas Dai]

Is BUDA at Iona a possibility?  That would be awesome.  We might even be a big enough group to get them to mow the greens a couple of times before we arrived!

I don't know enough about the logistical challenges, but will definitely do a bit of research. I love the idea.

Didn’t Buda at Painswick attract media attention?
Might even be the opportunity for on-course commentary of an Iona Buda by a lady called Iona (see SkySports etc).
Atb

[Sean_A]

Iona

Is BUDA at Iona a possibility?  That would be awesome.  We might even be a big enough group to get them to mow the greens a couple of times before we arrived!

But then it wouldn't be Iona. It would be a tricked up presentation of the course.

Ciao

[jeffwarne]

Iona

Is BUDA at Iona a possibility?  That would be awesome.  We might even be a big enough group to get them to mow the greens a couple of times before we arrived!

But then it wouldn't be Iona. It would be a tricked up presentation of the course.

Ciao

Ciao

Hopefully they would provide green reading books..
and everybody coming from the US could bring a suitcase full of crushed quartz so the bunkers were well presented.

[Tom_Doak]

But then it wouldn't be Iona. It would be a tricked up presentation of the course.

They mow it for the Iona Open don't they?


Also, Jeff, I don't think they have any bunkers, so you don't have to worry about BYO sand.

[JHoulihan]

Top 12 USA
Cal Club
Cypress Point
Fishers Island
Friars Head
MPCC - Shore
NGLA
Pine Valley
Prairie Dunes
Rock Creek
Sand Hills
SFGC
Shoreacres


Top 12 International
Ardfin
Ashkernish
Barnbougle
Brora
Cape Wickham
Kilspindie
Machrihanish
North Berwick
Royal Dornoch
Royal Melbourne
Tara Iti
TOC


Highly impressed with Charles Lund 16 trips to Australia.


Excited like many others about travel post vaccination...dates TBD


Justin

[Chris Mavros]

There's just so many I'd like to see before I kick that bucket.  Most are overseas since I've never been over to golf.  Here are some that come to mind:


Royal Melbourne


TOC


RCD


Royal Portrush


North Berwick


Portmarnock


Sunningdale Old


West Sussex


St. Enodoc


Seminole


Essex County


LACC North


Cabot (both)


Highland Links


Jasper Park


Banff

[Ash Towe]

Hope to play:
Tara Iti 2
Tara Iti 3
2 new courses in Tasmania
North Berwick
Dumbarnie
Ardfin
Morfontaine
Shoreacres
The Lido
I can see the top 4 being achieved. The bottom 6 highly unlikely.


5 achieved:
Cypress
Ballybunion
Muirfield
Shinnecock
Royal Dornoch

[Sean_A]

But then it wouldn't be Iona. It would be a tricked up presentation of the course.

They mow it for the Iona Open don't they?

Are you that special?

Ciao

[Garland Bayley]

...
I'd love to have already have played every course, but my name isn't Paul Rudovsky. 
...

Heck, even I've played two on his bucket list, and I don't play anywhere.

[Richard Fisher]

My GB bucket remains firmly centred around Sunningdale (both Old and New), although Lytham, Birkdale, Turnberry, Western Gailes and Cruden Bay are all clear gaps too as is Addington inland. Ireland is a massive lacuna, with the  distinguished exceptions of all three Portrushes (although I haven't seen the new holes in the flesh), Portstewart and Dollymount. So RCD, Portmarnock, Lahinch, Ballybunion, County Sligo and County Louth would all be on the list, as would Ashburnham, Prestatyn, North Wales, Tenby and (of course!) Welshpool in the principality.


As for a Top Five achieved, leaving out the current Open rota then Prestwick, Westward Ho!, Alwoodley, Macrihanish and Brancaster will always loom very large, as will (to cheat) Silloth, Deal, Formby (Men's and Ladies) and Rye.

[Jay Mickle]

I recall a Peanuts quote that went “everywhere I go, there I am”  when it  comes to golf it seems that my view is  “everywhere I look, there I want to play”.  At 75 I now more often go where I find friends and then look for golf.
There is so much great golf out there that I want see or see again. I hope to meet some of you there.

