Thread: Golf courses you'd love to play

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What golf course/s would you love to play?
So many to choose from!

Here are two of mine:

Pebble Beach (USA)

That hole looks mental




And thanks to Mina no golf for introducing me to this course

Kawana GC (Izu, Japan)



I miss links golf

What about everyone else?

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A few obvious ones.









But can anyone guess this next one? (Hint: It's not the Woy Woy Country Club! )

need more hints...

Australia, south of Woy Woy.

No idea.

Woy Woy must know

You should have some idea ...

I think I know three of them: St. Andrews, Pebble Beach, Doral (Blue Monster)?.

Originally Posted by FrankM

I think I know three of them: St. Andrews, Pebble Beach, Doral (Blue Monster)?.

St Andrews, Pebble, a place called Augusta and TPC at Sawgrass.

So where's the last one?

(Win a free satchel of vegemite!!! )

Originally Posted by Hooked Hacker

A few obvious ones.









But can anyone guess this next one? (Hint: It's not the Woy Woy Country Club! )

I'll go with Royal Melbourne as a very wild guess.

BINGO BINGO! We have a winner ladies.

Gopher, I thought you said you played in Melbourne ...

Most famous course in Australia, home to numerous Aussie Opens, "the fifth major."

Originally Posted by Hooked Hacker

So where's the last one?

(Win a free satchel of vegemite!!! )

In that case, I'm not gonna guess just in case I'm right

Originally Posted by Hooked Hacker

BINGO BINGO! We have a winner ladies.

Gopher, I thought you said you played in Melbourne ...

Most famous course in Australia, home to numerous Aussie Opens, "the fifth major"

Are you telling me that I'm right? Go figure. Anyway, send my case of Vegemite to Oldman (Shane). I owe him a few.

Originally Posted by Hooked Hacker

Gopher, I thought you said you played in Melbourne ...

Never played any courses in Melbourne. Quite a few on the Mornington Peninsula though. Moonah, Moonah Links, Eagle Ridge, The Dunes, and this beast:

The old course:



A ridiculously difficult course that apparently a lot of pro's refuse to play.

Damn, I had to work tonight and missed the competition. Thanks for the vegemite Tony. I was going to say Woy Woy Pitch and Putt, but I guess that would be wrong.

Originally Posted by Hooked Hacker

(Win a free satchel of vegemite!!! )

This is a prize!!!!!

I loveed the time I spent in AU, but that is one thing i couldn't wrap my head around...

An acquired taste amigo, like vintage wine!

If you've got any bottles of vintage wine lying around, I'll glady swap you for 2 cases of Vegimite

Must be right up there with natto, balut, and lima beans.

Good wine and Vegemite don't tend to last long at my gaff mate!

Vegimite n Haggis sandwiches with a nice bottle of red

Haven't brandished one of these before:



Favourite condiments is in a different thread

Who's knockin' vegemite...by the way Oldman, I owe you a few bob for that tube, don't I! Will pay next week.

As for the courses I'd love to play right now, first up, I'd like to play the local track in Woy Woy, Everglades it's called. A few pics for you folks who don't think WW has much of anything. I miss this place even though it's a bit short (par 68 I think.) Loads of good bunkering, tricky sloped greens, some tight holes and enough water to keep you honest.



Above is the 15th, a par 3, and one of the tougher holes which doesn't look anything special, but you really struggle to make par. Lots of little tricky holes like this. Below is the 7th, another tricky little par 4 with OB down the right to catch (all the) slices. I used to collect golf balls outside this hole along the road when I was a kid!



THe other course I'd like to play right now is Tuggerah Lakes, another local course one the coast. A total nightmare in the big blows, but loads of fun, gorgeous views of the surf, sea and dozens of tankers are constantly queued down the coast waiting to get into port.

THis hole below, the 5th has a blind tee shot over a mound, OB along the left and you hit into a two tiered, QUICK green. Enjoy the views, then focus coz it's disaster all round.



A shot from the air of the course



Would love to play Augusta, St. Andrews and Torrey Pines one day, the last probably being the most possible of the three. One day, when the kids are grown up.....

Now, hopefully this upload business works and the thread is still open! Took me a while to get this going""

The old Shelly Beach Golf Club at the end mate?

Everglades looks pretty good too. Any gators?

Some nice links courses there. A rare thing in Japan unfortunately....

Yeah shelley beach it's also (or was??) called too.

Probably gators in there, another big swamp by the 18th. We used to pick balls out of there too. Found a flagstick in there one day which I negotiated with the club-pro to swap for three orange topflite x-outs. I suppose someone had had a bad day putting though at the time I thought it was someone just having a laugh. Little did I know how frustrating a game it is and what it drives people to.

The 'great' courses look great but for me, I'd be just as happy playing those two local tracks. Lots of memories, a nice laid back walk round, and you can't embarass yourself too much at Everglades. If you're walking you're looking pretty good. Most of the oldies are driving round in their little mopeds with a golf cart welded on to it. some of them even have number plates and they drive them home!