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I mentioned in another post a while back that I was starting to compile a list of my top 100 courses. I have painfully opened every single course available (as of about 2 months ago), and narrowed my list down to roughly 395 courses. Now comes the hard part, actually playing several rounds on each and coming up with a consistent rating system. I'm hoping to have my list completed by the first of the year. As I said in the other post, my intention here is to give a solid list of courses to show the best of the best. Designers(including myself) can draw inspiration from these and players will find a great variety of challenging and realistic courses to play.

A Brandt wrote: Now comes the hard part, actually playing several rounds on each and coming up with a consistent rating system.

Man, you got that right. Judging courses is very subjective business. I would say it is virutally impossible to come up with a list of 100 that everyone would agree on. I have been at this for 10 years now and still get arguements on my choices for the A-List.

Best of luck in your endeavor... lol

Dar

Thanks Dar, I do agree that rating courses is very subjective. I suppose the real reason I'm taking this on is so I myself have a list of go-to courses whenever I need some inspiration or just want to play a round or two on a top-notch course. I realize some people won't agree on my list, but maybe that'll get some good conversation going

Well, yeah, it's hard, just look at how many "top ten" shows there are for music.

I would say judge by compeletly objective aspects. Think of strategy, blends, smoothness of elevations, planting, etc, etc, etc. Tells us what YOU think about how well the course was constructed.