The Golf Club 2019 – Top 100 Course – Best Recreations…

[Virtualadam]

Although TGC has a lot of great course recreations to choose from, the challenge is that popular courses have dozens of versions published, with no effective way to determine which ones are the best. For example, August National already has over 30 published versions! Although TGC has a course rating which could help, most of the course don’t yet have any ratings given.

The goal here is to share findings on top recreations based on quality and realism. Although this can be subjective, at least it would narrow it down to an initial few to choose from…

The list below is from the top 100 course of 2018 as rated by https://www.top100golfcourses.com/ This is probably best managed as a shared google spreadsheet, but I’ll leave the to someone else if they want to migrate it J

So if you have tried out most versions for a particular course and found what you think it the best, please post below! So the next person can search less and play more!

Hopefully in the future HB studio will incorporate better ways to quickly preview, search and review the courses…

Golf Course	TGC 2019 Name (Best quality and realism)
1 Cypress Point	Course Name (Designer Name)
2 Shinnecock Hills	Course Name (Designer Name)
3 Pine Valley	Course Name (Designer Name)
4 Royal County Down (Championship)	Course Name (Designer Name)
5 St Andrews (Old)	Course Name (Designer Name)
6 Royal Melbourne (West)	Course Name (Designer Name)
7 National Golf Links of America	Course Name (Designer Name)
8 Royal Dornoch (Championship)	Course Name (Designer Name)
9 Oakmont	Course Name (Designer Name)
10 Muirfield	Course Name (Designer Name)
11 Sand Hills	Course Name (Designer Name)
12 Merion (East)	Course Name (Designer Name)
13 Augusta National	Course Name (Designer Name)
13 Augusta National - Par 3	Course Name (Designer Name)
14 Trump Turnberry (Ailsa)	Course Name (Designer Name)
15 Royal Portrush (Dunluce)	Course Name (Designer Name)
16 Kingston Heath	Course Name (Designer Name)
17 Pebble Beach	Course Name (Designer Name)
18 Bandon Dunes (Pacific Dunes)	Course Name (Designer Name)
19 Crystal Downs	Course Name (Designer Name)
20 Ballybunion (Old)	Course Name (Designer Name)
21 Fishers Island	Course Name (Designer Name)
22 Friar's Head	Course Name (Designer Name)
23 Royal St George's	Course Name (Designer Name)
24 Chicago	Course Name (Designer Name)
25 Pinehurst (No.2)	Course Name (Designer Name)
26 Carnoustie (Championship)	Course Name (Designer Name)
27 Prairie Dunes	Course Name (Designer Name)
28 Sunningdale (Old)	Course Name (Designer Name)
29 Seminole	Course Name (Designer Name)
30 Lahinch (Old)	Course Name (Designer Name)
31 Los Angeles (North)	Course Name (Designer Name)
32 Winged Foot (West)	Course Name (Designer Name)
33 Barnbougle Dunes	Course Name (Designer Name)
34 San Francisco	Course Name (Designer Name)
35 Hirono	Course Name (Designer Name)
36 Tara Iti	Course Name (Designer Name)
37 Riviera	Course Name (Designer Name)
38 Royal Birkdale	Course Name (Designer Name)
39 New South Wales	Course Name (Designer Name)
40 Morfontaine	Course Name (Designer Name)
41 Country Club (Clyde & Squirrel)	Course Name (Designer Name)
42 Kingsbarns	Course Name (Designer Name)
43 Sunningdale (New)	Course Name (Designer Name)
44 Cape Kidnappers	Course Name (Designer Name)
45 North Berwick (West)	Course Name (Designer Name)
46 Cabot Cliffs	Course Name (Designer Name)
47 Portmarnock (Old)	Course Name (Designer Name)
48 Kawana (Fuji)	Course Name (Designer Name)
49 Camargo	Course Name (Designer Name)
50 Castle Stuart	Course Name (Designer Name)
51 Bethpage (Black)	Course Name (Designer Name)
52 Cape Wickham	Course Name (Designer Name)
53 Oakland Hills (South)	Course Name (Designer Name)
54 Royal Lytham & St Annes	Course Name (Designer Name)
55 Ballyneal	Course Name (Designer Name)
56 Kiawah Island (Ocean)	Course Name (Designer Name)
57 Royal Aberdeen (Balgownie)	Course Name (Designer Name)
58 St George's	Course Name (Designer Name)
59 Diamante Dunes	Course Name (Designer Name)
60 Trump International Scotland	Course Name (Designer Name)
61 Cabot Links	Course Name (Designer Name)
62 Swinley Forest	Course Name (Designer Name)
63 Whistling Straits (Straits)	Course Name (Designer Name)
64 Royal Porthcawl	Course Name (Designer Name)
65 Muirfield Village	Course Name (Designer Name)
66 Barnbougle Lost Farm	Course Name (Designer Name)
67 Garden City	Course Name (Designer Name)
68 St George's Hill (Red & Blue)	Course Name (Designer Name)
69 Somerset Hills	Course Name (Designer Name)
70 Bandon Dunes (Bandon Dunes)	Course Name (Designer Name)
71 Cruden Bay (Championship)	Course Name (Designer Name)
72 TPC at Sawgrass (Stadium)	Course Name (Designer Name)
73 Old Sandwich	Course Name (Designer Name)
74 California	Course Name (Designer Name)
75 Victoria	Course Name (Designer Name)
76 Old Town Club	Course Name (Designer Name)
77 Ganton	Course Name (Designer Name)
78 Woodhall Spa (Hotchkin)	Course Name (Designer Name)
79 Olympic Club (Lake)	Course Name (Designer Name)
80 Maidstone	Course Name (Designer Name)
81 Ellerston	Course Name (Designer Name)
82 Casa de Campo (Teeth of the Dog)	Course Name (Designer Name)
83 Quaker Ridge	Course Name (Designer Name)
84 Shoreacres	Course Name (Designer Name)
85 Walton Heath (Old)	Course Name (Designer Name)
86 Bandon Dunes (Old Macdonald)	Course Name (Designer Name)
87 St Enodoc (Church)	Course Name (Designer Name)
88 Golf Club	Course Name (Designer Name)
89 Koninklijke Haagsche	Course Name (Designer Name)
90 South Cape Owners Club	Course Name (Designer Name)
91 Shanqin Bay	Course Name (Designer Name)
92 Yokohama (West)	Course Name (Designer Name)
93 European Club	Course Name (Designer Name)
94 Southern Hills	Course Name (Designer Name)
95 Winged Foot (East)	Course Name (Designer Name)
96 Naruo	Course Name (Designer Name)
97 Paraparaumu Beach	Course Name (Designer Name)
98 West Sussex	Course Name (Designer Name)
99 Royal Adelaide	Course Name (Designer Name)
100 Utrecht de Pan	Course Name (Designer Name)

