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JNC Lyon

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #50 on: June 29, 2006, 03:20:59 PM »
Briar's Creek in Charleston, SC.  The course is located off a fairly remote road (River Road) that has to have some of the most impoverished residences anywhere located upon it.  The course does not even have a name sign, just a logo.  The potential visitor has to driven down a dirt path, then turn onto the semi-paved road into the clubhouse.  If I hadn't been very familiar with that area, I never would have found it to take a look.
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Jim Franklin

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #51 on: June 29, 2006, 04:04:35 PM »
Peachtree. I drove past it a few times. It looks like someone's home with a "private drive" sign out front.
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Glenn Spencer

Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #52 on: June 29, 2006, 04:10:50 PM »
Briar's Creek in Charleston, SC.  The course is located off a fairly remote road (River Road) that has to have some of the most impoverished residences anywhere located upon it.  The course does not even have a name sign, just a logo.  The potential visitor has to driven down a dirt path, then turn onto the semi-paved road into the clubhouse.  If I hadn't been very familiar with that area, I never would have found it to take a look.

There is that little stork sign though, I don't know who that is supposed to help. ;D Definitely a contender, it is hard to believe you are there even after finding the entrance.

cary lichtenstein

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #53 on: June 29, 2006, 04:21:32 PM »
There are a bunch of courses with absolutley no signage:

Honors: I drove past it twice and I had perfect directions

McArthur: Been there 3 times and still can't find it

Peachtree: Drove past that too
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Live Jupiter, Fl, was  4 handicap, played top 100 US, top 75 World. Great memories, no longer play, 4 back surgeries. I don't miss a lot of things about golf, life is simpler with out it. I miss my 60 degree wedge shots, don't miss nasty weather, icing, back spasms. Last course I played was Augusta

Matt Dupre

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #54 on: June 29, 2006, 04:36:43 PM »
Kingsley Club - town with a one-light intersection, back road to dirt road to broken down fence.  My wife thought I was driving her to a "Sopranos-like" end  ;D

Scott Coan

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #55 on: June 29, 2006, 06:51:16 PM »
Tough to beat the Chatham Islands Golf Club...

http://www.newzealandnz.co.nz/chatham-islands/

If total isolation and total wilderness excites you, the Chatham Islands may just be the destination you have been searching for. Located east of the South Island, the ‘Chathams’, as they are affectionately known, is approximately a 1 ¾ hour flight from Wellington or Christchurch! The distance that separates the islands from the mainland puts Chatham Islands 45 minutes ahead of standard New Zealand time, and a close look at the international dateline shows that the Chathams are the first to see the light of every new day - a fact that made the islands famous at the time of the new millennium.

With a declining population of just under 700 and an extremely exposed but temperate climate, the Chatham Islands really are the ‘last place on earth’! However, the contrast of rugged coastlines and towering cliffs, volcanic peaks, lagoons and peat bogs, empty beaches, remote farms, wind-stunted vegetation and dense patches of forest makes the Chathams a mysterious and wild adventure.

Chris Kane

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #56 on: June 29, 2006, 06:53:56 PM »
Barnbougle is not difficult to get to - a one-hour flight from Melbourne and another one-hour drive.  

Gary Daughters

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #57 on: June 29, 2006, 07:20:55 PM »
Durness..

Makes Dornoch look like a metropolis.

On Peachtree.. time was you could follow the smell of the Lay's Potato Chip factory next door, but I believe it's now gone.
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Sean Leary

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #58 on: June 29, 2006, 07:27:41 PM »
Ballyneal is incredibly hard to find.  It is about 6 miles on dirt roads with no signage, then a little wood sign with its name. From any sort of paved road, no one would ever know it was there.

James Bennett

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #59 on: June 29, 2006, 07:40:44 PM »
James,

I'm with you on Rosanna - for anyone who has never been there it is a nightmare - I can't think of another course in the world harder to find
The course is getting a lot better though.

Mike

absolutely agree with everything in your post.  The amazing thing about Rosanna is that you are literally in the middle of Melbourne suburbia, not far from the freeway and the dense suburban housing (which surrounds the area on all side, but the feeling of the valley where the course is laid is one of a rural setting.  Honestly, it is the one course I've seen set in the middle of suburbia where you feel you are actually in farmland.  An oasis in the NE of Melbourne, with a very tricky access route!

