best golf courses played

[billm408]

My all-time favorites list (so far).

1. Cypress Point
2. SF Golf Club
3. Spyglass
4. Carnoustie
5. Muirfield Village
6. Pasatiempo
7. Ford Ord (Bayonet)
8. Bandon Dunes
9. Royal Troon
10. Diablo Grande (Ranch)

[Bauer]

My two favorite courses I have played are the Four Seasons courses in Punta Mita Mexico, and Costa Rica Liberia (Papagayo Peninsula).

The first picture is a par 3 with the green located on an island in the ocean in Mexico. The next few are the Costa Rica course.



On this one I hit a 340yd drive, lets just say it was quite a ways downhill...


This is the tee box...


For this green


And these are monkeys!

[sam004]

  knock-down said:

My top 10 courses and the number of times I've played them:

Who do you have to know to play Butler and Medinah ? :)

[jorruss]

I would say Jupiter Hills Club in Jupiter FL was the best for me. I played a practice round a week before the Florida State Am last summer after they had just re-opened from 4 months of maintenance on the village course, and there was nary a blade of grass out of place and not a single divot on the entire course. The Hills course is a work of art and the most challenging test I have ever endured. From the tournament only black tees it measures 7344 yards and plays to a par of 70. The course rating is 77.3 and 151 is the slope.

[Batmanrb89]

My top 10 courses I've played:

1. Baltusrol Golf Club (lower course) - Springfield, NJ
2. The Baton Rouge Country Club - Baton Rouge, LA
3. Baltusrol Golf Club (upper Course) - Springfield, NJ
4. Echo Lake Country Club - Westfield, NJ
5. TPC Louisiana - Avondale, LA
6. Atlantic City Country Club - Northfield, NJ
7. The Country Club of Louisiana - Baton Rouge, LA
8. English Turn - New Orleans, LA
9. Upper Montclair Country Club - Clifton, NJ
10. Legends Resorts (all) - Mrytle Beach, SC

[Strickerfan]

My top courses I have played in no particular order

1. Butler National
2. Sherwood CC
3. Riviera CC
4. Pinehurst (#2 and #4)
5. Skokie CC
6. Pine Needles
7. Harbour Town GL
8 Olympia Fields (North and South)
9. Torrey Pines (North and South)
10. TPC Las Vegas
11. Princeville
12. TPC Deere Run
13. TPC Scottsdale
14. Las Sendas
14. University of New Mexico (South Course
15. University Ridge
16. Brown Deer Park
17. Talking Stick
18. Sentryworld
19. Lake Arrowhead
20. Butterfield CC

[Larryscooterman]

I'll add my top ten. I have had the good fortune to play many great courses so it was tough to rank them. I tried to put them in order of my favorite total golf experience - which means I tried not to account for after golf fun, etc.

1. Cypress Point
2. Erin Hills
3. Atlanta Athletic Club
4. Whistling Straits
5. Forest Dunes
6. Blackwolf Run - River Course
7. Pebble Beach
8. Milwaukee CC
9. Blackwolf Run - Meadow Valleys
10 Torrey Pines

Honorable Mention:
-Scioto
-Black Lake
-Arcadia Bluffs
-The Preserve Club

[GamecockMurph]

Baltimore Country Club (East Course). Designed by A.W. Tillinghast and consistently in Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the U.S.

[GolfinGQ]

  Cesar said:

My top 10:

Hey Cesar.....where you from man? Looks like you are playing the same courses as me!!! Where about do you normally play?

[ddebart2]

My top 3:

1) Butler National - amazing
2) The General at Eagle Ridge
3) Lost Dunes (Bridgman, MI)

Haven't played too many courses outside of Chicagoland, hope to get out and do a California trip as well as the Robert Trent Jones golf trail soon

[Beretta_Shooter]

1)Ballybunion
2)Royal Portrush
3)Old Course St. Andrews
4)Ocean Course Kiawah
5)Winged Foot West
6)Port Stewart
7)Lahinch
8)TPC-Sawgrass Stadium
9)Olympic Club Lake
10)Winged Foot East
11)Spyglass
12)Tralee
13)Quaker Ridge
14)Kingsbarns
15)Pebble Beach
16)Plantation Course

Could not stop at 10. Pebble is only on this list for sentimental reasons. Most overrated course in America.

[dag2000]

Congressional Blue Course

[Sir Ryan]

Man guys...take me with you

[Yukari]

Wolf Creek in Mesquite, NV and the Blue Monster at Doral.

Funny how everyone raves about Pasatiempo at Santa Cruz, I don't think it is that memorable compare to other places.

[Cesar]

  GolfinGQ said:

Hey Cesar.....where you from man? Looks like you are playing the same courses as me!!! Where about do you normally play?

Howdy! I just sent you a PM.

[Larryscooterman]

  Yukari said:

Funny how everyone raves about Pasatiempo at Santa Cruz, I don't think it is that memorable compare to other places.

I agree - I've played Pasatiempo and was largely disappointed. I don't understand why it continues to make all the top 100 lists. Its nice, and probably a great place for local californians to play regularly, but it certainly is not a 'destination' track.

[GolfinGQ]

oh man, that was one of my next nice courses to play too!

[gilbert]

It would have to be Royal County Downs in Northern Ireland.