[JohnVDB]

I recall a Peanuts quote that went “everywhere I go, there I am”  when it  comes to golf it seems that my view is  “everywhere I look, there I want to play”.  At 75 I now more often go where I find friends and then look for golf.
There is so much great golf out there that want see or see again. I hope to meet some of you there.

Very well said Jay.  At 68 I’m feeling the same way.  I just enjoy playing and if it is a special course I haven’t played and I’m with friends (even ones I just made on the first tee) it is that much better.

[MCirba]

I recall a Peanuts quote that went “everywhere I go, there I am”  when it  comes to golf it seems that my view is  “everywhere I look, there I want to play”.  At 75 I now more often go where I find friends and then look for golf.
There is so much great golf out there that want see or see again. I hope to meet some of you there.

Jay,

That's a great perspective and I feel similarly.   I'd only add that as I approach age 63 having played 1,165 courses to date, many of them very special places I never dreamed would be possible for a lower-middle class kid whose dad's dad died in the mines when my father was only six weeks old, I would paraphrase Chico Escuela and say "golf has been berry, berry good to me."

Somewhat oddly, these days when seeking out new courses I find myself mostly interested in finding something with historical interest as well as ratty old munis, par three courses, ancient nine-holers, and returning to places I played as a kid.   Truth be told, as I celebrate my 50th year of playing golf this coming July, I'm pleased to report that I'm just as excited to step on the first tee of any course I've never played before as I did when I was a kid, only now tempered with the reality that some courses will remain only distant dreams.   That's ok.  I'm a very fortunate and grateful guy.

[Tom_Doak]

But then it wouldn't be Iona. It would be a tricked up presentation of the course.

They mow it for the Iona Open don't they?

Are you that special?

Ciao

I was thinking they might mow it for a large group who paid for it.

[Sean_A]

But then it wouldn't be Iona. It would be a tricked up presentation of the course.

They mow it for the Iona Open don't they?

Are you that special?

Ciao

I was thinking they might mow it for a large group who paid for it.

It was a joke Tom. Judging by pix, Iona looks unusually hairy.

Ciao

[David Bowen]

Mowing at Iona comes with consequences: more dung to navigate and from which too extricate.

[Chuck Glowacki]

Since anything over a 1 hour drive is geographically undesirable to me, I am pretty much limited to Suffolk County, NY.


Southampton Golf Club
West Hampton CC
Southward Ho CC
Fisher’s Island GC
Shinnecock Hills GC
Laurel Links CC
Bethpage Red (Nassau County but close enough)
Baiting Hollow GC
Long Island GC
Quogue Field Club
Hay Harbor Club


Going to Fisher’s would involve a trip on my nephew’s boat with a stop for fishing.  A perfect day!

[Stewart Abramson]

My immediate bucket list is to re-schedule the trip I had to cancel last summer to play
Royal Aberdeen
Cruden Bay
Fraserburgh
Castle Stuart
Nairn
Royal Dornoch
Brora
Moray
Murcar


My U.S. Bucket list is


The Creek Club
Dismal River
Fenway
Glens Falls
Mountain Lake
Mountain Ridge
NGLA
Ridgewood
Sandhills
Seminole
Shinnecock

[Tim Martin]

I guess it’s a sign of the times that in a thread rife with access opportunities I see no real attempts at same. There could be something so subliminally ingenious that I missed it but I don’t think so. COVID-19 hasn’t been kind to the access play.

[MCirba]

Rather than provide such a vague answer as my first attempt, perhaps I can answer this easier if I just name ten courses I intend to try to play this year.

Prout's Neck
Castine
Copake
Kahkwa
Glens Falls
Knollwood
Apawamis
Stafford
Grover Cleveland
Bald Peak Colony or Hooper

[Walker Thomas]

Hey everyone I am very new to this site too. Happy to be a part of it. I am a student at Auburn University from Tampa, FL.


My bucket list would be something like this:
NGLA
Garden City
Maidstone
Friars Head
Shoreacres
Seminole
Crystal Downs
SFGC
LACC
Shinnecock
Peachtree
Prairie Dunes


A few favorites of mine:
Palmetto
Chicago
Mountain Lake
Honors Course