What I need to measure is, which people would show for top-shelf golf courses only, and which would show for the camaraderie, regardless of golf course...
I've always been enamored of the term movable feast, and I could envision this as something in Erie one year, Buffalo another, Cleveland another, Pittsburgh another, Bradford another. Three of the sites have a large amount of courses. One has a medium amount. One has a small amount.
On the island where I live, we have a neat, Desmond Muirhead club that we might be able to access. North of Niagara Falls is a post-Chamber Bay, RTJ2 course with a lot of chops. Those two would make a nice pair. There are easily eight pairs of proximate, accessible courses in Buffalo. I suspect it is the same in Pittsburgh and Cleveland.