why couldnt it be a different story in NC as well than what was covered in TS?
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I was going to comment about the NC course ranking list being awful, but you guise covered it for me. 
I think you could put TR in any state and it would be Top 100.
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Iāve always heard mixed reviews, some folks like the layout and seems like a decent value. Canāt be much worse than some of the other public courses around here
Listen, fer shur. Like the rest of the Carolina brethren, I agree and would like nothing more than to have them come thru. I just think we may have a little bit more of a challenge than places like Cincinnati where they havenāt showcased yet. But what do I know? Just speculating. If its really a contest that is based purely on fundraising, the production history, and therefore my concerns, are moo points.
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Alright, Iām weighing in to give the ultimate NC metros strapped itinerary. We are doing Triangle, Triad and Charlotte because itād be a waste not to.
Triangle:
RGA - no brainer here
Knights Play - a quality pitch nā putt
Brevofield (only because it would be fān hilarious to see Mike Breevort show Neil his shed full of remote control toy boats on a YouTube show. Dude is a fān nut)
Sorry Durham, youāre not as interesting as you think you are
Traid:
Reynolds Park
Gillespie
Tanglewood - Championship
all for same reasons shared above. Plenty of great stories to be had. All the other municipal courses in the triad are too damn good for strapped.
Charlotte:
Sifford
Mooresville
Canāt go wrong with such high quality munis.
As a Charlotte resident who plays most of his golf in the Triangle and Triad, I very much would like to see the lionās share of a season away from the queen city. The public golf here doesnāt hold a candle to to everywhere else in the state.
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Yeah I was going off that they said if your city isnāt listed find the closest one, figured Winston is close enough to GSO theyād travel a bit down the road.
Definitely agree with Gillespie, I feel like theyād have to expand to triad area to do a full Strapped series here properly.
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absolutely agreeā¦would be a better offering with the expanded area
i wonder how they settled on WS and not GSO to begin with? im guessing its a result of Reynolds Park having got some burn on other podcasts, etc
2 perry maxwell designs on one strapped trip would be pretty hard to duplicate elsewhere
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Yea not a fan here, at the end of the day if Iāve got buddies wanting to play, you name the course, Iāll go play bout anywhere.
If Iām booking the tee time, WWG aināt on my list.
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So what places are on your list?
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I think GSO/WS is the same area, and I think theyād be open to a GSO course. Itās not like there are rules other than the ones imposed on Randy and Neil.
for someone not from NC to pick WS was just surprising, thats all
GSO is the 3rd largest city in NC as you are probably more than awareā¦if you were just going to list 3 from NC, the most logical thing for someone not from NC would be to list CLT, raleigh and GSO
so again, i wonder how they settled on listing WS on there and not GSO
i realize they are the same area and you could play a GSO easily while in WS, blah blah blah
why did they choose to list WS? thats all
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Could be that maybe there was a Arnold Palmer/WFU angle? But I canāt tell if Palmer was at WFU in W-S or in Wake Forest. Looks like the school moved completely by 1956 and Palmer went pro in 1954, but the school of Medicine (the first part of the school to move to W-S) started moving in 1941. Anyone know where he was when he was at WFU?
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looks like he was at the old campus, which i guess meant WF not WSā¦he also left WF and joined the coast guard for a couple of years prior to coming back to WF and then turning pro in 1954ā¦pretty wild
When he arrived on the Old Campus in the fall of 1948, Palmer simultaneously launched a collegiate golf dynasty and one of the greatest careers the game has ever known. He became Wake Forestās first individual NCAA champion in 1949, then was the NCAA individual medalist again in 1950. He was the first ACC champion in 1953 and won the U.S. Amateur Championship a year later before turning professional.
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guess ncaa didnt have the rules about a 5 year window back then
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They could play a āTriad-Threesomeā, one from each city. Tanglewood, Oak Hollow and Gillespie or Bryan Park.
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This would be my vote. I think Oak Hollow is prime strapped material.
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He was in actual Wake Forest according to the folks in that town. The course up there that they played was a little nine holer near downtown WF called Paschal Golf Club. It is still open to this day
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that would be coolā¦
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Well I hope my list meets your approval, but since you ask.
If only limited to playing in Raleigh or nearby; The Neuse, River Ridge, Lonnie Poole if I feel donāt mind fighting the crowd or can get it at a decent rate. I keep meaning to play Pine Hollow, but see below, been going to the sandhills instead. I like to walk so Iāll play 9 at Lochmereā¦ if it hasnāt rained in a while or RGA, because theyāre cheap and not miserable to walk (not otherwise great courses).
More often than not though Iāve been just driving to the sandhills to play, its worth the hour drive. Especially when you consider that The Neuse or River Ridge are 30 min, just drive a bit further for much better golf.