Top 5 Courses You Have Played

[laguna79]

Royal Melbourne west course
Kingston Heath
Barnbougle Dunes
Lost Farm
Turtle point - Laguna keys ( Sadly no longer in business )

[glenametz]

Oak Hill CC-East Course
Monroe Golf Club
Irondequiot CC
Both We-Ko-Pa's

[KevCarter]

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- Troon North Pinnacle, Scottsdale
- We-ko-pa, Scottsdale
- Wolf Creek
- Pebble Beach
- Anfi Tauro (Gran Canaria, Cannary Island)*

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Wow
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No Kidding!!!

[NigelTufnel11]

Top Public (if you're going by Golf Digest's 100 Greatest)

Bandon Dunes
Pebble Beach
Pacific Dunes
Pinehurst #2
Spyglass Hill

Private

Cypress Point
Oakmont
Riviera
Olympic (Lake)
San Francisco

[venand]

This is probably one of my favorite topics to read. Like most, I will only dream of playing some of those top notch courses you guys have experienced.

Top 5 so far at age 29

The Links of Spanish Bay, CA
Hazeltine National GC, MN (caddied there for 3 years)
Mauna Kea, HI
Keystone River GC, CO
The White Witch, Jamaica

Looking to slot Torrey Pines South in here after May

[KevCarter]

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1-Metropolitan, Melbourne Australia
2 -Concord , Sydney Australia
3- Albany GC Western Australia
4-Castle Hill Sydney Australia
5- Mrtyleford Vic Australia
Sorry never played golf Overseas.
How sad.
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Man, you don't need to play overseas when you get to play wonderful courses like those. Cheers!

[SilverBullets]

Top 5 for me would be:

1. Cypress Point
2. Pebble
3. Muirfield Village
4. Kapalua plantation
5. Double Eagle
5b. Forest Dunes (had to throw this on here because it's probably my favorite layout to play just because it's a fun course).

I have tee times at Whistling Straits - Striats, Erin Hills, Arcadia Bluffs and The Ocean Course this year so hopefully this list change a little.

[TBD203]

1.) Pine Valley
2.) World Woods Pine Barrens/Rolling Oaks
3.) Fox Hopyard
4.) Fox Hollow
5.) Crumpin Fox

(Working on this list, it goes downhill so so quickly after 1)

[RTP419]

I never thought a topic I started seven and a half years ago would still be going strong (sort of) after all this time.

New Top Five for me:

Bethpage Black
Lake of Isles
Sankaty Head GC
Barefoot Dye
Pinehills - Jones

[PGood]

Mine:

Pinehurst #4
Pinehurst #7
Pine Needles
WeKoPa
Bay Harbor

[jasman29]

My top 5 are

Pebble Beach
Pacific Dunes
Bandon Dunes
Los Angeles CC (North)
TPC Sawgrass

[XHoop24]

Love this thread - my top 5 are below. My dad lives in Oakmont PA so we have been lucky enough to play it a few times and my dad recorded a hole in one on number 13.

1. Oakmont
2. Pinehurst #2
3. TPC Scottsdale
4. Pine Needles
5. Bulle Rock

[leerob3]

Old Head
Connemara
Lost Tree
Bethpage Black
Round Hill

[Argonne69]

Hmmm, I've played over 350 courses, so picking 5 is rather tough. I'd have to say (in no particular order):

- Dove Mountain - Best Desert Golf
- Pacific Dunes - Best Links
- Kiawah Island Ocean - Best Ocean Front
- True North - Best Parkland
- Whistling Straits (Straits) - Best within 3 Hours of Chicago :-)

Honorable Mention:

World Woods Pine Barrens
Streamsong Red
Old Macdonald
We-ko-pa (Cholla and Saguaro)
French Lick Dye
Whistling Straits Blackwolf Run

[NIchols1121]

1. BallyBunion
2. Traleé
3. Lahinch
4. Desert Highlands Golf Club
5. WeKoPa

[thechief16]

In no particular order:

Lahinch
Ballybunion
Robert Trent Jones GC (VA)
Baltusrol (Lower)
Pine Needles

Honorable mention
Waterville
BraeBurn CC
The Country Club (MA)
Congressional CC (Blue)
Myopia Hunt Club

[Forty]

Top 5 I've played...

1. The Old Course
2. National Golf Links of America
3. Cypress Point
4. Shinnecock
5. Riviera

[QMany]

National[list]
[*]Sand Hills
[*]Ocean Course - Kiawah
[*]Wildhorse (Gothenburg, NE)
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Local (Kansas and Kansas City area)[list]
[*]Wolf Creek
[*]Colbert Hills
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[deadsolid...shank]

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National[list]
[*]Sand Hills
[*]Ocean Course - Kiawah
[*]Wildhorse (Gothenburg, NE)
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Local (Kansas and Kansas City area)[list]
[*]Wolf Creek
[*]Colbert Hills
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Q, have you played Quarry Oaks in Ashland?

