Best Golf Courses played

[Brock Landers]

Hey guys,

i am getting into golf big time lately, not watching, but playing. I just got a new set of Calloway Big Bertha woods and irons and its really helping my game as the clubs are very forgiving.

Anyway, just wondering what were the best courses you guys have personally played on. I have tried a bunch of different courses in Illinois, Cog Hill is there at the top being a public course. I got an opportunity last fall to play the toughest as far as a combo of rating, 76+ and Slope 147 go and that was a place called Bull Valley Golf Club in Woodstock, Illinois. I got an invite to play and will get to play again this suummer when the foliage will be full, that should be some major challenege.

So i would rank the courses i have played as

1)Bull Valley Golf Club - Woodstock, IL
2)Cog Hill (not dubs dread) - Lemont, IL
3)Eagle Creek Resort - Findlay, IL
5)Harborside International - Chicago, IL
6)The Course at Aberdeen - Valpariaso, IN

Plus numerous other shitty municipal courses not worth mentioning...

Anyone played these courses? Lets hear some tales!

 

[G.MONEY]

BROCK,

PLAYED THEM ALL IN IL THE 3 TOUGHEST I HAVE PLAYED ARE IN NO ORDER:

MEDINA #3

OLYMPIA FIELDS ...US OPEN COURSE

BUTLER NATIONAL.....

BROCK WERE DO YOU LIVE IN IL. ?....

 

[Brock Landers]

Champaign...through grew up in Calumet City.

How have you been able to play those courses?? They are all private and closed.

I went to HS in Chicago Heights, blocks away from Olympia Fields CC.

You know of and played BVGC? Thats one hell of a nice course.

Planning on playing Hertiage Bluffs in Channahon this saturday of the weather cooperates.

 

[blueedwards]

bull valley is a great course. harborside is brutal though.

best for me...medinah country club (no, i am not a member).

 

[Brock Landers]

I am considering joining Lincolnshire Fields CC here in Champaign, i live 5 blocks away from the course, only thing is I like to travel around and play with my buds up in the Chicago area..

Anyone here belong to a CC?? Pro's and Cons?

 

[Fezzik]

Poplar Creek C.C. is a great reasonable CHicago course.

 

[Brock Landers]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by blue edwards:
bull valley is a great course. harborside is brutal though.

best for me...medinah country club (no, i am not a member).<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

How did you play either of these Blue without being a member? I got lucky and called the Head Pro at Bull Valley and he invited me..

 

[blueedwards]

i have a job that requires a lot of golf. about 5 or 6 times a year, a get to play at a cc. i have played bull valley twice and shot over 105 both times. i think its harder than medinah...and that's saying somthing.

i have played at inverness cc and rolling green cc as well. those are nice but not even close to medinah.

 

[Fishhead]

1. Spring Valley--Livermore, Iowa
2. Shadow Creek--Las Vegas, Nv.
3. The Desert Inn--Las Vegas, Nv.

 

[Brock Landers]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by blue edwards:
i have a job that requires a lot of golf. about 5 or 6 times a year, a get to play at a cc. i have played bull valley twice and shot over 105 both times. i think its harder than medinah...and that's saying somthing.

i have played at inverness cc and rolling green cc as well. those are nice but not even close to medinah.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

You have a job that "Requires" you to play golf??

Now thats a job i would like to have! LOL

 

[squirrelsear]

southern hills tulsa ok

 

[peskypup]

Thes best golf courses are all in the UK and they are all links courses.

 

[Horseshoe]

Spyglass & Big Sur/Carmel is heaven on Earth..love Rio Grill, Il Fornaio, Lenny's Deli, The Barnyard, Nepenthe,etc..but hate that Hog's Breath closed.

Wynn better come up aces..hated to see the DI & it's course go out like that!

 

[winkyduck]

for me - probably the putt-putt nearby. it's not as easy as it looks getting that ball into the windmill or clown's mouth!

 

[blueedwards]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Brock Landers:
You have a job that "Requires" you to play golf??

Now thats a job i would like to have! LOL<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

i do a lot of customer entertaining...golf and cubs games are the main events.

it is usually pretty fun but, depending on who the customer is, it can be a grind.

 

[gb9327]

i have had the pleasure of playing pine valley and merion country club. At one time these courses where ranked one and four as the best in the country respectively.

Once Jack Nicklaus was playing at Pine Valley and his wife drove up to the gate and the guard asked who she was and she replied that she is Mrs. Nicklaus and she was here to see here husband. The guard told her that was great but she would have to wait outside as there are no woman allowed on the grounds.

 

[fivedoorsdown]

best brentwoods north course.
worst pinegrove country club.

 

[G.MONEY]

BLUE AND BROCK...CAN YOU GUYS EMAIL ME AND I WILL BRING YOU OUT AS MY GUEST TO A CLUB WERE I HAVE A OWNING INTERST IN....G.

PAG713@AOL.COM

 

[Brock Landers]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by phillygus:
i have had the pleasure of playing pine valley and merion country club. At one time these courses where ranked one and four as the best in the country respectively.

Once Jack Nicklaus was playing at Pine Valley and his wife drove up to the gate and the guard asked who she was and she replied that she is Mrs. Nicklaus and she was here to see here husband. The guard told her that was great but she would have to wait outside as there are no woman allowed on the grounds.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

GREAT story!! LOL

 

[blueedwards]

g-money...you have mail.