James B
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Gene Greco

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #60 on: June 29, 2006, 11:19:57 PM »
I believe Mr. Coan to be the winner with Chatham Islands.
"...I don't believe it is impossible to build a modern course as good as Pine Valley.  To me, Sand Hills is just as good as Pine Valley..."    TOM DOAK  November 6th, 2010

Allan Hutton

Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #61 on: June 30, 2006, 11:26:22 AM »
Apparently Tristan da Cunha has a golf course.

The link didn't work so modifying...

Courtesy of the New York Time

"THE on-line equivalent of Mount Everest has been climbed. Tristan da Cunha, where people live farther away from anywhere else than anywhere else, is on the Internet.

For those who don't collect postage stamps or read the Guinness Book of World Records, Tristan da Cunha (pronounced TRIS-ten de KOON-ya) is the remotest inhabited island in the world. Its 38 square miles in the South Atlantic support just under 300 people, all in the community named Edinburgh.


It took the name after Prince Alfred, Victoria's second son and the Duke of Edinburgh, visited the island in 1867.

Not too many others have. Its nearest and better-known neighbor, the island of St. Helena, is 1,449 miles to the north, while Cape Town is 1,725 miles to the east. The main industry on Tristan da Cunha is crayfish fishing, and the vessels that arrive six times a year bring most of the cargo and mail. There is no airport, no hotel and no camping. Most of the shipping lines that take passengers to Tristan make only one stop there per year, and most stops are for three days or fewer. (Fishing vessels from Cape Town stay longer.)

Even Tristao da Cunha, the Portuguese navigator who discovered the island in 1506 and named it after himself, did not stop there.

While Tristan does have a library, a weekly dance, a pub, a cafe, a cricket field and a golf course that shares space with grazing cows, it can still get a little lonely on this very far-flung patch of the British Empire".
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james soper

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #62 on: June 30, 2006, 11:51:40 AM »
-mcarthur (hobe sound) right next to the medalist, but as cary said, easy to miss because no sign exists.
-hideout(naples)- a series of single lane roads in the middle of nowhere
-old memorial(tampa)- on a dead end street
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Gene Greco

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #63 on: June 30, 2006, 11:59:25 AM »
I stand corrected. Mr. Hutton now has the "honor."
"...I don't believe it is impossible to build a modern course as good as Pine Valley.  To me, Sand Hills is just as good as Pine Valley..."    TOM DOAK  November 6th, 2010

Tyler Kearns

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #64 on: June 30, 2006, 01:43:53 PM »
Links of North Dakota is very remote. I think I live in the closest big city (Winnipeg), and it was a 7+ hr. drive down a very lonely highway that delves deep into the vast prairie landscape until you start to wonder if you will ever emerge again.

TK

 

HamiltonBHearst

Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #65 on: June 30, 2006, 08:54:28 PM »


Is this question based solely on commercial jet travel?  I have made Sand Hills in 3.2 door to door. Morning swim at the beach club, followed by an afternoon in Nebraska. ;)

RJ_Daley

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #66 on: June 30, 2006, 11:38:21 PM »
Hammy, would you kick a satchel full of money out the hatch over Clay St in Allouez, the next time you are overhead...


Also, I thought a few of us had posted about the mysterious course in Georgia that a couple of people vouched for to exist.  Then I asked a fellow to post a google map locating it.  All those posts appear to have disappeared.  Not exactly studious golf course architecture contributions, but still.... I've seen more stray comments that that.  Did a food fight break out while I was gone and the posts taken down, or what? :-\
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Daryl "Turboe" Boe

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #67 on: June 30, 2006, 11:49:26 PM »
"Best impossible to get to course, soon to be easy to get to."

Twisted Gun Golf Course - WV
(I can't remember the town name, but look at a map of WV and find an area in southern WV that doesnt have any roads, and that is probably it)

Didnt notice any Matt Ward posts on this thread.  I am guessing he might be the only person on here other than I that was crazy (or dumb, dilligent, stubborn, etc) enough to go to this remote location in WV to play the course.

