What's The Best Course You've Ever Played?`
 

I am not lucky or rich enough to have played anywhere famous. In fact the best course I've ever played you've probably never heard of. It is Bay Harbor, on the north coast of Michigan. Running along Lake Michigan it is described as "The Pebble Beach of the Mid-West" and that pretty much sums it up.

So what about you?

Kiva Dunes in Gulf Shores, Alabama
The Whitmoor in St. Charles, Missouri
The Peninsula in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

I don't have many to compare against, since I've never been on any of the well know cources. Chaska Town Course is nice, though I don't hit well off the bent grass.

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I look out my window and I can see parts of Hazeltine National Golf Club, but I'll never be able to golf there.

Add this one to both Blackwolf Run courses and Whistling Straits as top flight golf courses all within an hour's drive from Milwaukee and each other.

No, never golfed it but thought it d be more of my own PSA for Wisconsin golf.

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Pinehurst No. 2.

It's a tie between whistling straits and oak hills south

If you liked Whistling Straits, puke, you might want to check out Erin Hills...

I will have to check out..probably next year the way this summer is going to go

Put - and - Go I think was the name, Harrison MI. The loop was a bitch.

To avoid angering the golf gods, I have to say Augusta simply to appease them.

Though in reality I honestly preferred either Cypress Point or Bandon Dunes. I like Bandon so much I make a yearly pilgrimage there.

how the hell did you get on augusta? did you drop to a knee to hootie?

My wife's sister is a state senator. She has male connections in government, obviously. It was her birthday gift to me a few years back. The course itself was absolutely gorgeous, no doubt...but I really had a bit of a hard time enjoying it because it was so god damned terrifyingly hot. I ended up playing the entire round with one of those horseshoe coolers from Sharper Image and I was still dying.

I've played Bay Harbor. My grandmother has a condo right up by there. Great Course.

Best course I ever played that people have heard of was Torrey Pines. Unfortunately, I was an even worse golfer then than I am now. It was the first time I had played "real" (ie not muni speed) greens. I rolled several balls into the water and was probably not very fun to play with. I'd like to go again now that I can golf a little better and have a much better tempermant.

Best course I've ever played from my standpoint was this place up in Washington State. It was up by Port Townsend, WA where they filmed an Officer & a Gentleman. I forget the name of it, but the only course I can see that is on the water when I look up on Yahoo maps is Discovery Bay. mountains and had a few holes that you looked out over the bay. Was absolutely amazing.

must have been an excruciating workout. those hills are nasty. my old man went to the tourney 2 years ago and he said just walking in the crowd was the best workout he's ever gotten.

* in Hootie's finest Southern drawl *

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A letta ov reprimand, Suh, is forthcoming.

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Couple of comments:

I've played Kiva Dunes as well, and it was a great course for sure. From what I've seen on TV Whistling Straits looks like it may be one of the best courses I will ever see,. I couldn't stop talking about it the day after the PGA (was that the major?) a few years ago.

Finally that is amazing that someone else has played Bay Harbor. My grandmother lived very close, in Charlevoix. This is the town my mom grew up in. Sadly my grandmother is gone and I honestly don't see the possibility of ever going to Charlevoix, or Bay Harbor, again.

i have played bay harbor over 10 times..i just didn't list it as the best course i've played...it's nice, but not the best. in michigan, for public, IMO nothing beats arcadia bluffs

Most over-hyped course I ever played: Oakland Hills. I played it about four weeks before the Ryder and thought it was a joke. No amazing scenery, no insane challenges. Just a flat, boring course with too few mature trees. Of course, they let the rough grow and hardened the greens before the real golfers showed up, but that didn't chnage the fact it is flat and boring.

I completely disagree, and how can you say it's not hilly? 17 is a dead nuts uphill par three that required a 200+ carry shot...how about 11 that goes down to a valley and requires a 130 yard straight uphill shot? How about 6 that plays straight up hill?

Not sure where this comes from...and insane challenges on the course? Did you pay attention to the greens, e.g. the ones with a drain in them because they were so big? How about the big ass traps?

Now the scenery I'll give you, no doubt there...too "few" trees? ok....

keep in mind, this is NOT an up north course


I came here because I remembered about my Ireland trip from the caddy discussion, everyone of those courses blows every us course i've played away

I've heard Bandon is awesome, but they wouldn't let the likes of me on there. Guy I work with does the same Bandon pilgrimage every year.