[Mitchell]

In no particular order:
Pinehurst #2
Kiawah (Ocean Course)
C.C. of Ga.
Kapalua (Plantation Course)
Pebble Beach

[CJPenny]

1. Harbour Town, Hilton Head SC
2. Pinehurst #2, Pinehurst NC
3. TPC Boston, Norton MA
4. The Club at Cordillera Summit Course, near Vail CO
5. TPC Scottsdale Champions, Scottsdale AZ

[Forged4ever]

1) The Old Course
2) Pine Valley
3) Kiawah Ocean Course
4) Spy Glass Hill
5) Pebble

I'm not gonna list my honorable mentions, though I will say that based strictly on the track, they could easily be in my top five, however the coolest thing about Kiawah was visualizing that Ryder cup and standing, walking and playing from positions that those men, from both sides, played from when they left it all on that course. I really did get a few chills thinking back and just standing there. Also, Augusta National would have been on this list because I had the opportunity my last summer in college. The private jet down, playing with a friend from our club, who's father was a member and was flying down from Thursday evening-Sunday, for three rounds. Only problem was that I had to leave that Sunday for fall football camp.

I just couldn't swing it because they were playing Sunday and flying back later that afternoon. I was bummed though I figured, WTH, I was 23yo, and my friend was the same, and we had many years to fly back down. Yea, right, lol

It was not to be.

As happens in life, we all graduated, went our own ways to different parts of the country, and things much more pressing than trying to get back to Augusta filled my plate.

So, here I am at 53yo, and the opportunity never presented itself again.

But WTH, I get to play Oakmont at least once a month and Pine every two years, so life ain't that bad


Fairways & Greens My Friends,
Richard

[CHEFMIZ]

Pacific Dunes
Old Mac
Dormie Club
Pinehurst #2
Bethpage Black


Looking at Ocean Course, Chechessee Creek, and Harbour Town this fall.

[QMany]

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Q, have you played Quarry Oaks in Ashland?
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I haven't had a chance to. I would like to. Good track?

[deadsolid...shank]

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Q, have you played Quarry Oaks in Ashland?
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I haven't had a chance to. I would like to. Good track?
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Along with Wild Horse, its my favorite in the state. We were talking with one of our assistant pros after we played today (he played at UNK so was able to get there a few times), he told the other guy we were talking with that next time he's in Omaha he has to skip Champions and play Quarry Oaks because it just an awesome course. The views when you break out of the trees are spectacular, you're way up above the Platte River and on a couple of holes really can look down on it. Most of the holes are pretty isolated, you really see another group.

If you get back there it really is worth the time to play there.

[Cashdollar]

Not sure if it's been mentioned in here... but

Old White TPC - Greenbrier is my favorite course to date. I liked it more than Bethpage Black.

[WolverineGolfer2016]

1. Cypress Point Golf Club
2. Los Angeles Country Club
3. Redtail Golf Club
4. Oakland Hills Country Club
5. Kiawah Ocean Course

[Arizonalefty59]

1) Torrey South
2) Torrey North
3) Forest Highlands Meadows Course (AZ)
4) TPC Summerlin
5) We-Ko-Pa Saguaro Course

[Fourmyle of Ceres]

I was fortunate to play a round at Cypress Point Club years ago. One of the best days of my life, nothing else in golf has been remotely comparable. I'm not saying it's the best course in the world, I'm saying Cypress is in its own category.

Of the other courses I've played, some are more memorable than others, some are better than others. But I can't really pick four more to round out a Top Five. I'm too easy a grader, there are very few courses I wouldn't gladly return to if I had a chance...I fall in love every time!

[highdraw69]

My Top 5 Courses I've Played (Based Strictly on FUN...nothing else, not ranking, not prestige, not conditioning and in no particular order)

Blackwolf Run River Course (unsurpassed beauty in late autumn, tons of risk-reward shots)
Plantation Course at Kapalua (lots of strategy and great vistas)
Pacific Dunes (lots of fun shots if the wind isn't insane)
Kiva Dunes (a hidden gem; lots of fun to play; course can absorb a monsoon in 30 minutes and be perfect)
Legends (My home course in MN -- I love this course and never tire of it; perhaps best set of par 3s on any public track)

HMs
Niorthland CC (Duluth -- if you haven't been here, you've never played greens like these)
Lahinch (a blind par3 ... hit it over the white rock and hope!)
Pine Meadow (Mundelein)
Wilderness (17 amazing holes cut out of the north woods; Tower, MN)
Interlachen (fun shots, a few crazy greens)
Oak Ridge (Hopkins, MN -- I know I said conditioning wouldn't factor...but WOW, i call this the "Augusta" of MN for conditioning)