malek988
Challenge Tour Pro
still waiting to hear the name of this exclusive club?
Playing the worlds top 100 courses
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The Eden club, near St Andrews. It's in post #7
I've just toured the website and facebook pages and it reminds me of great times I had with a bunch of Americans in Oregon every 2 years playing stunning courses there and here. Great times and great friendships made.
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OldMate
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Royal Melbourne has never done it for me (based solely on what I've seen on tv). As far as Aussie courses go, Barnbougle Lost Farm would be my first pick. The other plus is that Lost Farm is also a lot more accessible than RM. That is a good list - Friar's Head would be near the top for me as well, along with Whistling Straits.
CheltenhamHacker
Journeyman Pro
Sounds like a bit of jealousy from a lot of people!
Canary_Yellow
Journeyman Pro
If I won the lottery, I'd definitely use my money to play as many of the best courses in the world as I could.
With the odd exception, it seems that the majority of the best courses are also in places that are great to visit even absent the course.
My dream is to do two big golf holidays in my lifetime.
1) Playing the big name courses in the Carolina's down to TPC Sawgrass.
2) A Californian tour - try and sneak something in around San Francisco, then Half Moon Bay, Pebble Beach and down to Southern California where I'd try and play Pelican Hill and Torrey Pines.
Ah, I can but dream....
With the odd exception, it seems that the majority of the best courses are also in places that are great to visit even absent the course.
My dream is to do two big golf holidays in my lifetime.
1) Playing the big name courses in the Carolina's down to TPC Sawgrass.
2) A Californian tour - try and sneak something in around San Francisco, then Half Moon Bay, Pebble Beach and down to Southern California where I'd try and play Pelican Hill and Torrey Pines.
Ah, I can but dream....
The way I chopped it on Sunday not sure I'm fit to grace the local pitch and putts let alone a workd class course. These lista re all based on opinion and no such thing as a definitive list but if someone has the chance to tick off as many as possible on one given list then good luck to him.
Adi2Dassler
Journeyman Pro
Because I firmly believe that golf shouldn't be an exclusive sport and open to all.Having to be accepted into a society ( that I imagine isn't cheap) to allow me access to a golf course just runs directly in the opposite way I'd like the sport to be played.And I've got no doubt the people are nice,but that's not the point I was making.
it isn't! anyone can play, especially in Scotland!!
Very strange view you have on exclusive!
I assume all private members golf clubs make you wretch as well?
Adi2Dassler
Journeyman Pro
It's exclusive on the list of courses Eden use, which is what my point is based on.And aye, private members clubs in any walk of life make me wretch.
MendieGK
Tour Winner
I assume if you were offered a round at Augusta by a member you'd decline then as its against your beliefs?
Golf is no different to real life, do you dislike Ferraris because only a select few can afford them?
i think we should call you Stalin. Communism is clearly your political choice
Golf is no different to real life, do you dislike Ferraris because only a select few can afford them?
i think we should call you Stalin. Communism is clearly your political choice
Adi2Dassler
Journeyman Pro
I assume if you were offered a round at Augusta by a member you'd decline then as its against your beliefs?
Golf is no different to real life, do you dislike Ferraris because only a select few can afford them?
i think we should call you Stalin. Communism is clearly your political choice
I'm a bit left of Stalin. Of course I'd play Augusta,it doesn't stop me not liking the principles ( and in Particular Augusta) they're based on.
Canary_Yellow
Journeyman Pro
I assume if you were offered a round at Augusta by a member you'd decline then as its against your beliefs?
Golf is no different to real life, do you dislike Ferraris because only a select few can afford them?
i think we should call you Stalin. Communism is clearly your political choice
That's not the same though, is it? If you have the money, you can buy a Ferrari, there are other barriers (in theory) to joining private members clubs which I presume is what Adi2Dassler doesn't like - the snobbery aspect, to the extent there is any.
Foxholer
Blackballed
I assume if you were offered a round at Augusta by a member you'd decline then as its against your beliefs?
Golf is no different to real life, do you dislike Ferraris because only a select few can afford them?
i think we should call you Stalin. Communism is clearly your political choice
There's a significant difference between the social conscience Social-Democrat approach I see in Adi's posts to the Central Control Totalitarianism of Stalin's Communism!
It does amuse me that, apparently, one of the major selling points of this 'exclusive' club is actually to provide more (less exclusive) access to the particular courses!
Its very existence demonstrates why I don't believe that Communism will actually work without some form of oppression! It's a natural human condition to strive to 'improve' one's situation/condition.
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This thread answers maninblacks question of why so many registered users vs active users. ....
Personally I wouldn't bother, its a long way from Inversneck and one of they guys i play with says its a bit of a field without the crowds... (he's played it twice)
Hacker Khan
Yurt Dwelling, Yoghurt Knitter
To me the club looks like a bunch of very rich white people being very rich. Or an upmarket swingers club. And therefore having access to some of the best courses in the world that is not available to many others. Who are not so rich.
Fair play to them I suppose, it's not as if they are taking up the tee times of others on these courses I assume. And if you've got it then spunking your money away on playing nice golf courses is a good a way of spending your money as any to me.
The concept of having to be members of an invite only exclusive club to access some of these courses is not one I like. But then again you could argue that all they are doing is what a lot of clubs still try and do, relying on the aspiration nature of being a member of a golf club in the hope that people will pay for that. And all they have done is take it to the extreme.
Fair play to them I suppose, it's not as if they are taking up the tee times of others on these courses I assume. And if you've got it then spunking your money away on playing nice golf courses is a good a way of spending your money as any to me.
The concept of having to be members of an invite only exclusive club to access some of these courses is not one I like. But then again you could argue that all they are doing is what a lot of clubs still try and do, relying on the aspiration nature of being a member of a golf club in the hope that people will pay for that. And all they have done is take it to the extreme.
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There is a popular misconception that American courses are better but don't believe the hype. I've played around 50 courses in the USA, some very good but the majority are no better than over here. Top 100 course rankings seem to be heavily weighted in favour of US courses but there is one simple fact....they do not have the variety of courses that we have in the UK. The service and reception you get is generally better (but only because everyone expects to be tipped) and course condition is often better but many courses are very samey.
Ethan
Money List Winner
Some American courses, not necessarily the sort that get Tour events, are great courses by any reasonable standard. Pine Valley, Cypress, NGLA, Bandon, Streamsong, Sand Hills etc.
Do they compare with the great UK and Ireland links and sand belt courses, RCD, Muirfield, Sunningdale, and so on? Matter of opinion.
There is no doubt that some of the American golf that UK tourists are offered is dull and duller. Most Orlando golf, for example, and a lot of the resort fare offered are cookie cutter water and sand courses built around condos. Not good.
But there is plenty of dull golf available around these parts too.
Ethan
Money List Winner
Stalin wasn't left at all, so left of Stalin offers a wide range of choices. Left of Mao would be a different matter, though.
