Windiest Golf Courses
Paul Harber
I am writing an article and I am trying to put together a list of the
windiest golf courses in America. I am starting with Sankaty Head on
Nantucket Island off the Massachusetts coast, where the flagsticks are
about 3/4 of an inch thick. Another course I have been told where the wind
blows fiercely is Palm Beach (Fla.) Par-3 Golf Course. I am looking for
other courses around the States. Do you have any candidates for the list?
William R Frisbee
Paul Harber (ppha...@ziplink.net) wrote:
: I am writing an article and I am trying to put together a list of the
New Seabury (Cape Cod)
The Links at Key Biscayne (Miami)
Pompano Beach Golf Course
Eagle Trace
Chuck West
I nominate White Mountain Golf Club in Rock Springs, WY. At about 7000 feet
eleva nd with no tree taller than a golf cart, the wind howls there,
especially in the late afternoon. I was playing in a group once where on the
last hole, one of the golfers with me hit a long chipacross the green and
missed the hole by 10 feet, leaving himself what he thought was a long par
putt. As he bent over to mark his ball, a gust of wind came and his ball
started rolling, ending up in the hole for a birdie.
Larry Clark
LaPurisma shuld be included. It's in Lompoc, Calif. which is on one of
the western most tips of Calif and the wind blows 365 days a year and
most of the time at 40mph plus after noon.
Greg Eddlemon
I played The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island a couple of years ago and
it was pretty windy....
I don't have experience with many other coastal courses, so this is my
nominee.
On 17 Nov 1996 23:44:11 GMT, wfri...@uoguelph.ca (William R Frisbee)
wrote:
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>I am writing an article and I am trying to put together a list of the
>windiest golf courses in America. I am starting with Sankaty Head on
>Nantucket Island off the Massachusetts coast, where the flagsticks are
>about 3/4 of an inch thick. Another course I have been told where the wind
>blows fiercely is Palm Beach (Fla.) Par-3 Golf Course. I am looking for
>other courses around the States. Do you have any candidates for the list?
So which do you want? Those in America (as in North America) or those in the
US?
You have to keep in mind that the US is only part of North America and there
is also a South America.
Kenneth Pitts
On 17 Nov 1996 00:33:54 GMT, "Paul Harber" <ppha...@ziplink.net>
wrote:
>I am writing an article and I am trying to put together a list of the
>windiest golf courses in America. I am starting with Sankaty Head on
>Nantucket Island off the Massachusetts coast, where the flagsticks are
>about 3/4 of an inch thick. Another course I have been told where the wind
>blows fiercely is Palm Beach (Fla.) Par-3 Golf Course. I am looking for
>other courses around the States. Do you have any candidates for the list?
>
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LaPurisima in Lompoc California.
Ken
Chris Craig
In article <01bbd41f$8569d1c0$38fce8c7@ppharber>,
Paul Harber <ppha...@ziplink.net> wrote:
>I am writing an article and I am trying to put together a list of the
>windiest golf courses in America.
My two submissions:
CC of New Seabury (Blue), Mashpee, MA
Kiawah Island (Ocean), Kiawah Island, SC
I have played New Seabury in such wildly varying conditions that, on
the ~420 yd 3rd hole, I have hit driver, 3-wood, 5-iron and I have
also hit driver, half sand wedge.
I just returned from Kiawah Island where I played the Ocean Course
three times. We had sustained 30 mph winds on two of the days, and it
certainly makes the round interesting :-) I was reminded of my trip
to Scotland last summer.
Chris
Byron H Johnson III
One of the windiest courses I've ever played is Poipu Bay on Kauai HI.
It's 20-35 mph always, not counting gusting!
Annother is Dayton Valley just outside of Reno in NV. Very windy every
afternoon!
Byron Johnson
William R Frisbee <wfri...@uoguelph.ca> wrote in article
<56o80b$a...@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca>...
> Paul Harber (ppha...@ziplink.net) wrote:
> : I am writing an article and I am trying to put together a list of the
> : windiest golf courses in America. I am starting with
golfr...@aol.com
Sandpines in Florence Oregon
Salishan in Gleneden Oregon
Astoria in Astoria Oregon
When the wind gets going on the Oregon coast watch out. Also, the course
in the Columbia River Gorge near Hood River (where all the wind surfers
go.)
