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Memorable Golf Courses One Has Played (or Want to Play)

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The course I played this past weekend wasn't all that special... except for the flyover we got from the Blue Angels (!). The Dayton Air Show was going on nearby when we were getting ready to tee off looking down a tree-lined fairway when they approached for the first several passes. You could read the underside of the planes. :banger:
 
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Recently played a course not far from Youngstown called Old Stonewall in Ellwood City PA. I would compare it very closely to Longaberger, similar terrain, beautiful landscaping and conditions. Only negative would be the $160 greens fee.

played a few out in Vegas that were really nice, Paiute (2 out of the three courses) and Bali Hai.
 
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Now here's a weird one; The Feds are giving Munson Township (MT) a 5 million dollar grant. MT is going to use the money to buy Fowler s Mill, a Pete Dye designed course located in MT, east of Cleveland. MT is going to close the course and turn it into a walking park, as well as turn the club house into city hall.

As a result 75 full time and part time employees will lose there jobs. Also, the sales taxes, and property taxes going to the local schools will cease. An excellent example of Federal tax dollars at work.:(
 
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Buck Nasty;1734690; said:
Recently played a course not far from Youngstown called Old Stonewall in Ellwood City PA. I would compare it very closely to Longaberger, similar terrain, beautiful landscaping and conditions. Only negative would be the $160 greens fee.

played a few out in Vegas that were really nice, Paiute (2 out of the three courses) and Bali Hai.
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Stonewall is about 45 mins from me and most definitely NOT worth 160. We picked it up on last minute golfer for 75 and even then I thought it was only fairly priced. 160 is a complete f'in joke. Nice course but not 160 nice.

Played Oakmont. Highlight of my golf escapades so far. Shot 104 and for a 17 handicap I was pretty happy. (probably a 20 at the time I played it.) Birdied number 9 and will never forget it. Hardest greens to read ever. No caddie equals another 15-20 strokes - no shitting you.
 
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I've played a number of the famous ones... but Firestone remains my favorite...

Anyone that really wants to see how good they are... needs to play Firestone the week following the tournament... when there are like 5 different layers of rough... and the greens are just slightly faster than a billiard table...
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I did this in a member guest tourney last week. They kept the course in Bridgestone conditions. It was a foursome with handicaps. Each group received the Sunday scorecard from one of the pros and could use his score on any hole. We drew McIlroy, who shot 3 under so we didn't get to use alot of his holes. It was so bad, the caddies stood in the middle of the fairways to find your balls in case they went in the rough after you hit off the tee. If you got in the deep stuff, the caddie said dont bother trying to go anywhere but back onto the fairway. If you were lucky enough to stay in the fairway, you had to deal with those lightening fast greens. I shot a 115 :yow1:, including 9 shots getting out of 2 steep bunkers (no, I'm not hitting backwards, I'm getting on the green).

The only really good hole of the day was 18, when I got a par and was getting 2 blows for a net 2. That hole helped us get into the money and we came in 2nd place. Our prize: a round at the North Course.
 
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OK, when do we tee it up at the North Course Brutus? Played La Paloma (Westin Hotel in Tucson), a Nicklaus course with 3 9's. Made us take caddies because hadn't played before....shot 82 from the tips, and had two two-putt birdies, but if a ball strayed off the fairway (it was green grass, folks) into the rough, no grass, cactus and rock, the fore caddy told us to forget it, that ball now belongs to the rattlesnakes. No one argued.

Also played Princeville in Kuaii, Hawaii, and when the ball went into the rough, we called it 'Juraissic Park' and knew we wouldn't find it (no didn't see any T-rex's). Didn't break 100 from the blacks (Wood and 14-0 would have broken 70), but it was too far for me and not enjoyable. Moral of the story, gotta know your limitations. Played Pebble Beach from the whites, but when got to 18 went back to the back tees, 'just because'...

Hit 'em long and straight, and not too often.

:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger: Or as Tin Cup says, 'Fairways and Greens'
 
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This week end going to Monterey Peninsula for a golf buddies trip. It's the 26th annual, and am teeing it up at Poppy Hills on Sunday, and Bayonet on Monday.

Poppy is one of the courses used for the ATT (pros hate it because of the elephants buried in the greens), and Bayonet used to be one of the two courses at Fort Ord (former home of the 7th army), pretty spectacular, those generals lived very well.....and has been the site of Q-school on the West Coast. Should play OK at Poppy, but will get torched by Bayonet. Beautiful settings, in the pines of Monterey Peninsula, listening and seeing the Pacific ocean, and deer moseying around the course liked they owned the place. Plus go to Fisherman's Wharf and quaff some wine, eat fresh squid and some clam chowder with some good friends.....hope your week ends go as well!

:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger:
 
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Naaaw, it's more of a tell us your greatest story or experience on a golf course. Anyone can name the best courses, and say "I'd love to play there", and that would be the end of it. But telling about a super shot, great round, or other memorable experience on a golfing course is one of the reasons you play the game. If you've been bitten by the golf bug, it becomes all encompassing, and your hands sweat and you twitch when the snow is on the ground. You watch the golf channel incessantly, playing back the lessons, grip a club, real or imagined, when in church, in a staff meeting, and do a swing whenever there is room to make one.

That's what this thread is really about. Looking forward to that "buddy trip" to South Carolina, the Golf Trail in Alabama, or ? maybe it's playing that course that requires membership, and you finally meet someone who invites you. Taking a vacation to a far place, and scoring a tee time on a course that held a US Open, PGA, or some tournament, and then actually scoring well.

That's what it is about BKB........Just did a Buddy trip to MOnterey Peninsula. Played Poppy Hills, and shot 83 on Saturday, and 95 on Black Horse (Fort Ord's course). On the Bayonet (sister 18) watched 78 pros try to qualify for the Frye Open this week end. 78 played for four spots in the field. They played Bayonet from the tips, about 7400 yards, and the greens were like glass. From the whites, it kicks my butt. From the blues, it is frightening, from the blacks (tips) it is downright scary. Only four of them broke par, which is amazing, but they're golf professionals. Tiger got an exemption, else he would have had to be there as well. The 18's interlock, so sometimes we would have to wait while they were on their tees, sometimes they waited on us.....they hit the ball scary long, and too straight for belief. Almost every hole had a view of the ocean, and only $55 including cart. Those generals lived very well.

:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger:
 
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