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All-Star Favorites : Places to Play reveals your choices for the best public golf
Golf Digest, May, 2002 by Mike Stachura, Sue Sawyer
THE MOTTO FOR GOLF DIGEST'S biennial edition of Places to Play ought to be The Thrill of the Search. This handy guide is the source of hope and anticipation for so many golf trips, and its authority is substantial. Just look at the numbers: More than 6,000 golf courses have been profiled, some 20,000 Golf Digest readers contributed course evaluations, and over the years more than half a million individual votes have been counted.
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Places to Play, which has been around since 1963, is the Rosetta stone for the public golfer. In golf course terms, this is the way, the truth and the life. Places to Play remains at its core the wisdom and the will of the people. What constitutes the difference between a rating of ..... ("golf at its absolute best"), .... ("outstanding"), ... ("very good"), .. ("good, but not great") and . ("basic golf") lies squarely within the hearts and minds of your fellow readers. It's a no-nonsense lot, especially given comments like, "Hit it straight or take a chain saw."
What follows are some of the leaders in the most recent Places to Play, a snapshot of the landscape of the game in our corner of the world. And is there any better place to start than at the top, the 12 courses that have received your supreme rating of five stars?
Fittingly, it is a collection that shows us the game can be at its best in places as diverse as Maine and the Dominican Republic, as unconnected as the tropical splendor of Hawaii's Lanai and the hearty north country of Minnesota, and as removed from golf's beaten path as a golf course named for a racehorse in a quaint Maryland harbor town. Let your search begin.
(Note: The order of the courses listed in the rankings on the following pages is based on the course's raw score.)
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