Top 100 Courses I’ve Played – December 2015
It’s the end of a very eventful year in The Golf Club and in the TGC Tours community. As the weather starts to (kind of) get colder, the competition in the Top 100 list is heating up. In the grand scheme of the entire TGC database, 100 courses is not actually that big of a number, so good courses will be pushed out of the Top 100 each month. To counter this, I will be occasionally doing some smaller, themed lists, so stay tuned.
The highest-ranked newcomer to the Top 100 this month is actually an older course, Tobacco Dunes, which comes in at 21st. Escalante Steps (23rd), Royal Birkdale 2015 (25th), The Capilano Club (28th), and Harvest Plantation (29th) round out the top 5 newcomers. On the opposite end of the list, Boardsmans Bush becomes the last course knocked out of the Top 100, previously sitting at 86th in November.
As always, if you would like your course played and reviewed, please make a request here.
Bison Run by Brian Jeffords
Top 100 Courses I’ve Played – December
| Rank | Name | Designer | Last Month |
| 1 | Whistling Staits, Sheboygan | Craig Frey | 1 |
| 2 | Pine Valley, New Jersey | Craig Frey | 2 |
| 3 | Oceanic Athletic Club | Adam Benjamin | 3 |
| 4 | Loa Pali Golf Resort | Dario Logan | 4 |
| 5 | Old Beaver Creek – Championship | Bill Rader & Brian Jeffords | 5 |
| 6 | Bison Run | Brian Jeffords | 6 |
| 7 | Pebble Beach Golf Links (blacks) | Brandon Pugh | 7 |
| 8 | The Timberwolf | Andre Quenneville | 8 |
| 9 | Muirfield | Yeltzman | 9 |
| 10 | Bailiwick Grand Golf Club | Job Fickett & Dan Hebert | 10 |
| 11 | Halton Beach | Dan Hebert | 11 |
| 12 | Columbia National Golf Links | Brian Jeffords | 12 |
| 13 | Freshwater Golf Club | Adam Benjamin | 13 |
| 14 | Firestone CC South | Brandon Pugh | 14 |
| 15 | Hoodoo Hills: Remastered | Bryan Cowles | 15 |
| 16 | Skull Valley Golf Club – Outlaw | Steve Pope | 16 |
| 17 | Spyglass Hill 2015 | yeltzman | 17 |
| 18 | Dovetail Park Golf Club | Simon Morris | 18 |
| 19 | Le Golf National | Dean Lowden | 19 |
| 20 | Vallentuna Golfklubb – Sweden | Mikael Thunberg | 20 |
| 21 | Tobacco Dunes | Steve Pope | New |
| 22 | St. Lorin Golf Club, Baumgarten Is. Hawaii #1 | David Jensen | 21 |
| 23 | Escalante Steps (Par 3) | Brian Jeffords | New |
| 24 | Celtic Vineyard Golf Club | Adam Benjamin | 22 |
| 25 | Royal Birkdale 2015 | Yeltzman | New |
| 26 | TGC @ the Engish Rose (Thurs) | Wendy Airey | 23 |
| 27 | Eighteen at Strawberry Plains | Todd Driver | 24 |
| 28 | The Capilano Club | Andre Quenneville | New |
| 29 | Harvest Plantation | Todd Driver | New |
| 30 | Valgrind Golf Club | Joseph Bowling | 25 |
| 31 | TGC Players’ Club – Stadium Course | Dario Logan | 26 |
| 32 | The Homestead | Brian Jeffords / Andre Quenneville | 27 |
| 33 | Kahiko Beach Golf and Surf Club | Andre Quenneville | 28 |
| 34 | Royal Ballylough | Rod Simpson | 29 |
| 35 | Mistwood Golf Course | William Bradford | 30 |
| 36 | Grand Epson V1 | Wendy Airey | 31 |
| 37 | King Kyne Royal Tropicana | David Jensen | 32 |
| 38 | Hocking Hills Country Club (Thursday) | Tim Jaquith | New |
| 39 | Falcon Bay Sunday Pin | Todd Driver | 33 |
| 40 | Sleepy Willow CC (Blacks) | Brandon Pugh | 34 |
