goldeena:
I think we have a new chumpion - Merion, terribly put together, lack of cameras on some holes, invisible flagsticks, bugged all over the place and the 5th is just a sick joke -I will never play the front 9 ever again.
Fave has got to be RSG - you bashers, it looks like a PROPER golf course, not some namby pamby gardening exhibition, buggless as far as I can see, breathtaking open air shots for miles around makes you really feel like you're there, and a cold, wet feeling makes you all glad to be back in the club house with a nice hot cup of TEA afterwards, a real sense of the grand battle between man and countryside too - it's an occasion not a round.
Love: RSG, Congressional, Oakmont
Hate: Merion, Olympic
I have different favorites, but those are my two "oh God" courses.
Merion is rather self-explanatory. Olympic annoys the absolute crap out of me because of how trees just screw my drives up. Sometimes I just line up my drives and swing away - I don't have the foresight to make sure there aren't a bunch of trees 3 feet to the left or right of the tee.
If you want to make trees alter people's shots, do it on iron approaches. Don't make me have to hear "thwap thwap thwap" on my drives from my ball hitting trees because I didn't hit it laser-straight.