Can you separate a golf course from the area?
Some architecture purists would claim that you can, and that you should in fact: that a course should only be assessed on its design, without taking into account what is outside the site.
But that is not how most golfers experience a round. Most of us – if we are not busy cutting or looking for lost balls – take the time to appreciate the world around us. We pause, that is, to admire the views. To put away. Rivers. Oceans. Valleys. The global canvas of Golf, with Eye Candy almost everywhere you turn, loves part of it.
In a recent episode of the Destination Golf podcast, my fellow guestheer Simon Holt and I were put into a discussion about this issue: what are the biggest views in the game?
Simon brought us to a higher note by placing his gaze: in Arai South in Nieuw -Zeeland, a stunner by the sea, designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, who can play anyone. If the less imaginative for the two of us, I went with something clear and closer to home: overseeing the back terrace at Cypress Point, which leads through a bunch of cypresses to the famous par-3 16th hole. Certainly an exclusive place. But my next choice was in fact public access, a municipal course, and a good reason to visit our neighbor to the north: Highland Links, in Nova Scotia, a design by Stanley Thompson that is one of the most picturesque walks in Golf in my book.
Simon went against other beauties, including the Front Nine in Royal County Down in Noord -Ireland (“It’s like something out of a crazy golf dream,” Simon said); the whole of Waterville in Ireland; And Cabot Point Hardy in St. Lucia, a site that almost has to be seen to believe.
We certainly missed something. Old head, for example, did not make our short list. You certainly have suggestions yourself. Send free to e -mail us at destination golfpodcast@gmail.com. And to listen to the latest episode of Destination Golf, click here.
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