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Richard Smith
I'm a member of Holston Hills Country Club in Knoxville Tennessee. Holston is an old Donald Ross layout that is essentially unchanged from its original design over 75 years ago. I usually play between a 1 to a 5 handicap and enjoy playing in local and statewide tournaments. I fell in love with links golf on my first trip to the UK in 1980, and I've had the privilege of playing all of the current and past venues of the Open Championship, having completed the rotation several years ago when I was able to play Musselburgh Old. I'm trying to branch out and play as many top courses as possible and will try my best to give an honest and interesting review of the courses I play.
The Grove is a modern Greg Norman design located just southeast of the metro Nashville area. The course is set in a very high end housing development with some of the su...
This course was originally one of the TPC course developments sponsored by the PGA tour. Essentially what you have is a housing development that happens to have a golf c...
First off I have to say I am a big Mike Stranz fan. I have played Caledonia and True Blue multiple times through the years and I am a big fan of Tobacco Road. On a rece...
Raleigh is likely Donald Ross’s last design and I must say he finished on a high note. The course is set on beautiful rolling land just east of the city. The course flo...
Treyburn is a nice Tom Fazio design just north of Durham, North Carolina. He course is laid out among rolling hills and has some pretty significant elevation changes thr...
Old Town is a 1939 Perry Maxwell design set on a beautiful piece of rolling land just north of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Led by the efforts of Dunlop White III Old...
This is a stunning Fazio design that rates among the best Fazio courses I have played. By chance my wife and I met a member last year in California and he invited us to...
Both courses at Grayhawk are solid desert courses that are fun to play. I would say that neither course is outstanding but both courses are well conditioned, aesthetical...
Wow I really enjoyed this course. I played both courses at We-ko-pa and I thought the Saguaro to be both the stronger of the two courses and much more fun to play. The...
I was able to play the Cholla course on a recent trip to the Scottsdale area. This is a rambling spread out course designed around many of the washes in the area. The c...
I was able to play Spanish Bay as part of a recent trip to the Pebble Beach resort. I played Pebble and Spyglass Hill on my last visit over 5 years ago so I decided to t...
This is a beautiful, fun challenging course that everyone should take the opportunity to play. I can't imagine that there is a much better daily fee course in American o...
I was able arrange a round at the Dunes course at Monterey Peninsula Country Club on a recent trip to the area. My wife and I played Pasatiempo, Spanish Bay, Pebble Beac...
Cherokee is a Donald Ross design that is squeezed in between a ridge that overlooks the Tennessee River and a railroad track that borders the northern edge of the propert...
Okay how do you rank a 13 hole par three course as the 11th best course in a state that has some pretty decent layouts? Maybe get Coore and Crenshaw to throw the course...
Somehow Bandon Trails comes up fourth in all the rankings for the Bandon Courses, but to think that implies anything less than an outstanding course is a huge mistake. T...
Pacific Dunes is generally regarded as the best of the Bandon Courses. This is an incredible design with a number of cliffside holes. The holes off the ocean are not la...
The second day of my recent trip took me to Old Macdonald. For me this course was far and away the most links like of the four courses. This course epitomizes what I co...
This was the first course my wife and I played on our recent trip to Bandon. I had heard many great things about this course so I was eager to see what the excitement wa...
DeBordieu is, for lack of a better term, a rather typical Dye course without a lot to distinguish the course from others in the area. Lots of water hazards to negotiate...
