Foxholer
Blackballed
While I can understand your reasoning behind (at least most of) your 1st paragraph, your 2nd strikes me as rather daft!Courses I wouldn’t go back to.
Pyrford, old thorns. Windlesham. The Oxfordshire.
Places I won’t play;
Any where that calls itself an ‘inland’ links. Or country club. Anywhere with no dress code
While 'inland links' is often an excuse for lack of expenditure/mintenance, there ARE inland courses that have a decidedly linksy feel to them. These should not be simply rejected out of hand imo.
Likewise, courses that have 'no dress code' often seem, to me, to be more progressive than those that have one - that is often ignored/inconsistent/has to be constantly upated as golf fashion changes.
The course I play at - happily travelling 45+ miles to do so - does not, as far as I know, have a dress code (course or clubhouse). I believe it may have had one at some stage, but deliberately dropped it in order to allow members/anyone to 'drop in' on their way home from work without having to change into 'acceptable' attire. I've not seen any adult players in any clothes that wouldn't be acceptable at virtually any course. Oh, and btw...there's a definite linksy feel to the views/scenery of the above course, if not to the turf of the actual course.