The course is absolutely in the middle of no where.  In addition to the fact that you have to drive through the set of the film "Deliverance" several times to get to the area of the course.  When I was first there the final several miles of road up to the mountian top golf course were not approved by WV DOT yet and thus not opened.  So you had to drive and park in the parking lot of the coal mine that owns the area, get your clubs on your back, walk over to the guard shack at the coal mine entrance and he radioed to the proshop who would send a guy down in a van to get you.   Then all you had to do was ride in a passenger van over several miles of mining roads that you share with 200ton dumptrucks (yes those are the big ones you see on the Discovery Channel).  I seriously thought I might die on that commute.

After my round I was talking with the pro and he was telling me about all the related development they were going to do up on top of this mountian.  The state of WV was considering building a State Park type resort up there and everything.  When I asked him exactly how many people he thought would actually make the drive to get to that remote part of WV he said, "You see that big cut through the mountians over there?  In 5 years or so that will be the new I-75 coming down from Detroit to Myrtle Beach, and we will have an exit right there just a mile or so from the entrance."  So that will change things a little bit.

I want to go back there sometime and see what that area looks like if/when that finally happens.  My advice is buy some property in that area now.
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TEPaul

Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #68 on: July 01, 2006, 08:26:29 AM »
For a first timer who thinks a course like PVGC is hard to find, it's completely obvious compared to Mt Bruno outside Montreal.

And I'm told Mt Bruno is so private the difficultly of finding it is on purpose.

We went up there to play it in the Lesley Cup a couple of years ago and we stopped at a VW dealer and asked them. A few salesmen said they were sure it was within about a mile of them but they couldn't tell us exactly how to get there. Then we stopped in a flower store and the proprietor told us she'd been there for 30 years and thought it was within a half mile of her but she'd never seen it and wasn't completely sure how to get there.

It did end up being completely hidden at the end of an absolutely nothing dead-end road with no sign or any indication it was in there somewhere.

On the other side of the coin, the most dramatic revelation of a golf course I've ever seen when you come upon it was Old Head. You are bouncing up and down over one hill and the next on a small Irish road and all of a sudden you come over a rise and there the whole place is sticking way out into the sea in front of you.

Every single person in the car shouted at the same time "OH MY GOD!!!"  ;)

wsmorrison

Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #69 on: July 01, 2006, 08:34:08 AM »
Swinley Forest.  We must have driven up and down that road several times before finding the small entrance road into the club.  Neighbors within 1/2 to 1/4 of a mile weren't sure where the club was.  We were sure glad our persistance paid off.  That's one of the great experiences I've had...thanks Agman.

Matt_Ward

Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #70 on: July 01, 2006, 02:16:26 PM »
Turboe:

Many thanks in mentioning Twisted Gun -- helluva of a place to get to -- the next Bond movie could be filmed on the local roads in WV -- one tiny mistake and you are toast.

I believe the name of the town the course is situated is Wharncliffe, WV.

Too bad the course was a major letdown. Great site and tremendous potential. Unfortunately, the powers-that-be went with a "connected" guy who did not deliver the goods.

Once the connection to I-75 is made the "adventure" will be far different than what you and I encountered.

Bill Gayne

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #71 on: July 01, 2006, 06:05:23 PM »
Many courses on active military bases. The courses aren't impossible to access it's just the lines and paperwork since 9/11.

Forrest Richardson

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #72 on: July 01, 2006, 09:07:15 PM »
Myopia is not signed well. That's all I'll say.

Apache Stronghold? Come on...it's 2 hours from the 5th largest city in America, Phoenix. That is hardly out of reach.

Mongocky in Madagascar is probably the most remote.

Our Hideout in Monticello, Utah may qualify for the most remote. I believe Salt lake is 5.5 hours north and the only highway is 191. I am always surprised at how many people have "been throughthere" yet not "been there."

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JMorgan

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Re:What course is the hardest to get to?
« Reply #73 on: July 02, 2006, 10:40:20 AM »
How about the one-hole course at Camp Bonifas, Korea DMZ...   ::)