| 41 | Rivington Hall | Martyn Shaw | 35 |
| 42 | Thousand Island Golf and CC | Bryan Boomer | 36 |
| 43 | PGA West (Palmer) [Sunday] | Rod Simpson | 37 |
| 44 | Sugar Hills: TGC Edition | John Rubenkoenig | 38 |
| 45 | El Caiman CG | Enrique De Guzman | 39 |
| 46 | The Red October G&CC | Mick Pitcher | 40 |
| 47 | Royal Troon Old Course 2015 | Yeltzman | 41 |
| 48 | Elmview – Open Day 1 | Brian Jeffords | 42 |
| 49 | Chicago Golf Club | JELindholm | New |
| 50 | Cohutta Country Club | Todd Driver | New |
| 51 | The Par 3 Course at Flora Park | Elliot Caw | 43 |
| 52 | The Walker Course Clemson, SC | William Bradford | New |
| 53 | Turnberry Kintyre Course | Alan McSpadyen | 44 |
| 54 | Songbird Country GC | Roger Ramjet | 45 |
| 55 | Burberry Black | superace33 | 46 |
| 56 | Blue Oak Country Club | Brett Carr | 47 |
| 57 | Valefor 2015 | Elliot Caw | 48 |
| 58 | TGC @ Murky Hollow | John Rubenkoenig | 49 |
| 59 | Cairn Orchard | Dale Burger | 50 |
| 60 | New South Flower | Ola Ericsson | 51 |
| 61 | Briarbanks Country Club | Brandon Pugh | 52 |
| 62 | Tropic of Capricorn | Stephen McIntyre | 53 |
| 63 | Longdale Pikes | Jeremy Holme | 54 |
| 64 | Celebration Cove | Jeff Reese | 55 |
| 65 | Royal Blackburn | Chris Lane | New |
| 66 | Hau’oli Mino’aka | Stephen Templar | 56 |
| 67 | Zewina Golf Club | Mikael Thunberg | 57 |
| 68 | Fraxinus Country Club | Andrew Sikorski | 58 |
| 69 | TGC @ Gull Island (Tour) | David Jensen | 59 |
| 70 | Lac De Verde Golf Club | Dean Lowden | 60 |
| 71 | Waltzing Matilda Golf Club | Stephen Templer | New |
| 72 | The Club at Ridenour – Thursday | Tyler Duke | 61 |
| 73 | New Bronze Leaf Resort Goldclub | Roger Ramjet | 62 |
| 74 | Potomac Country Club | Brandon Pugh | 63 |
| 75 | Tri-Lakes Golf and Fishing Resort | Kelly Rayburn | 64 |
| 76 | The Traditional | Wayne Adams | 65 |
| 77 | Hunter Forest (US Open) | Keith Callahan | 66 |
| 78 | Evergreen Trails | Steve Sloan | New |
| 79 | Blackhawk Forest CC | Roger Ramjet | 67 |
| 80 | Harvest Hills | Gene Callahan | 68 |
| 81 | Abaddon Golf Club USO Edition | Bobby Anderson | 69 |
| 82 | Loon Lake State Park | Gene Callahan | 70 |
| 83 | Cuyahoga Golf Club | Dario Logan | 71 |
| 84 | Angel Downs | Jeremy Holme | 72 |
| 85 | Pinehill Country Club | Joe Greenhalgh | 73 |
| 86 | Kapalua Bay Golf Club | Bryan Boomer | 74 |
| 87 | Fishers GC – Fishers Island, NY | Matthew Essig | 75 |
| 88 | Baron Hills Complex (matured) | Mick Pitcher | 76 |
| 89 | Old York Golf Club | Steve Sloan | 77 |
| 90 | TGC Trails @ Adirondack National – Members | M.J. Hunt | 78 |
| 91 | Legacy Trace | Jeff Michael | 79 |
| 92 | St. Andrews Old Course 2015 | colinmafia | 80 |
| 93 | Bad Munstereifel | UrsusArctos + ErnieTheWels | 81 |
| 94 | King Memorial at Creole Isle | Jason Wert | 82 |
| 95 | Aurora Oaks Country Club | Ryan O’Donnell | 83 |
| 96 | Sierra Nevada Club de Golf | Raul Morales | New |
| 97 | TPC @ Bay City | Brett Carr | New |
| 98 | Squire Hills | Jason Wert | 84 |
| 99 | Heineken Golf & Beer Club | Jimmy Sheridan | New |
| 100 | Marquesas Resort & Golf Club V2 | Inflames47 | 85 |
Any updates on your favorites? I just purchased and started playing.