Best Course You Have Played This Year

[DeanoMK]

Tough one. I loved Northamptonshire County, Temple, Stoneham and Hayling.

If I had to pick one from those then it would be......Hayling, I think. Really tough choice.

 

[gopher99]

I have been really lucky this year and played some bucket list courses for me, Royal Dornoch, Pinehurst No2,4 & 8, Tobacco Road, Bay Hill, and PGA national champion course.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Black Mountain in Thailand.

Someone I know played here this year and rates it as the best course he has played for a good while.

 

[AussieKB]

Someone I know played here this year and rates it as the best course he has played for a good while.

The Cu is 30 minutes away from me, just do not play there on a windy day.

 

[simo71]

Looking back - I have actually had a hell of a year!
North Berwick - most fun
Portrush - "best" but played crap
Portstewart - best golf and perhaps the best front 9 anywhere
Cavendish and Hillside were both incredibly good too

 

[richbeech]

Looking back - I have actually had a hell of a year!
North Berwick - most fun
Portrush - "best" but played crap
Portstewart - best golf and perhaps the best front 9 anywhere
Cavendish and Hillside were both incredibly good too

My game completely deserted me on my Ireland trip unfortunately. Probably as bad as I've ever played but I always say when you're playing courses like Portrush and Portstewart your score is sort of irrelevant, you just need to enjoy it and drink it in.

Agree on the front 9 at Portstewart, absolutely amazing. The 1st is the best opening and one of the most memorable holes I've ever played.

 

[Val]

Didn't get to play many top courses this year but Dundonald probably pipped the PGA at Gleneagles for me.

 

[LincolnShep]

I've played seventeen different courses this year (4½ of them for the first time). The 'best' was The Hotchkin at Woodhall Spa but the one I enjoyed the most was Stockwood Vale near Bristol; honourable mention also to Horsley Lodge near Derby.

 

[Bdill93]

Probably has to be the London Club for me. I just thought it was class.

Over Hayling?

 

[Bdill93]

Ive been around a bit this year but I think Hayling has to be the one for me.

First experience of a links course and one to remember for some time! Beautiful!

 

[Golfnut1957]

I have been really lucky this year and played some bucket list courses for me, Royal Dornoch, Pinehurst No2,4 & 8, Tobacco Road, Bay Hill, and PGA national champion course.

That is some bucket list.

A lot of people have played some top courses this year but yours will take some beating.

 

[Orikoru]

Over Hayling?

I know this is the wrong attitude but I can't help but rate courses slightly lower if I play crap on them. ? The ground was so soft and crumbly in places and I hit way too many duffs. Not a fan of arduous long holes into the wind either - I don't think links really suits me to be honest. At the London Club I actually played decent, but also the style of the course is more my cup of tea as well.

 

[Bdill93]

I know this is the wrong attitude but I can't help but rate courses slightly lower if I play crap on them. ? The ground was so soft and crumbly in places and I hit way too many duffs. Not a fan of arduous long holes into the wind either - I don't think links really suits me to be honest. At the London Club I actually played decent, but also the style of the course is more my cup of tea as well.

It certainly adds to enjoyment playing well! I too prefer parkland I think, Links is just too hard for me

 

[gopher99]

I know this is the wrong attitude but I can't help but rate courses slightly lower if I play crap on them. ? The ground was so soft and crumbly in places and I hit way too many duffs. Not a fan of arduous long holes into the wind either - I don't think links really suits me to be honest. At the London Club I actually played decent, but also the style of the course is more my cup of tea as well.

I think you have hit the nail on the head with this post, thats why its so hard to review courses without personal feelings coming into it. If you play well on a course then obviously you are going to rate it higher, same goes if its a beautiful day out there rather than pouring down with rain.

 

[Imurg]

I think you have hit the nail on the head with this post, thats why its so hard to review courses without personal feelings coming into it. If you play well on a course then obviously you are going to rate it higher, same goes if its a beautiful day out there rather than pouring down with rain.

Agreed, although I felt Hayling wasn't as good as I remember it from the other times I've played....probably still recovering from the harsh summer.

 

[Orikoru]

Agreed, although I felt Hayling wasn't as good as I remember it from the other times I've played....probably still recovering from the harsh summer.

Having not really played any links before, it was not exactly how I expected a links course to be. I thought they would typically have shorter grass and harder ground with more run, but there was no run on it whatsoever, and as I said above, a lot of the ground was soft and crumbly.

None of this means I didn't like it btw, it was a great experience still.

 

[IanM]

You're not wrong. Bits of Hayling are a bit "loamy" rather than sandy...

 

[OldMate]

Barnbougle Dunes for me. Probably right up there as one of my favourite courses I've ever played.

 

[Hoganman1]

Clearly it's Carnoustie for me. Kingsbarns would be a close second.

 

[i*windows]

no new courses this year, which is a shame, but St. Eurach southwest of Munich is a belter. Hoping to play in Ireland next year.