John Vander Borght
golfr...@aol.com
"Golf is not a game of perfect" - Dr. Bob Rotella
targe...@aol.com
west coast windys....
Desert Dunes (Palm Springs)-when its up, 5 clubs and absolutely hard as
hell...nothing but sagebrush and fairways...
La Purisima (as mentioned in previous post). Wait till the last 2 rounds
of Q-school are on it this year!
Boulder City (Las Vegas)-40-50 MPH b oth times I was there (winter and
summer)...hit driver 7 iron on 480 yard par 5; next holw upwind was 220
par 3, more like Par 4....
finally, my home course Wood Ranch, 2-3 clubs every afternoon after 11AM;
if Santa Anas are up more like 4....
Frank Strazzulla
Harlan Whitley
Heck, any golf course in Texas is windy. Especially last weekend at
Ridgeview Ranch, in Plano, Texas, average 35mph winds and gusty.
Harlan
Jennifer Morgan
Chuck West wrote:
>
> > I am writing an article and I am trying to put together a list of the
> > Nantucket Island off the Massachusetts coast, where the flagsticks are
> > about 3/4 of an inch thick.
The Tony Lema golf course in San Leandro, CA is brutal almost every day
of the year. The south to north holes (about 9 of 'em) turn a 10 yard
fade into an 80 yard slice....unbelievable.
Des Thomas
How about A non-USA course? Milnerton in South Africa where in the same
round but in differnt directions I have hit a 6 iron 202 metres (224
yards) and a four iron (struck well) 98 metres (108 yards).
This is a links course between the sea and a lagoon with large contoured
coastal bent grass greens totalling nearly 7000 yards. A real handfull
in windy conditions.
Des
Larry Botkin
wfri...@uoguelph.ca (William R Frisbee) wrote:
>Paul Harber (ppha...@ziplink.net) wrote:
>: I am writing an article and I am trying to put together a list of the
>: windiest golf courses in America. I am starting with Sankaty Head on
>: Nantucket Island off the Massachusetts coast, where the flagsticks are
>: about 3/4 of an inch thick. Another course I have been told where the wind
>: blows fiercely is Palm Beach (Fla.) Par-3 Golf Course. I am looking for
>: other courses around the States. Do you have any candidates for the list?
>
>New Seabury (Cape Cod)
>The Links at Key Biscayne (Miami)
>Pompano Beach Golf Course
>Eagle Trace
>
My nomination is the Gabe Lozano course in Corpus Christi Texas. A
public course with big time wind off of the bay.
Larry Botkin
bot...@jorsm.com
Denis Barsalo
> Chuck West wrote:
> >
> > > I am writing an article and I am trying to put together a list of the
> > > windiest golf courses in America. I am starting with Sankaty Head on
> > > Nantucket Island off the Massachusetts coast, where the flagsticks are
> > > about 3/4 of an inch thick.
Any one of the course in Bermuda gets a fair share of wind. When you have
an island that is 17 miles long by half a mile wide, stuck in the middle of
nowhere.... now I call that windy!
bi...@imssys.imssys.com
> >: I am writing an article and I am trying to put together a list of the
> >: windiest golf courses in America. I am starting with Sankaty Head on
> >: Nantucket Island off the Massachusetts coast, where the flagsticks are
> >: blows fiercely is Palm Beach (Fla.) Par-3 Golf Course. I am looking for
> >: other courses around the States. Do you have any candidates for the list?
> >
> >New Seabury (Cape Cod)
> >The Links at Key Biscayne (Miami)
> >Pompano Beach Golf Course
> >Eagle Trace
> >
>
> My nomination is the Gabe Lozano course in Corpus Christi Texas. A
> public course with big time wind off of the bay.
>
> Larry Botkin
> bot...@jorsm.com
Richard Shannon
Denis Barsalo wrote:
>
> > Chuck West wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am writing an article and I am trying to put together a list of the
> > > > windiest golf courses in America. I am starting with Sankaty Head on
> > > > Nantucket Island off the Massachusetts coast, where the flagsticks are
> > > > about 3/4 of an inch thick.
>
> an island that is 17 miles long by half a mile wide, stuck in the middle of
> nowhere.... now I call that windy!
Pebble is quite windy too, and I heard I caught it on a calm day. Thank
god for caddies...
Richard
Tim Buck
El Revino, Jurupa & Indian Hills, but ESPECIALLY Green River in Southern
California when the Santa Ana winds are blowing.
TB