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Pete Dye Golf Club

Posted on May 23rd, 2009

West by God Virginia! That’s where I am today and the Pete Dye Golf Club is where I’m playing. Pete Dye is of course one of the most famous architects of modern times and has multiple courses on the Top 100. I’ve played a good number on the list as well as several of his other courses so I felt like I had a decent idea of what to expect. Pete Dye can be downright diabolical and with the rugged mountain terrain in Bridgeport, WV I had a feeling this course might be Pete Dye at his worst . . . or should I say best . . . I’m not really sure.

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Dallas National Golf Club

Posted on November 8th, 2008

I’m back in Texas for the second time this year – this time playing in Dallas at Dallas National Golf Club. This is another one of Fazio’s designs on the Top 100 list. I did a little research on the web about this club and my expectations were high based on what I read on the club’s site. Fazio himself said “If Dallas National were the only course I ever designed, I feel I would have had a great career.”

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Baltusrol Golf Club (Lower Course)

Posted on October 26th, 2008

My Baltursol experience began the day prior to my scheduled game. My host at Somerset Hills has a friend who not only graciously agreed to host me at Baltusrol but also made arrangments for me to spend the night in one of the rooms in the clubhouse. I was pretty excited about having the opportunity to stay in such a great club’s historic clubhouse. Because I had been rained out earlier in the day at Somerset Hills I spent the afternoon visiting the USGA Museum in Far Hills, NJ.

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Somerset Hills Country Club

Posted on October 25th, 2008

As has been the case many times in my Top 100 Odyssey, a stroke of blind luck put me in contact with a member of this club. Prior to playing there I knew little of Somerset Hills other than it was one of several Tillinghast designs on the Top 100 list located on the outskirts of New York City. It turns out that my blind stroke of luck was quite fortunate as Somerset Hills Country Club has only 200 members so if not for the good fortune I would have found myself facing another needle in a haystack drill.

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Oak Hill Country Club (East Course)

Posted on September 23rd, 2008

Sometimes I feel like the luckiest guy in the world. No, I’ve never won the lottery, discovered a hidden treasure or bumped into a rebound eager Jennifer Aniston fresh off her latest breakup, but I’ve had countless times where I’ve stopped myself and thought “How did a hayseed from Nebraska wind up here?” The day I played Oak Hill Country Club’s East Course was one of those days. Here I was playing golf at one of the world’s great courses on a day with PERFECT weather and with fantastic playing companions.

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Pine Valley Golf Club

Posted on August 20th, 2008

It was surprising to me in the weeks leading up to my trip to Pine Valley Golf Club how many golfers I ran across who were not familiar with the club. The most common question I get these days from my golf friends is “Where are you off to next?” When I would respond with “Pine Valley” more often than not I would receive a blank stare and the question “Where is that one?”

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Bethpage State Park (Black Course)

Posted on August 3rd, 2008

I cheated at Bethpage Black. Those of you who know me well know that if I am nothing else I am a die hard purist follower of the rules of golf. It is true though, I played the Black Course at Bethpage State Park and I cheated. As anyone who followed the stories about the U.S. Open’s groundbreaking visit to this municipal golf course knows, the only way to get on Bethpage’s Black Course is to park in a numbered spot and sleep in your car the night before you want to play.

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Winged Foot Golf Club (West Course)

Posted on August 2nd, 2008

Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, NY is a serious golf club. To say that these guys like golf is to say that the Pope likes Catholicism. Winged Foot has the distinct privilege of being the only club to have both of it’s courses (West and East) listed in the Top 100. There have been five U.S. Opens contested over the West Course which have produced the five champions Bobby Jones, Bill Casper, Hale Irwin, Fuzzy Zoeller and Geoff Ogilvy.

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Congressional Country Club (Blue Course)

Posted on July 8th, 2008

After several false starts and weather cancellations I finally made it to Congressional Country Club to play the Blue Course. My boss lives in Bethesda so I asked him if he knew any Congressional members. He put his wife on the task and about 2 hours later I received an email from a member who graciously offered to host me. We ended up emailing for nearly 8 months before we were able to work out a day that fit both of our schedules and wasn’t raining or oppressively hot.

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Merion Golf Club (East Course)

Posted on June 20th, 2008

Merion Golf Club . . . so much history has happened here that a book could be written on that alone. With a current count of 17 USGA events having been contested over Merion’s East Course that is more than any other course in the United States. Bobby Jones’ first major was the 1916 US Amateur played here, he won the US Amateur here in 1924 and of course his historic US Amateur win for the Grand Slam in 1930. Ben Hogan executed a miraculous comeback to the game here at the 1950 US Open after a near death automobile accident just 1 year earlier.

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