Conference 7.286::golf

1454.0. ""Best Place To..."" by MRKTNG::VARLEY () Tue Feb 18 1992 14:16

    I recently re-read a collection of Dan Jenkins' golf stories, and I got
    a big kick out of a 3 or 4 page section titled "The Best Things In
    Golf." He lists a lot of special memories attached to golf, golf
    courses and people, and it's funny as well as nostalgic. I thought I'd
    start something off like this in hopes that some of y'all might be
    interested in other things than how to hold it, how to hit it, how to
    take it back, etc. Here goes, and these are just my personal thoughts.
    I'm sure you folks will give me some ideas, and fire up my thoughts.
    
    Best short par three - Number 9 at Myopia Hunt.
    
    Best long par three - Number 12 (I think) Royal Portrush, number 16 at
    Carnoustie, number 4 at Champions (Cypress Creek), Numbers 7 & 16 at
    International.
    
    Worst par three - Number 9 at Yale.
    
    Favorite par three - "The Mass Hole" at Waterville Links.
    
    Toughest long par 4 - Number 9 at Metedeconk National, Number 12 at
    Medinah # 3, Number 3 at The National Golf Links.
    
    Best Short par 4 - Number 11 at Merion, number 13 at Salem.
    
    Favorite long par 4 - Number 3 at Brookline (Open Course), Number 11 at
    Brookline (Open Course).
    
    Best short par 5 - Number 8 (I think, or 9) at Scioto.
    
    Best lunch - The National Golf Links and Bob O' Link.
    
    Best Windmill - The National Golf Links.
    
    Worst members - Worcester C.C. and Ekwanok.
    
    Best all men's club - Garden City Golf Club.
    
    Best drinks - Bob O' Link.
    
    Best shoeshine - Skokie C.C.
    
    Most imposing clubhouse - Congressional.
    
    Best logo - Merion, Burning Tree, Salem.
    
    Most paranoid members - Pine Valley (Talk business and you're out of
    the club).
    
    Fastest greens - Kitansett, Mount Pleasant, Waterbury.
    
    Prettiest U.S. links course - Fisher's Island, Maidstone.
    
    Toughest when the wind blows - Shinnecock Hills, Portmarnock, Royal
    County Down.
    
    Most overrated - Ballybunion (New course - sorry, Mr. Jones), Muirfield
    Village, the Old Course at St. Andrews.
    
    Best long par 5 - Number 17 at Baltusrol (Lower).
    
    Nicest pro shop folks - Crumpin-Fox, The Country Club (Farmington,
    Ct.).
    
    Best place to get loaded after a bad round - The deck at Crumpin-Fox,
    The Gazebo at the National Golf Links, Anthony's in Holyoke, Ma.
    
    Place whose ambience most closely resembles medieval England -
    Ridgewood (New Jersey). Also, "Strongest parking lot" (Tie with Skokie
    C.C.).
    
    Wealthiest - Century C.C.
    
    Best course that ignored all USGA requests to play a tournament there -
    Los Angeles C.C. (North).
    
    Course that could have been Augusta National and didn't make it -
    International.
    
    Most attractive female members - Rockaway Hunting Club.
    
    Best Cheeseburger at the 9th hole - Olympic (Lakeside).
    
    Best overall greens - Ekwanok.
    
    Fairest great course - Winged Foot (West).
    
    Best unheralded course - Winged Foot (East).
    
    Widest fairways - Pine Valley.
    
    Worst place to miss a fairway - Pine Valley.
    
    Most inconspicuous - Chevy Chase (No sign anywhere).
    
    Best Caddie - Billy at Merion.
    
    Best series of canyons containing a golf course - Bel-Air.
    
    Worst place to give your fiancee a charge card to shop with that's near
    a great golf course - Rodeo Drive (L.A. North).
    
    Worst cheeseburger - L.A. North.
    
    Softest fairways - Olympic (Lakeside).
    
    Most inaccessible but worth the boat ride - Fisher's Island.
    
    Golf tournament most likely to have deviants as contestants _ Burrows
    Invitational Golf Tournament.
    
    Best locker room attendant - Robert Johnson, Farmington C.C.
    
    Best course everyone should play once and probably haven't - Taconic.
    
    Best college course - 7 Oaks (Colgate), U.N.M. (South) - University of
    New Mexico.
    
    Nicest unheralded Donald Ross course - Winchester, Sagamore.
    
    Best place to be in lieu of the Baseball Hall of Fame while in
    Cooperstown, N.Y. - Leatherstocking Golf Course.
    
    Strongest bar - International. Johnnie Walker Black is a "Well drink."
    
    Most unique golf course on or near a Great Lake - Shoreacres. Also,
    best place to see deer near Chicago.
    
    Best towel - Metedeconk National, Burning Tree.
    
    Course least likely to be sold to the Japanese for $300 million -
    Century (They already turned it down...).
    
    Course described by members of a major golf architecture firm as an "18
    hole bar" - Crumpin-Fox.
    
    Course most likely to have members of a major golf architecture firm
    drinking while playing it - Crumpin-Fox.
    
    Favorite place to hang out, fish, teach junior golfers, drink beer,
    tell stories and even play golf - Crumpin-Fox.
    
     I hope this helps y'all with the mid-winter "Blahs." It was fun
    remembering, and I hope it gives you some laughs.
    
    --Jack
    
    
    
    
    

    
      * Most improved public course -               George Wright , Roslindale
    
      * Toughest golf crowd around (1970 to 1986?)  Fresh Pond, Cambridge
    
      * Most life insurance needed when playing     Franklin Park,Mattapan
    
      * Best "aura " or "feeling".                  Sawgrass,Ponte Vedra
    
      * Best par 5                                  18 N @ Stow Acres
    
      * Strangest #1 hole                           Cape Code , N Falmouth
                                                    and Castle Harbor,
                                                    Bermuda
       -ANG-