[trilochana.nejman]

I'm not talking about Links vs Woods or anything like that. Rather do you prefer narrow fairways, lots of doglegs, water on a lot of holes, elevated tee's or greens. Large PGA style greens or small postage stamped sized ones?

I don't mind narrow fairways at all & water is a fun obstacle. Huge greens are nice for your GIR but I prefer the small ones for some reason.

My absolute #1 criteria though is plenty of elevation changes, I love courses which have huge elevation changes from tee to green. Forced carries over ravines, water, etc. Nicely designed doglegs are great too.

I don't like straight holes with 100 yd wide fairways, very boring. No elevation differences at all is a big no-no also.

Courses which separate each hole well are nice, I prefer the feeling of solitude when on a course & don't like looking over & being to see another 2-3-4 holes.

Then you get the courses which seem to toss some lame 120 yd par 3 with absolutely no challenge or thought process tossed into it. It's as if the architect was done with the layout & all of sudden figured out they were 1 hole short, so they squeezed in a crummy par 3 somewhere.

There's not a whole lot I could add to that as your post pretty much sums up what I like in a course. I particularly agree with the "solitude" part. I like courses where each hole is like being in a separate "room".

There are, however, some links courses that I've played that despite being out in the open still have that private feeling on most holes, but those are rare. I also don't care for courses with basically the same theme throughout. There's a course near me called "The Woods at Cherry Creek" which is the narrowest course I've ever played. It's noted for its tree-lined, narrow fairways, but it's like that throughout the entire course and it gets a bit claustrophobic after a while.

But overall, what you wrote pretty much says it all for me.


-JP