America's 100 Greatest Holes

[iacas]

America’s 100 Greatest Golf Holes | Courses | GolfDigest.com

How many have you played? I'll count up my number sometime here soon (I don't know that it'll get to double digits).

[billchao]

I was fully expecting the answer to be zero but apparently I’ve played one, Royal New Kent #2. I did not think it was a good hole.

I might make a trip out to Bethpage Black this year and that will check off a couple more, but not certain it will happen.

[DaveP043]

I think I got to 10, mostly because I played Pebble Beach this year.

[klineka]

1 for me, 18th at Harbour Town.

Kinda surprised nothing from Wolf's Creek was on there but maybe they're not great golf holes architecturally, just visually stunning holes. 

[GolfLug]

I have played two. I believe Southern Pines #9 should be on the list. 

[Hardspoon]

I have a total of 13, all from playing Oakmont (3), Pebble Beach (6), Pete Dye GC (2), Spyglass Hill (1), and Royal New Kent (1).

I have plans to play the Ocean Course (Kiawah) and Pikewood National (Morgantown, WV) this summer, so that will add 6 (!) more.

The only "surprises" for me, in terms of courses I've played, were #17 at Fox Chapel and #18 from Laurel Valley not making the list.

Edited June 2 by Hardspoon

[Hardspoon]

21 hours ago, billchao said:

I was fully expecting the answer to be zero but apparently I’ve played one, Royal New Kent #2. I did not think it was a good hole.

 

Ummm., yeah.  I read the entire list and didn't even realize I'd played there until I read your post...so that's saying something.

[saevel25]

Two, Royal Kent (I believe I played this course once a few TST Crew one year) & TPC Sawgrass. 

[iacas]

My list…

1. The Ocean Course #13 (100)
2. Oakmont #18 (98)
3. Oakmont #17 (94)
4. Bethpage Black #15 (92)
5. Royal New Kent #2 (89)
6. Country Club of Buffalo #6 (76)
7. Myopia Hunt Club #9 (70)
8. Bethpage Black #4 (52)
9. The Ocean Course #17 (43)
10. Oakmont #3 (31)

[billchao]

55 minutes ago, Hardspoon said:

Ummm., yeah.  I read the entire list and didn't even realize I'd played there until I read your post...so that's saying something.

I remember the hole but I didn't even remember how I played it until I looked it up on Game Golf. We needed to hit it much farther left off the tee than it looked. I think @iacas pulled his drive and ended up being the only one in the group that hit the fairway. I hit my drive in the junk, played it further into the junk, played the third just out of the junk, then pitched it just off the back of the green and two putt for 6. I was never in the fairway the entire hole, and thinking about it now, I don't think I would have scored better if I played the hole "the right way."

The junk must have been decent enough to play from because it doesn't appear that I made any attempt to simply hit back out onto the fairway sideways or something. I don't see that as much of a test of risk vs reward. And the tee shot is only going to fool you once. It did look pretty cool, as many of the holes at RNK did.

[jsgolfer]

I have 6, mostly because I’ve played Pikewood National.

Royal New Kent #2 (89)

Pikewood National #12 (71)

Pikewood National #4 (62)

Pikewood National #11 (42)

TPC Sawgrass #17 (20)

Pikewood National #8 (5)

 

 

 

 

[Ty_Webb]

Here is my full list:

The Ocean Course 13 - 100

Winged Foot West 10 - 99

Bethpage Black 15 - 92

Shinnecock 16 - 88

Friar's Head 16 - 84

Merion East 11 - 69

Merion East 18 - 67

NGLA 4 - 58

Yale 9 - 57

Pine Valley 10 - 54

Bethpage Black 4 - 52

Merion East 17 - 50

Friar's Head 10 - 48

NGLA 16 - 46

Harbour Town 18 - 45

The Ocean Course 17 - 43

NGLA 17 - 40

The Creek 11 - 37

Pine Valley 7 - 35

Shinnecock 18 - 29

Pine Valley 18 - 25

Friar's Head 15 - 24

Pine Valley 13 - 23

Shinnecock 11 - 21

TPC Sawgrass 17 - 20

NGLA 3 - 15

Pine Valley 2 - 8

Merion East 16 - 7

Pine Valley 5 - 3

29 total. I've been pretty lucky, but a lot of these come from a handful of courses. Pine Valley, Merion, NGLA, and Shinnecock makes up 17 of them. 

[phan52]

37, having played the following courses:

Cypress Point

Merion

Pine Valley

Winged Foot

Oakmont

Pacific Dunes

Bandon Dunes

Shinnicock Hills

Monterey Peninsula (Dunes)

Rolling Green

National Golf Links

Seminole

Harbourtown

Somerset Hills