Sick. Wish they had got to Brunswick GC. Really enjoyed my experience there this year (outside the cold shank I hit on 11, which was my second hole of the qualifier that @Walpy and I both had, well, meh showings at ). Definitely a good add on to this list as its one of the more southernmost courses. Super fun layout
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Love walking Brunswick. And that little fire-tower ledge you can climb-up to take a look down the fairway late on the back-9. Neat that Wawenock has put together a page about Wayne Stiles.
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Oh man, I would love to join. I will also be in Maine tomorrow for our annual (now 17 years) college buddies golf tourney. But we tee off at 10:00 at Spring Meadows so no way I could make that time work. Have a blast!
PS one year a few fellow Refugees and I were invited to play a super early round at the other Kennebunk golf course - Webhannet - and then I flew up 95 to play in my college buddies tourney later on in the day - a truly epic day of golf
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Does anyone know if the public can get on Megunticook (with a phone call maybe)? A friend at Penobby speaks highly of it.
Also, did FE mention the Island Country Club on Deer Isle? Didn’t see it on the map @mdm2021 made. Love Castine, but would probably pick ICC if I had to choose my favorite 9-holer in the area.
My parents are members at Blue Hill CC, if anyone is ever on the peninsula and looking for a game. The course itself is so-so, but the routing is cool and the views across the inner harbor are great.
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Damn! Have fun, never played Spring Meadows. I’m a mass - escapee and really got the golf bug pretty bad 3 years ago, so I’m just now beginning to develop the palate for the finer golf courses. 2025 will be a big year of exploration within ME, VT and NH
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I honestly think Webhannet is nearly as good of a golf course – on the whole – as Arundel. Hard to compete with those Walter Travis greens, but Webhannet a very enjoyable walk with a lot of very good holes. As a course to play everyday, I think I’d probably chose Webhannet, as it asks the modern player to hit a larger variety of clubs. Arundel rarely asks you to hit something besides wedge into a green. The classic old clubhouse and upstairs porch at Webhannet are also great.
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I love Web - but I have a very hard time comparing it and CA. I would play Web daily over CA I think
Anyone done York? Going there in a couple weekends
Playing CA multiple times a week in college was sick. Learned pretty quickly you had to put tee balls and/or approaches in certain spots or you would be lucky to two putt (and left is dead).
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I’ve heard long is dead too. So middle right is the play when in doubt?
Pretty much, but I prefer being on left side of the fairway on 2, 4, 10, 12, and 15. Some pins will really make you think, like a back pin on 5, tucked right pin on 10, or front pin on 17.
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I played there for the first time recently. The greens were excellent. I could have done with a few less blind shots and a few less severely elevated greens but overall I thought it was fun
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furiously takes notes
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You have a very hard time comparing two golf courses in the same Maine town? That sounds tough.
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Spring Meadows is a decent course, but it has the worst collection of Par 5’s I can imagine. #3 is like 4-iron, 6-iron, 7-iron puddle jumping, semi- to completely blind on each shot. I have no idea what you are even supposed to do on #10- driver is blind and have to cut a corner over out of internal out of bounds, or run long and into the woods, so I usually hit 6-iron, wedge, wedge. #15 is probably the best of the bunch, but it’s still less than driver and then either a 7-iron layup or a hero fairway wood.
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…. What?
They’re just very different - tf do you mean that sounds tough?
Haha, relax my friend.
We’re not doing cross-textual analysis of Huck Finn and Crime and Punishment here. Just funny to say you have a “very hard time” comparing two golf courses in coastal Southern Maine, two places made out of grass where you walk around trying to whack a white ball from one mowed area into a hole on another mowed area, while avoiding the sand, rough and disadvantageous angles – as if the hypothetical proposition offered by my post was laughably absurd.
Listen, I read golf architecture books and love discussing the strategic bonafides of a golf course as much as the next Refugee, but sometimes I fear we may have a tendency to over-intellectualize things here in golf sicko land. Admittedly, I am not immune from this tendency.
That being said, in all sincerity, I’m open (and intrigued) to hear about the ways that they are drastically different. I often feel golf course architecture illiterate (for lack of a better term) despite my reading and interest in the subject.
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I see your Spring Meadows and raise you Cape Neddick (my home course). All 3 unreachable in 2, 3 is a 602 into the wind with red stakes on either side. 12 has almost no flat spots for your drive or second, and 15 is the only one bombers can think about going for, but requires a high draw 240ish yard shot if you have a 300-310 drive in the bag, but theres trouble on both sides once you get to that range.
A Par 70 course that measures 6250 and you can’t score on the Par 5s. Fun times.
Hear you, though our crew loves Spring Meadows - the lowest handicap is a 7 and the highest is probably a 40 and for like 1/3 of them its the only time a year they play. We do a scramble and #3 is always interesting/fun though the other 5s are not great, but I do love the par 3s. I think more courses should have at least 1-2 really short par 3s.