Golf question
 

So , after watching the Masters this afternoon I have a question. If you could blink your eyes and play any golf course in the world, what would you choose? It’s very hard for me to choose anything but Augusta National, although I’d also love to play Pebble Beach or the Old Course at St. Andrew’s. I’ve had the good fortune to play many great tracks, including The County Club in Boookline, Winged Foot, Shinnecock, Beth Page Black, The Ocean course on Kiawah Island (three times), and many rounds at the TPC at River Highlands. Of those, the Ocean Course was my favorite. But dam, how could any golfer possibly not choose Augusta National, unless they are lucky enough to have already played it?

Augusta National wouldn't make my Top 10, St. Andrews wouldn't make my Top 100.

If someone designed St. Andrews today, he'd be laughed out of the golf business.

Once you've played the #1 in the world, I think your priorities change.

So, what would your top 10 be, and what courses starter shack is in the picture?

RCD (played it. I'm standing at the Starter's Shack)
Royal Melbourne
Cabot Cliffs (probably playing it this summer)
Ballybunion (played it)
Royal Birkdale
Lahinch (played it)
Banff Springs
Old Head (played it. Average course, spectacular site)
Pine Valley
Waterville (played it)

Spyglass should in there, somewhere.

I guess you weren’t able to get tickets either!

turtle mound

Augusta National & The Masters, is golf's ultimate triumph of image/style over substance.

Thanks for the daydream but…I think the key word here is ‘play’. Yes, I have all the equipment but I am closer to chasing a ball around a green pasture than playing.

Pebble Beach Links, and I did with my son.

Valhalla Golf Club is memorable each and every round.

Will let you know about Augusta after we get to walk around, after we win the lottery tickets. . probably won't be happening.

As far as best courses to play, most are in England/Ireland for the history and the natural beauty
We play for fun and the awe of natural ocean side / designed beauty mostly.

St Andrews is number 1, old Course, we have played the Eden course, the youngest
Old Head, Ireland, for the view. . we have played, not good enough to worry about the difficulty, but breathtakingly beautiful
Pebble Beach, Spyglass and want to play it.
Plantation Course in Kapalua, we played the Bay course, and was just beautiful, most all Hawaiian courses are great to play for the views, amongst the lava rubble. .

Pinehurst # 2 or TPC Sawgrass or Kiawah Island or Bandon Dunes . . there are just so many great choices. .

Then there is New Zealand and Australia for different types of natural beauty, with their different versions of animals roaming the courses. . .

best post inspiring great wanderlust. . not all who are wandering are lost. . .

Every year a few tickets show up on Augusta website for M T W T. Moving day, and Sunday never hits website. Our youngest with friends tradition travels down to a parent home for couple days and one day at tournament. This was the first year weather changed their plans. But 3 picked up tickets for Wednesday so all was good.

The Village Course at Kapula would be on my list, if it still existed. The Bay course is scenic, but the Village course was amazing. The only time I played it, we had rain on at least 5 holes ... because we were actually in the clouds. I played it 35 or so years ago, with the guy who invented/started Brittania Jeans. If you were going disco'n, they were the jeans to wear in the 80's. John Travolta would be proud.

Life After HP - 4/26 - Kapalua Village Course, Part 1

excellent link Brian, shame that they lost a beautiful Hawaiin course to greed. .

There are some really cool off the beaten path, "relatively cheap" golf courses which we have played for the environment or cheap course challenge, and would play as many times as we could.

Northwood Golf Course, Alister MacKenzie design nestled among huge, ginormous Redwood trees, 9 hole.
St Anne Old Links, next to Royal Lytham, England. . Open Qualifier, pure links style just on the other side of the highway from the shore. . designed in the old days when the coast was undeveloped, appreciated for the age and original links design over 100 years ago.
Old Corkscrew, (no longer cheap) on the Southwest coast of FL, where the panthers live and are seen, beautiful design, behind huge screen fences to keep the panthers off the highways. .

wanderlusting. .

just so many places where TV and pros don't go.

This is list on most golf sites for top 100. Do you keep a want to play, need to play or, what the top courses that aren’t in any golf edition magazine or website.

Personally I enjoy private clubs that a member offers the opportunity to play a course that many will dream, but never achieve. Open to the public isn’t in my wants or needs.