[Yeltzman]

Only worked on it for 2-3 years over a couple of games in TGC brand,Done with official Strokesaver Guide for accuracy and the fairways are wide open for you sim guys,only problem maybe it is a little dark in main game to try to get effect of pot bunkers in places because you can't do them in designer.Love the course shame its gone from Open rota.(PS the 6th should play as a Par 5 for you sim guys).Can't make waypoints different in game for pars

Number 54 (Railway OOB)

[Solstice72]

Thanks much for this! And your consideration for the sim!

[Yeltzman]

No worries i have done 7 of the Open courses (8 soon with Portrush) but not all got Tees around 6300 yards....but go on here's another

Number 23 (no idea how the 4th green would play Sim wise Nightmare).

[mthunt]

Yelts, is Royal Lytham the one removed because they won’t allow women?

[Yeltzman]

It's the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers (AKA number 10 on list Muirfield) who only allowed ladies late last year,Royal lytham been taken of Open rota due to logistics reasons,size of plot etc they perfer Royal liverpool (hoylake) now instead of lytham for the men's event just due to how many people can go.Will still host R and A events like this years men's senior open,but it seems the proper open will not be going back for a while.

Also applies to Turnberry as well,More due to the owner of the course plus also location but since the changes were made to the course Turnberry one of the best courses in the UK.

[wbond]

I see you mention you've done 7 of these courses, can you give me the names of the ones that you have done? I would like to add them to my tracking list i've published for people. Also, if you can let me know if they were done with lidar or if they are a RCR.

No worries i have done 7 of the Open courses (8 soon with Portrush) but not all got Tees around 6300 yards....but go on here's another

Number 23 (no idea how the 4th green would play Sim wise Nightmare).

[Yeltzman]

Sorry its 6 in total at the moment,with Portrush being the 7th in a few weeks.....added another what will play well in sim nice wide fairways loch lomond and 63000 yards as well.No LIDAR on console but each one took around 6 months to do over the history of the game and also done with the official Strokesaver guide from the open...you can play along with royal troon here.

http://www.strokesaver.co.uk/royal_troon_open_2016

[Meadows39]

Just joined TGC2019..........is there a place to find an updated top courses list or is the above still a good list? And what specifically is the name of the best Augusta National course? I've heard about Firethorn but looks like there are several of those as well.

Thanks for any advice.

Mike

[mthunt]

Firethorn Members is Member Tee and National is protee

[JayJo13]

Just joined TGC2019..........is there a place to find an updated top courses list or is the above still a good list? And what specifically is the name of the best Augusta National course? I've heard about Firethorn but looks like there are several of those as well.

Thanks for any advice.

Mike

Firethorn members tees is probably the one you want. I'd suggest when searching for a course to play use the "Highly Rated" option inside of TGC. Always look at the number of plays and/or the rating, that's a fool-proof way of knowing your playing the right version. If you page through the highly rated section there are hundreds of great courses.

This is helpful and I believe somewhat up to date - https://tgccourses.com/
Here is another - https://tgcsim.com/courses/tgc2019.php

[StanMI]

Here for possible updates

[Jgain]

This list is not currently updated, but is a good resource

https://www.tgctours.com/Course/TGC2019Listings?Grid-sort=Likes-desc&Grid-page=1&Grid-pageSize=50&Grid-group=&Grid-filter=DateCreated~gt~datetime%272015-09-10T00-00-00%27~and~Status~neq~%27Not%20Approved%27