The Top 10 new golf courses of 2007
A view of hole 14 at Chambers Bay in Tacoma.
A magazine by the name of name of Travel + Leisure Golf has released its list of top ten new golf courses of 2007 in the world. Good to see both the Pacific Northwest and Canada represented in the list, though I am surprised that no fewer than three in this top ten list are from the Pacific Northwest, goes to show you how much of a golfing destination we are here. If you’re planning on heading to play Chambers Bay, take a look at some things to do in Seattle while you are there.
1. Chambers Bay, Tacoma, Washington
2. Golf Club at Ravenna, Littleton, Colorado
3. Stonebrae Country Club, Hayward, California
4. The Home Course, DuPont, Washington
5. Promontory, Painted Valley Course, Park City, Utah
6. The Golf Club of Cape Cod, Falmouth, Massachusetts
7. Creek Club at Reynolds Plantation, Greensboro, Georgia
8. Kinloch Club, Kinloch, New Zealand
9. Gozzer Ranch Golf & Lake Club, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
10. Cobble Beach Golf Links, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
When I first read the list, I thought it was the top ten golf courses in the world period. Then I’m going through the list and I’m saying to myself, I don’t know a single name on the list. I thought I knew my golf, but if I can’t recognize any of the top ten golf courses in the world, I must be dumbest golfing SOB on this planet.
Then I read “new” and “2007″ and then it all made sense. As these are all new courses, I’ve obviously never been to any of them. But from experience, I never like playing on brand new courses. There is a feeling of fakeness, like the conditions have been altered and are incompatible with the natural surroundings. Like a creek where there wasn’t a creek before. Or clear cutting of trees where it was obvious that there was a cluster before. I usually like playing on courses that have been around for 20 years or more, they feel much more natural in the way the course and the surroundings fit together, the birds are in places where they are suppose to be.
Tiger Woods, European Tour, Dubai World Championship
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