My 7 favorite Augusta Regional Golf Courses ranked by their accessibility

Augusta, Ga. – Earlier this year, partly for my own entertainment, and for those still reading books, I made a list of them in Augusta and around and around and some of my favorite courses. From the most difficult to the least difficult situation, I listed them on their accessibility. I don’t know what to do with Augusta’s Six Hole First Tee course, mainly because it’s a Six Hole course. That’s a solid one. Anyway, here’s how the list swings:

1. Augusta Country. Have played it a few times. Good course. What they didn’t tell you on the golf channel or elsewhere is that there is no grass under your ball. So, unless you have some Seve, good night and good luck.

2. Augusta Country Club. Old Southern course. Very fun and playable (a ball should be done), and now, after Helene, you can see the roof of the Augusta National Club club from the midway house. In fact, both courses extend to Rae’s Creek.

3. Palmetto Golf Club. In Aiken, South Carolina, cross the Savannah River from Augusta, half an hour away. Private, comfortable club, Patricks with a noble past, and a hot dog steamer for your medium calorie needs. After heavy rain, ancient golf balls rise from their turf. The course gradually celebrates and celebrates comfort in traditional course maintenance is a lasting value.

4. West Lake Country Club. Courses in housing development in the suburbs of town and its almost near Furys Ferry Road in the country. It’s not a memorable course, but many of us (the golf ass impersonated like writers) have been a frequent appearance over the years, which is provided by Masters-Week Week House Rentals.

5. Forest Mountain Golf Club. Augusta owned and operated by Augusta University, some of them were very Donald Rossy (with several holes, D. Ross grabbed his head to his wool hat). The trademark of Georgia Golf is an elevated T-shirt, a bull head, elevated green. Pine needles; tall pine tree. As Ross said in his rescue method, he once said FH gotz.

6. Aiken Golf Club. I should point out that the counter guys won’t let me pay the green fees here, which is kind, but robbed me of the chance to fork over $30, cash currency and get change. Green costs $28 after 1pm. As the song progresses, the afternoon golf is in the public course, with the back of the bag. One of mys plays Monday after graduation. There isn’t even 5800 yards of 3 poles and double veggies. Go straight to Scotland.

7. Augusta Municipal Golf Course, also known as patch. If you have never played it, you will be doing a new course. Last year, Hurricane Helen cut more than 1,000 trees, and the course has been closed since January 1, not because of storm damage, but because of overhauling the course, which is provided by some well-aware golf philanthropists who have a connection with the Augusta National Team. The old patches were baked, tilted and weird, but also fun. The new patch will be different. Whether it is better is another question. On a golf course, just like other aspects of life, it is better in the eyes of a lover.

However, most bystanders will consider Palmetto, Augusta Country Club and Augusta National to be memorable and outstanding courses. If you enter a golf course building, or just play golf, your life will be richer. (Especially – Fill in the blanks.) Three places (almost) are three. I’m not saying that the bigger Augusta is because of golf Mecca, Philadelphia (my long-term residence) or New York (born and raised) or Chicago (who was engaged there), but it has heavy golf magnets. Ben Crenshaw will tell you. The same goes for Rees Jones, the architect son of architect Robert Trent Jones. Herbert Warren Wind wrote how Bobby Jones attracted Augusta’s Augusta before the Augusta National.

In 1989, I asked Crenshaw (at that time there was a Master Win), Trent Jones (a commendable for Augusta National’s strategic use of water in the last nine games) and Wind (they came up with this quote Amen Corner), named the three great golf buildings in the United States. Crenshaw’s list goes to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago. Trent Jones’s order was Philadelphia, Chicago, New York. The ranking of wind is Chicago, Philadelphia, New York. I don’t remember Augusta taking part in these conversations, which took place a few weeks after the ’89 Masters.

Recently, I asked a similar question to Gil Hanse: What does he think of the great American golf capital?

“Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, San Francisco,” he said. Gil, who lives in a semi-rural suburb of Philadelphia, said of our adopted home, “Philadelphia has two great men in history, and it’s a very deep bench. In the most pressing areas, the pound, the pound, the pound, are the best!” Of course, Pine Valley and Merion.

From there, Hans went to New York: “Arguably the best lineup, but fined for being distributed in large geographic areas.” Yes. Given the mood of the Long Island Expressway, it can take three hours to connect the National Golf on Long Island to Quick Ridge in Westchester County.

Then, Chicago: “Like Philadelphia, two top all-coaches, but the bench isn’t that strong.” I’m pretty sure the Chicago GC is on his roster. I will update YA when I find his number 2! Probably Medina. More likely to be lighter.

Finally, hitting fourth, San Francisco:

“Talking about a compact center of gravity – an extension from Cal Club to Harding Park and other courses in between, if you grab the grass club in the north and Pasatiempo in the south is more.” Of course, both courses at the San Francisco Golf Club and the Olympics are in this fertile range.

I asked Jill about the Great Augusta and whether it was worth considering, and that’s what he said:

“I thought about this, but it’s actually only three to four deep. Augusta Country, Palmeto, Old Barnwell and the tree farm. In my humble opinion, nothing else will smell the top 10 in other cities.”

I haven’t played Old Barnwell or a tree farm. For me, it is impossible to pull Augusta Country Club out of this list. As for Aiken Golf Club courses, I’m not saying it’s world-class in the traditional sense. But it’s public, cheap and fun.

A few years ago, his life and distribution Golf Digest, George Plimpton poked it in the Masters. He stumbled upon a member of Augusta’s national who was covered in green coated on a green golf cart and asked, “How did you get into this nice club?”

Plimpton described the way the exchange was: “In a moment, he studied what I think is called the middle distance. Then he said, ‘There are some application gaps in the clubhouse,”He drove away.’

So, there is. It’s all through American golf. There is a kick-off time for every last course in Scotland.

Aiken GC follows the imitation. If you want to play there, just call the store and see when the first T-shirt will open. Most afternoons are good.

Oh, and this is from Gil Hanse, about his first two Chicago courses: It yes Chicago GC on the nose, nose.

He said: “In my book, it’s actually more like 1 and 1a, and it’s very close.”

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