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In the new Golf Digest there is a list of the 50 toughest courses in USA.

I've played two of them, La Purisima (La Pirana) and Stadium Course PGA West. When the wind blows La Purisma is tougher. I'd like to get on those other tracks, at least when you play a real tough course you have an excuse if you have a tough round.

Check your GD to see the courses and what are your comments?

What are the toughest courses you have played?

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I have played TPC Sawgrass and The Shattuck. On the schedule for the next month is Tot Hill Farm in NC.

The Shattuck was probably the hardest course I have ever played. There is no forgiveness and plenty of red stakes and split fairways. Sawgrass was tough too but we played it right after the Players.
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#10 - Tobacco Road
#16 - Royal New Kent
#24 - Spyglass Hill
#26 - PB Dye
#32 - Pinehurst #2
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3-Wood: Mizuno MP-001, 13°, Harrison Striper Titanium
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Pinehurst #2
The Black but my personal nemisiss is Rivers Edge which I think is a 150 slope from the back tees it is in North Carolina closer to myrtle,Boliva I think is the town.

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FT-15 degree 3 wood
Fussion Hybrids #2&4
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I played #18 The Bear at Grand Traverse Resort in Acme, Michigan.

It's a brutal Nicklaus design with the winds whipping off of Lake Michigan and small plateau greens.

My favorite hole was 18 with the split fairway. Go to the right for the long hitter and cut off some of the length on the approach over water.

What's in my bag
Driver: Taylor Made R7 425 9.5 degrees UST Proforce 65 shaft
3 Wood: Taylor Made V Steel 15 degrees
Taylor Made Rescue Dual 22 degrees (UST IROD shaft)
Irons: Mizuno MP-67 (bent 1 degree upright)Gap Wedge: Mizuno R Series Black Nickle 52 Sand Wedge: Mizuno R Series Black Nickle...

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tartanjack Established Member

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I've been lucky to play six of them:
Kiawah Ocean
Bethpage Black
Winged Foot West
Concord Monster
Crystal Springs
Stone Harbor

The last three in that list can't hold a candle to the first three.

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J.P. Well Established Member

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Let’s see,

4 PGA West Stadium LaQuinta, Ca
31 Wolf Creek Mesquite, NV
33La Purisima, Lompoc, Ca


No question that PGA West was most difficult. Dye is one of the few designers that will put trouble IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FAIRWAY. Be it a mountain of 20 or 30 feet or moguls a skier would be proud of, he does it.

Wolf Creek is simply majestic. Teeing off a few hundred feet above the fairway with sweeping desert vistas etc. . . distance control can be a bit hard.

La Purisima is sea level, long, and windy. It has hosted Q-school rounds a while back I believe.

J.P.

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As I travel a lot, I've gotten to play several:

The Ocean Course
Royal New Kent
The Bear at Grand Traverse
Oak Tree
PB Dye
Pinehurst #2
Bayonet
Legends/Moorland
Diamonte

I was scheduled to play Whistling Straits and Blackwolf Run a few years ago, but my Mom got sick and I had to cancel........ oh well.

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played kiawah, pinehurst 2, the moose track in alaska, and hold a membership at pbdye in MD...good times...

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I have only played PGA West Stadium Course from the list. My favorite hole was 18.... because it meant the round was almost over and didnt have to suffer anymore!!!!!

Must have been one hell of a fight Pete Dye had with his wife when he was designing that course!!!!
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3 Wood - TaylotMade Burner Tour
3 & 4 Hybrids - Adams a7
Irons - R7 tp 5-PW
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RX Phoenix Dedicated Member

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I have only played PGA West Stadium Course from the list. My favorite hole was 18.... because it meant the round was almost over and didnt have to suffer anymore!!!!!

Golf courses are works of art. For instance, the land where PGA West Stadium now sits was once a flat barren featureless sandy desert. Everything you see now was put there by Dye, a marvelous sculpture.

The course used to be in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic rotation but the pros wrote a letter to the PGA requesting that it be taken out of the rotation . . . why . . . too tough of a course. Hit one of my best shots ever on 18, crushed a 5W stiff to a front pin placement and walked off the course a free man, whew, got out of there alive!

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5W R7 R
FT Fusion Hybrids Draw 3/21*, 4/24*
G5 5-PW X-forged Vintage: 52.12, 56.14MDScotty Cameron: Newport 2 ProV1

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I'm going to try and play No. 50 Furnace Creek on my next business trip to the high desert (Ft. Irwin, CA). I tried to last trip but couldn't get away from the base long enough.

I played No. 27 Fightin' Joe at The Shoals. It's long from the back tees, I think over 8000 yards and you're not even at hardly any elevation. The course was lined with minimal rough and very tall grass, so the balls had a tendency to roll into the weeds. I actually have a picture of me trying to hack out of it and another of me standing in the middle of it with it up to my waist (I'm 6'7"). The most intimidating hole was #12, a 716 yard par 5 from the blacks. They even were nice enough to put water right in front of the green for you. The last hole, as pictured in Golf Digest, is a par 3 over a ravine that goes directly into the Tennessee River. It's a beautiful hole to look at and a great one to end on.

Here are some pictures that might help. Most of these are of my dad and I. The ones at The Shoals include my uncle. I hope this works. The Fightin' Joe pictures start on Page 3.

Golf Pictures

Scott Sandlin
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Fairway: Taylormade R7 Steel 13 deg, Wilson Deep Red II Distance 18 deg, StiffIrons: Titleist 735.cm 3-PW, DG S300, +1.5", +4 deg upWedge: Titleist Vokey SM 53 deg and 59 degPutter: Scotty Cameron Santa Fe 33"Ball: Titleist...

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NCGolfer

7. Tot Hill Farm
10. Tobacco Road
37. Legends - Moorland
46. Thunderhill

I've played Tot Hill and Tobacco Road multiple times. Tot Hill is much harder than Tobacco road in my opinion. Strantz was in one of his more "creative" periods when making those golf courses.

I'll tell you what though, Thunderhill is probably the hardest golf course I've ever played though. From the back tees it is a 152/78.5. Sure they removed some of the ponds, but it's an insane golf course with water everywhere.

Fairways and Greens.

Dave
 

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Only "The Bear" but I plan on playing Whistling Straits this summer.

I was surprised Arcadia Bluffs didn't make the cut.
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