New GM Top 100 - how many have you played?

[IanM]

Brabazon is not a bad course... I've played it plenty of times. Most times it was in good condition.

It just isn't top 100. You can reel off loads better.

 

[Tashyboy]

4, Ave played Sherwood and Lindrick and there’s not a lot in them so I wonder where Lindrick is rated. Another thought. The JCB course is supposed to be very good. Anyone any idea where that is re rating.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

4, Ave played Sherwood and Lindrick and there’s not a lot in them so I wonder where Lindrick is rated. Another thought. The JCB course is supposed to be very good. Anyone any idea where that is re rating.

It’s a private course where visitors are not allowed so it won’t be included

 

[davidy233]

It’s a private course where visitors are not allowed so it won’t be included

So it's not UK and Ireland top 100 then is it - it's best 100 you can pay to play

 

[Papas1982]

So it's not UK and Ireland top 100 then is it - it's best 100 you can pay to play

Hence why it’s the GM top 100.
they have for sometime done the top 100 courses you can realistically play.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

So it's not UK and Ireland top 100 then is it - it's best 100 you can pay to play

Yep, no point in the Bullseye philosophy.

Look what you coulda won......

As a reviewer I agree 100% with the stipulation that the top 100 should only be courses available to everyone. If you look at the US top 100 probably 75% can't be played by the average golfer.

 

[davidy233]

Hence why it’s the GM top 100.
they have for sometime done the top 100 courses you can realistically play.

I'm not arguing with the way it's done - just don't think the title 'Top 100 Golf Courses UK and Ireland 2021/22' is accurate - A more accurate description would be 'The top 100 you can play' (as used by some other magazines when they publish similar lists) - anyone looking at the article without pror knowledge that GM have for sometime done it this way would assume that this list is the best 100 course in the UK and Ireland because the caveat that private courses aren't included is not mentioned at all in the article.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I'm not arguing with the way it's done - just don't think the title 'Top 100 Golf Courses UK and Ireland 2021/22' is accurate - A more accurate description would be 'The top 100 you can play' (as used by some other magazines when they publish similar lists) - anyone looking at the article without pror knowledge that GM have for sometime done it this way would assume that this list is the best 100 course in the UK and Ireland because the caveat that private courses aren't included is not mentioned at all in the article.

When the change was made a couple of years ago only 6 courses were removed from the rankings so thing of it as the GB&I Top 94 courses

 

[davidy233]

When the change was made a couple of years ago only 6 courses were removed from the rankings so thing of it as the GB&I Top 94 courses

94 of the top 100 uk courses - not counting any new ones built (using JCBs) since then

 

[Deleted member 15344]

So it's not UK and Ireland top 100 then is it - it's best 100 you can pay to play

It’s the Golf Monthly Top 100 in GB and Ire

That the criteria for their list

 

[Val]

25 for me, disappointed tbh as it should be way higher. Have hardly hit a ball in 2 years, hoping to rectify that this season

 

[IanM]

Looking a the green fees of places I used to visit regularly years ago and its a bit shocking.

Love Hindhead, used to play there often when I worked in Haslemere. I was just out of Uni. I don't think I could have afforded the (equivalent)over £100 green fee on my salary in those days. Before I looked i would have assumed £65 or £75.
Maybe I'm getting old!

 

[AliMc]

Looking a the green fees of places I used to visit regularly years ago and its a bit shocking.

Love Hindhead, used to play there often when I worked in Haslemere. I was just out of Uni. I don't think I could have afforded the (equivalent)over £100 green fee on my salary in those days. Before I looked i would have assumed £65 or £75.
Maybe I'm getting old!

I find the same Ian, some of the prices now are just not on for me. I know it's always great to go on a lads trip (when we are allowed) and indeed I did play two of the top 100 a couple of years ago but tbh they didn't cost me as much as the advertised price and I didn't think they were as good as where I play anyway (we are in the next 100) so it kinds of puts me off bothering

 

[AAC]

Only 20% for me, must try harder

 

[Blue in Munich]

Looking a the green fees of places I used to visit regularly years ago and its a bit shocking.

Love Hindhead, used to play there often when I worked in Haslemere. I was just out of Uni. I don't think I could have afforded the (equivalent)over £100 green fee on my salary in those days. Before I looked i would have assumed £65 or £75.
Maybe I'm getting old!

I find the same Ian, some of the prices now are just not on for me. I know it's always great to go on a lads trip (when we are allowed) and indeed I did play two of the top 100 a couple of years ago but tbh they didn't cost me as much as the advertised price and I didn't think they were as good as where I play anyway (we are in the next 100) so it kinds of puts me off bothering

I must be bored, as I've just tried going through the list and totting up the green fees. I think I've got it right, and using an exchange rate of 1.2 for the courses quoted in Euros, and granted where a range of prices is used I have taken the higher one; the total for the top 99 (Swinley Forest do not quote a green fee) was approximately £20,012 (there was a bit of rounding up on the Euros). The Top 10 I tallied at £3,200, the Top 20 at £5.738.

Frankly I've just lost any interest in chasing those courses unless it is as a member's guest, at a vastly reduced rate for Opens or as part of a party where the organiser has negotiated a more reasonable rate. Outside of those three circumstances I'm not interested in dropping that sort of money on a round of golf unless I win the jackpot on the National Lottery.

Makes me all the more grateful for the likes of @drive4show (I'm sure there are others as well) who invite us oiks onto their courses at member's guest rates . I owe you a curry mate.

 

[IanM]

Got a few... "I need to play here" trips in planning and blow the expense.... but when you see the cost of a round somewhere you used to "nip on after work" it makes you think ?

 

[Bunkermagnet]

None.
They can't be that good if they haven't asked me to play there

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I must be bored, as I've just tried going through the list and totting up the green fees. I think I've got it right, and using an exchange rate of 1.2 for the courses quoted in Euros, and granted where a range of prices is used I have taken the higher one; the total for the top 99 (Swinley Forest do not quote a green fee) was approximately £20,012 (there was a bit of rounding up on the Euros). The Top 10 I tallied at £3,200, the Top 20 at £5.738.

Frankly I've just lost any interest in chasing those courses unless it is as a member's guest, at a vastly reduced rate for Opens or as part of a party where the organiser has negotiated a more reasonable rate. Outside of those three circumstances I'm not interested in dropping that sort of money on a round of golf unless I win the jackpot on the National Lottery.

Makes me all the more grateful for the likes of @drive4show (I'm sure there are others as well) who invite us oiks onto their courses at member's guest rates . I owe you a curry mate.

Welcome any time Rich! That also applies to all the good guys on here but not the bellends

 

[Imurg]

Welcome any time Rich! That also applies to all the good guys on here but not the bellends

I think there needs to be a list...

 

[Blue in Munich]

I think there needs to be a list...

You’re just trying to make work for Fragger... ??