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01-19-2024 11:12 AM #1
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01-19-2024 11:13 AM #2
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Interesting view?
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01-19-2024 01:29 PM #3
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I have played all but 3, and tend to agree with the negative reviews.
(The 3 I haven't played... I can't afford, or have friends at Camelot, Hunt Club or Royal Ottawa)
Two courses that have improved quality (but I question cost increases), Pineview and Edgewood.
Pricing is the biggest barrier to increasing the numbers of new golfers... unless there is a pandemic!
And when the operators start seeing the same decreases as before 2020 I wonder if they will see the light (not holding my breath).
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01-19-2024 04:06 PM #4
Wow ... Champlain in the top 25. Lost my respect based on that ranking. Whoever made this list drove 1 1/4 hours to Montebello, but Renfrew, Perth, Oaks of Cobden, Prescott, Mississippi are WAAAAAYYY better courses than Champlain and within the 75 minute drive limit. I'm sure there are others I haven't played.
You always hit a good shot on 18 to keep you coming back.
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01-19-2024 07:14 PM #5
Hilarious. Montebello while a solid track, has been a disaster from a conditioning perspective for a long time. No way you can rate it as #1 and besides it’s not even remotely close to Ottawa. And he can’t even take 2 minutes to look up the two nines along Hawthorne at the meadows which are south and west, not south and north. Embarrassing. No mention of any courses in the valley.
I got a fever. And the only prescription is more golf equipment.
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01-19-2024 08:15 PM #6
I don't know if there are more than two main guys associated with that blog, but they clearly have a thing for Montebello. I get it, the bones are there, but it has been completely neglected and it's tough to rate something in the present on it's potential (with nothing planned), or on it's history.
Aside from that, I think the point is that beyond the top few courses, everything else around here is meh. In that vein, does it really matter which 9s elevate Meadows to 20th spot on a mediocre list?
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01-19-2024 08:31 PM #7
Perhaps. But if you can’t take 2 minutes to figure out which two 9’s those are then it just comes off as bush league and hard to take seriously. He hacks apart eagle creek (and rates it below Hylands) partly due to conditions but I’m not sure I’ve played a worse course condition wise than Montebello in the past 5 years.
I got a fever. And the only prescription is more golf equipment.
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01-25-2024 08:46 AM #8
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Agree with all you guys, this ranking system is not good.
Lefty Lucas
I am abidextrous, I once golfed right-handed and now I shoot left-handed just as badly!
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01-25-2024 09:39 AM #9
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While I tend to agree with the negative reviews.
The rankings are questionable and leaves out many local courses... say within 30, 45mins of the city center.
But it is nice to see some criticism... that is rare in the golf industry
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03-05-2024 07:31 PM #10
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Nation in the same category with Champlain and Tecumseh..... hmmmm
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03-07-2024 07:04 PM #11
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03-11-2024 01:21 PM #12
The Hunt is the best course around. Montebello was in almost unplayable shape when we played it 2 years ago and I heard last year it was even worse. It’s foreign owned and up for sale, so I doubt there will be any improvement this season.
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04-24-2024 08:44 AM #13
Whitetail and Dragonfly in my opinion are tops
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04-25-2024 07:26 PM #14
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04-26-2024 09:25 PM #15
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That list has to be a joke. Hunt isn’t in the same category as Montebello. It isn’t even close. There are arguments to be made with some other names when you consider the course relative to price but if you are setting cost to play aside the top 5 are Hunt, Royal, Camelot, Rideau View and Rivermead. Falls off after that (sorry EC, I don’t know what happened there).
And golf is still packed. Lots of people “working” from home and still plenty of discretionary money floating around. I bet we see a different story in 2-3 years but for now there are still lengthy waiting lists despite dues and initiation fees going UP!
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