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My Top 4 courses for WGT

• dorkfeatures 712 Posts

  Wed, Feb 3 2010 7:07 PM

  HI All,

  Heres my choice for the next 4 courses. Nothing like looking ahead - right  lol.

  Here they are in order of priority.

  1 - St Andrews. Incredible links course, few courses like it. Should be great.

  2 - Augusta National. WOW would that be something 

  3 - Peeble Beach. Magnificent looking course, and quite a challenge I would think.

  4 - Wolf Creek. What an incredible challenge this course would be.

  So - there it is for what its worth. Yeh I've missed out dozens of other courses but - well, we cant have em all.

  Cheers Doug

• neildiamond11790 1,115 Posts

  Wed, Feb 3 2010 8:31 PM

  like the topic.

  My list:

  1) Augusta National

  2) Sebonack Golf Club- Southampton, NY (check it out, its serious)

  3) TPC Sawgrass

  4) National Golf Links of America- Southampton, NY

  Crap, throw Maidstone in East Hampton, NY as #5, Hamptons have so many amazing courses.

• OaktheToke 409 Posts

  Wed, Feb 3 2010 9:25 PM

  LOL, people can stop wishing for Augusta National because it will never happen.  

  The club BOD the controls the exclusive rights to the course and they won't allow it.    They don't care for any additional marketing dollars.   They get millions from CBS's broadcast of The Masters and those don't even have any commercial breaks due from pressure from corporate sponsors.  They are extremely old school.

  Heck, I'm sure they give up government tax breaks in order to remain exclusive in their choice of membership, which still doesn't include any women.

  Great track. Never, ever, ever, happen.

• lilrob88 870 Posts

  Wed, Feb 3 2010 9:30 PM

  Augusta seems to be on everyone list

  unfortunately Augusta isnt letting anyone on their course. They wont even let the members on the course.

  lol

  EA has tried a ton even tried to throw the big $'s at them. and when i say big i mean BIG so replace Augusta with your hometown muni

  :)

• danohi50 1,020 Posts

  Thu, Feb 4 2010 12:39 AM

  My list

  #1 TPC @ Avenel

  #2 Royal Melbourne (composite course)

  #3 Cyprus Point

  #4 Pine Valley

• jayjonbeach 689 Posts

  Sat, Feb 6 2010 10:13 PM

  I dont have a top 4, at least not yet.

  However I just played Wolf Creek and wow just wow.  

  I've played every course on WGT and I think this might be my favourite now so I'll put another vote in for this one. 

  Edit - Holy sh*t.  I just played it again, what an awesome course, beautiful, unique, challenging as hell, scenic, great course wow definitely my fav. 

  FYI - I am surprised at the scores on the current CTTH, some shot 75 - 85 which seems pretty dang good for there, note only 15 people under 100 so far though.

  EDIT - After seeing the last tourney, I'll make Pebble Beach my number 2  :) 

  EDIT 2 - hmm this is tough, see pics of CapeKidnappers bottom of page 3. 

  Here's my list now though I really dont know which I prefer at the top! 

  1.   Pebble Beach

  2.   Wolf Creek

  3.   CapeKidnappers

  4.   Banff Springs (Canada)

• dorkfeatures 712 Posts

  Sun, Feb 7 2010 3:00 AM

  Hey jayjon,

  Yeh - Wolfcreek gets a very high rating from me. Thats why its in my top 4.

  I know we'll never get Augusta National, but - well its nice to dream sometimes :-)

  Have a look at  Wolf Creek on TWO (sorry) - but it gives you a really good idea of the course. Just incredibly challenging. Hardly a flat piece of land anywhere on the course.

  I think it would be the most challenging of all the courses if WGT added it to the list for strokeplay.

  The scenery - just awesome.

  Cheers Doug

• 158 Posts

  Sun, Feb 7 2010 4:14 AM

  1. Royal Lytham & St Annes

  2. Pebble Beach

  3. Wentworth

  4. Turnberry

  Erratum:

  at No. 5 few Links2001 courses: Firestone, Cog Hill, Bay Hill.

• raidermatt1 96 Posts

  Sun, Feb 7 2010 5:37 AM

  1. Merion (extremely underrated) 2. Oakmont 3. Winged Foot 4. Hazeltine

• oppy 286 Posts

  Sun, Feb 7 2010 6:26 AM

  Well I could list the four best courses in the world, but outside of St. Andrews, they are all ultra exclusive private courses. So I will choose a little more realistic of a top 4. These are courses that are public, or at least offer some public play.

  1. Royal County Down

  2. Royal Melbourne (West)

  3. Pebble Beach

  4. Pinehurst No 2