What do you really want out of life
It took me 5 years before I seriously reconsidered my answer to Joep’s question.
One day, I looked at the shelves in my study where my golf books are. Between them I found a book that I could not remember reading. The book’s title is “Fifty Places to Play Golf Before You Die”. I skimmed through it.
The author, Chris Santella, has asked 50 people who, in one way or another, could be considered experts in various aspects of golf, to name a golf course that they would recommend other golfers to play – before they died.
Now, that was interesting. What is it that makes one golf course better to play than another? Is it
the nature,
the location, what you can call the wow factor,
the design,
the history of the course,
the maintenance,
the contours of the greens,
the speed of the greens,
the length,
how easy or difficult it is to play to your handicap,
it can attract big tournaments,
it’s designed by one of the known course architects, or because
it gives you some prestige when you can tell your golf friends that you’ve been playing the course where that big tournament was broadcasted on TV, the weekend before?
