Golf Digest Top 100
Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at 09:44 AM Here’s the introduction and top 50 of the Digest 100. Here’s the 2003 list so you can see what happens when they still had Tradition points (editorial tinkering) to save the panel from embarrassing itself. And this takes you to a PDF of the Top 100, while here’s the PDF of the Top 100 public list (viewer discretion is advised). There’s a link to the actual ranking numbers for each top 100 course, while this link takes you to the criteria and listings of new and former courses from the list. The best in each state are here. And finally, the Golfclubatlas.com discussion.
Nominations for most bizarre: A) Top 50 classics Baltimore and Wannamoisett dropping off the list, B) Flint Hills National debuting ahead of Riviera, Garden City and Kittansett (C) Rich Harvest Links making the list with some artificial turf tees, (D) Dallas National making it even though it finished 2nd in the 2003 Best New competition while #1 Black Rock and #3 Friars Head don’t cut it, (E) Mayacama (?!) over Valley Club and Pasatiempo, (F) The National Golf Links making the top 10, (G) The National Golf Links on the same list as Trump International.
Reader Comments (1)
95% of all golf courses are memorable only for the way they treated a particular player on a given day.What makes a course great is not just the design. but the membership, the condition of the course, the variety of the actual holes and the history of what has transpired there. To do away with the "tradition" portion of the rankings is a great injustice to places like Riviera, Baltusrol,Oakmont, OakHill etc.
Shadow Creek will NEVER be a "top 50" golf course and Trump and Atlantic will never be a top 100.
If I took the Golf Digest voters to Dyker Beach, filled them with whiskey and comped everything they saw or touched, i feel certain that my hospitality would be rewarded with a second 50 mention.