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countless courses, no way could i put a number on 'em. i buy yardage books for most of the really good or big-name tracks and keep those in my home office. will definitely buy flags from the courses when i have a basement or bar-room or home gym, but it would definitely take over my townhouse. when i first started playing some pretty decent name tracks I'd get bag tags, but then they clanged around so much so i just picked the two really different looking ones (whistling straits - just the head of neptune and bandon's puffin head) and put a few more on a side ring, but most are at home now and off the bag. picked up a towel from pebble and whistling straits as well. still trying to play in all 50 states; currently have 30 down (6 to go east of the mississippi), including 25% of the courses in Alaska (aight, so there's 12 tracks in AK and i've played four).

me too-- too bad this conversation ain't at a bar... i've heard this as well. definitely good to know for the future.

hehe i actually parred the 17th at sawgrass and was sooo lucky to even have that chance--look where the ball stopped. only time i've ever really worried about falling in the drink while putting. http://www.flickr.com/photos/erova/2...7604009050804/ bulle rock is a great modern course. if you find yourself over here, play bulle rock and find time to play Tom Doak's Beechtree course, which is only a few minutes away...two completely different tracks but both are worth at least one visit...

best public in Maryland is Pete Dye's Bulle Rock (though not always my favorite); best private (and best overall) would be Baltimore Country Club (Tillie's Five Farms) and the blue course at Congressional (host of the 1997 and 2011 US Open and Tiger's tournament).

i'm in maryland and had never heard of Chartwell... since it's a private club I'm surprised you assume someone on here surely must have played it...

63 and 72 in a day? wow, were you guys up in alaska or northern canada to get that much daylight? or just no one else on the course?

Hey everyone, I just signed up for one of the Solstice Survival events here in the mid-atlantic area of the US. It's 54 holes in one day on a pretty decent track ( Blue Ridge Shadows )--I've played 36 about three times (four after tomorrow) but nothing like this. anyone on here squeeze in a quick 54 before work? Solstice Survival 2008

no way could i remember all the tracks i've played. 30 states down, 20 to go. home course is PB Dye Golf Club, Golf Digest's 26th hardest course in the US (in their opinion, not mine). playing two of the Greenbrier courses tomorrow, and the Cascades course at the Homestead on Sunday. the link to my flickr page in my signature has some shots from some pretty decent public tracks.

that's correct--I'm a Maryland resident and registered my ID so I could make tee times 48 hours out. that day i made it out at 1 i actually had a tee time at 4. by showing up, well, 8 hours early i landed one of the walk-on times that opened up that day. easily worth it and will definitely try to make it back this summer all over again... would really like to experience the Red too...

devets, when i played i showed up at 8 am (after driving from central jersey), and teed off on the black at 1. no complaints here.

hey thanks. it will be a great time, if you're in to a good butt-whupping. but in all seriousness, i always recommend it, as (obviously) everyone else does too... (sorry to hijack your thread, Flap!)

I saw the same thing in a fortune cookie this weekend. In unrelated news, it's raining outside. Discuss.

definitely one of my favorite tracks I've played. real brutal though; it's reputation is definitely deserved. just a great place to play golf in general, with the courses, bars/restaurants, and people. here's some photos if you want to see a few shots: http://flickr.com/photos/erova/sets/72157601414531843/

nah, I think Flap posted it in the right section. He's letting people know a destination course is open for the season. His score is just ancillary to the condition of the course.

I too was shocked. I certainly thought ANGC had invented a grass seed that was capable of automatic regeneration, allowing divots to automatically grow in immediately after the shot. What a goat patch indeed. Borf, if you ever watch a televised baseball game when the Red Sox are home, see if the words "green monster" are ever mentioned, or if the hole in the roof at Texas Stadium is ever brought up. I agree with the other posters on here--if you don't like anything about the Masters, then watch something else.

wow, with all this hate about the piano jingle you'd think no one has ever watched the NCAA tournament with the oh-so-familiar music lead-in or Fox Sports' music intro. And the membership at Augusta National requires CBS to call the spectators patrons, just like they probably don't allow backward baseball caps, cell phones, or denim. It's their rule, and CBS follows it as they only sign short-term deals with ANGC. I have a bigger problem with yahoos calling bunkers "sand traps" than I do spectators/patrons.

uhh, borf, you're quickly losing your credibility in making your argument. since when does a major have to mirror whatever muni you play in canada? is the US Open at Torrey more real for you since it's a municipal course? or is an ocean-side course not real to the people who live in Kansas? and this quote: I guess you haven't seen US Opens or other tournaments at Shinnecock, Winged Foot, Merion, The Country Club, Olympic, Oakland Hills, Riviera (should I go on?). again, the last thing the Masters can be called is fake, because whatever pretensions you feel that are rubbing you the wrong way have always been there.

agreed. take away everything borf mentioned and what you have left is the Shell Houston Open. bleh. it's NOT fabricated though. fabrication implies it's artificial, recent, or staged. the fedex cup? that's fabricated, especially when announcers ask the players "how does it feel to earn 9,021 points with your T-33rd finish?" or "he needs to sink this putt for 463 points".

As a low-handicapper you may find the Big Berthas are too much of a game improvement iron. They have a real wide sole and huge cavity back and look a lot different than more performance-irons. I used to play Titleists and downshifted to the 2006 Big Berthas because I couldn't make the shots I needed to--in your case you may find the opposite to be true.

playing an easy course can be somewhat of a relief, even if it is just mental. after taking my lashes a few weeks in a row I don't mind playing a course with a slope of 115-120 if i've been grinding in the 130-136 range. usually it's the easy tracks my knucklehead buddies play rather than the more competitive, pricier courses, so i often don't seek out the easier track, it just happens the next round will be easier...

the new one with faldo and paula creamer ain't bad. i'm definitely sick of the CA commercials with Shawn the greenskeeper. GolfWeek had a similar opinion in last week's magazine...

interesting joomla module, tymac. i'll definitely keep you posted--it really looks like most of the software available is either more statistics driven (fairways hit, sand saves, putts, etc.) or for hardcore league management (with what often looks to be an offline desktop installation). sounds like i could throw something together and have a few guys on here beta test it for me!

hold on to your green fee receipt. last time i was there they had a 2 for 1 deal in the bar with a paid green fee--the only place i've ever seen an actual deal on beers at a destination course. not exactly the wisdom you were looking for, but i'm full of good ideas nonetheless...

interesting stuff. i'm also surprised to see how many titles are exclusively windows (i'm a mac user with windows installed). i think what i'm looking for is something simpler than a robust statistic-tracking application. i'll keep you guys posted if i have any luck coming up with something on my own...

Thanks for responding, Mike. I've actually built a few web apps in my day (and hired out quite a few more) so I'm not too concerned with the technical specs of the project. I just didn't want to throw some time at it if there was a system out there that already did the same thing...