You Wanna Play the Golf Digest Top 100?
by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 16, 2009 11:43 AM EDT
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PrintA couple of weeks ago, we released the Golf Digest Top 100 list before it hit their site - thanks to the good folks at Golf Club Atlas. Since that list has come out, the gang at Links Life Golf went ahead and ran some numbers on how much it would cost to actually play some of the courses on the list. Yikes. (Thanks to Jay Busbee for linking to these mortifying details. My wallet feels light.)
Pebble Beach Golf Links: Greens Fees are $495 and you have to stay on site at $595 per night, with a two night minimum (2 per room). That’s $1090 per round. One time before I die!
The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island: Have to stay on site with a package. Cheapest I could get on the website is $374 per person and $120 surcharge for the Ocean Course. That’s $494 and carts are on the paths, always!
TPC Sawgrass, Stadium Course: $375 gets you on "The Players Championship" course. Bring some cheap balls for seventeen.
I think I could only play any of those places if they let me also drive a cart that looks like this.
And, as you may expect, the best of the bunch:
Bethpage Black: This is the best bargain of the bunch. Non residents of New York State will spend $125 to play this year’s US Open course (New Yorkers=$65). You can’t beat that!
Thank God for media day! I love the game a lot. I love playing new courses. But I am not that kind of baller to be able to play these places.
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Funny how the dollar amount...
…for, say, Pebble, is approximately commensurate with my likely score should I be able to afford to play there.
Sigh. At least I’d get my money’s worth, I suppose.
"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." - Winston Churchill
Well played. Honestly, I would play 2 balls if I played Pebble.
by Ryan Ballengee on Apr 16, 2009 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions
There are several things that I still
do even with the financial crunch but Golf unfort is one of those things that I cut back on.
Those prices are a reason why
I've heard that getting on Bethpage is impossible
You essentially can’t get in a round in the summer in Bethpage unless you stand in line at 4am.
top 100
Pebble is worth every penny that they now steal from you to play there. It is like walking in the sistine Chapel of golf, but I agree that Beth Page Black is the bargin of the lot, expecially if you are a New York State Resident…. Whistling Straits is another winner, on the shore of Lake Michinga. 18 or so of the top 100 are resorts or public access… and I suggest trying to play them all—— I have played the entire Golf Digest Top 100 (completed in 2002) and wrote a book about my experience A GOLFERS DREAM; HOW A REGULAR GUY CONQUERED THE GOLF DIGEST LIST OF AMERICAS TOP 100 GOLF COURSES.!!
Larry Berle
www.GolfersDreamBook.com
“steal from you” ?? Pebble prices its rounds according to demand. They charge that much because they CAN charge that much and people are willing to pay it. If they charged $100 a round, the course would look like a crater on the moon inside of a year because they would be playing 4-somes 8 minutes apart. It would be impossible to keep the course in good shape. They price according to what the market allows.
Larry – you said it yourself – Pebble is a “cathedral” of golf – people from around the world want to play there. There aren’t enough hours in the day to let everybody play there who want to play.
Sounds like a good read ! I’ll have to pick up a copy. That had to be some of the most fun “research” ever. Give us a tease – how hard was it to get on Pine Valley ? Is that still the hardest course to get on ?
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
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