you’ve got pretty good handwriting sir
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I wanted to but Bonaire was calling…
Totally with you! Always about the company more than the course.
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One of my company’s three offices is 10 minutes down the street in Abingdon. I drove by The Olde Farm all the time.
Jimmy McGlothlin built The Old Farm. His house is just to the northwest of the course as seen on Google Maps. He’s an eccentric billionaire with ties to West Virginia/Kentucky coal. Jimmy’s what Jim Justice wishes he could be.
My engineering firm has done lots and lots of work in and around The Virginian and for McGlothlin. He’s a nice guy but likes his privacy and seclusion. I believe that’s more the reason why he build The Olde Farm but could be wrong.
It’s in my bucket list for sure!
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A few more tidbits on The Olde Farm.
The Olde Farm is a major reason Michael Jordan chose Bobby Weed to design The Grove XXIII.
In 2018, McGlothlin held a charity event to raise money for Mountain Mission Kids. They raised $56.6 million dollars in a single day. In attendance that day was Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Cooper Manning, Phil Fulmer, Frank Beamer, Nick Saban, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Lanny Wadkis, Curtis Strange, Allen Strange, and Dan Marino to name a few. Those photos can be seen on Google Maps.
It’s my understanding, The Olde Farm sees fewer than 2,500 rounds per year. They have a master plan in place to build “cottages” on property for their elite membership to enjoy while visiting. I’ve seen the plans.
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A few Jacksonville golf notes on the podcast that kicked off this thread:
- Tee times at Jax Beach aren’t close to $30 anymore. If you can even get a time it’s $60+. Please investigate, @KVV!
- Hyde Park still stinks.
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Is there a similar “People who have played Kahuku in a very serious cross-Roost competition” list?
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from a SoCal native with family ties in the Monterey peninsula—aspirational stuff. Don’t think I could muster this one
Immensely enjoyable podcast, really got the juices flowing.
Close to Home:
- Sanford Muni
- Hope Valley
- Duke
- Alamance CC
- Carolina CC
Day Trip:
- Old Town
- Starmount Forest
- Greensboro CC
- Old Barnwell
- Biltmore Forest
Golden Age
- Yeamans Hall
- Philly Cricket
Wild Cards
- Bulls Bay, MP CC Shore (finish the Stranz courses)
- Bandon Dunes
List
- Cypress Point
- Eastward Ho!
- Pine Valley
- Shoreacres
- The Lido
About Eastward Ho, my dad lives 10 minutes away and I’ve had a close look. Judging by what I’ve seen, my goodness
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Never played Eastward Ho myself, but a colleague and my men’s league partner regularly play it. I am told it is all a mid-capper can handle particularly if the wind picks up, but they love going down there.
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Was a brilliant podcast which certainly got me thinking about my plans for the year and gave me the kickstart to.join a Roost despite having a very young one at home.
I’m hoping to get to Wallasey, Royal Birkdale, Hillside in the North West England with plans to play Broadstone and Isle of Purbeck down in South of England on a trip in the Summer.
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Got lucky and played Eastward Ho! A few years back. Crazy weather day on the Cape, three tornados touched down earlier in the day and the course got hit pretty hard. The pins on the practice area/chipping green got yanked out of the ground in the wind and multiple trees on course were snapped in half. Was very surprised that they let an unaccompanied threesome out after what happened earlier.
Front nine was windy, but by the back it all died down and we got the mega light. Was damn near a religious experience. I thought it was awesome then, and would be very curious to get back post renovation. I honestly didn’t think it needed to be touched.
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Pleased to see Royal Hague & Morfontaine mentioned on the pod. I did the Mainland Europe golf trip to Paris & Amsterdam last year and I cannot recommend it enough. Amazing golf, great food, lots of non-golf things to do, perfect for bringing your SO, easy travel from the East Coast of the US, not outlandishly expensive, courses mostly accessible without Mayflower-lineage connections.
Short write up I did last year: Where did you play this week? (Part 2) - #1618 by ayc25
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Members at private clubs that listened to the pod and sent invites to the NLU guys, please note I would also love to come play your courses and am open to invites. Thanks in advance.
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I would like to second this. I will be visiting Pittsburgh March 20th-22nd and don’t see a scenario where I don’t get on Oakmont.
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Anyone got Merch Czar’s cell? Finally had a window to listen to the pod and hopped in the car, need help with a tee time.
Update: Played in Terre Haute
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can someone do the lord’s work and organize all of the courses they mention in a written word format?
i can try and do it on a flight on sunday if no one else does it by then.
Was pleased to hear @Tron give Camden CC a shout out. Not world renowned by any means but it is phenomenal. Very small, interesting green complexes. Visually deceiving and a relatively short golf course from a total yardage standpoint, but it’s a Par 70 and a mix of very short par 4/5’s with a few long par 3/4’s mixed in. Very challenging without losing balls all day.
Would love to see Soly/Tron get a crack at Musgrove Mill. Extremely challenging with wild undulations in the green complexes. Catch it on a firm-ish day where those two were in relative control of their golf ball and I think they’d both love it. Catch it on a day when it’s soft and you’re not in control and you’ll lose about 6 golf balls and have a tough day. Would very much either be a “I have to get back there asap” reaction or a “I hope I never see that place again” reaction.
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These are rookie numbers 
But also, we have to get a round scheduled out there. It’s been too long for it not to have happened.
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Camden is, at the same time, one of the most fun and terrifying golf courses I’ve ever played in a tournament.
For the four ball it’s an incredible match play course with a ton of half-parish holes and matches tend to bounce back and forth.
The handful of stroke play round I’ve played there have been constantly on edge. There’s so many easy was to make a double or triple without hitting a bad shot.
Shoutout Musgrove, love that place, wish it wasn’t in the middle of nowhere lol.
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