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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture => Topic started by: Steve_Roths on November 12, 2006, 12:48:16 AM

Title: Golf's Highest Honor
Post by: Steve_Roths on November 12, 2006, 12:48:16 AM

I was sitting around with a couple of friends this weekend and the subject came up about golf.  They knew I was fairly well traveled and asked what I hadn't done or seen in golf.  I said my dream would be the following:

1. Open Champion
2. Payne Stewart Award
3. Captain of the Royal and Ancient

Now I am not goint to accomplish any of these but in a dream World that is the three I hold the highest.  

Title: Re:Golf's Highest Honor
Post by: Chris Cupit on November 12, 2006, 12:55:04 AM

The Bob Jones Award given by the USGA is their highest honor.  With all due repect I would place it in the list above the Payne Stewart Award.  Expand the list to four!

Title: Re:Golf's Highest Honor
Post by: Andrew Summerell on November 12, 2006, 12:59:30 AM

Do you classify it & say Open Champion at St Andrew’s, or is Open Champion good enough.

Title: Re:Golf's Highest Honor
Post by: Chris Kane on November 12, 2006, 02:13:11 AM

Captain of the R&A is a great honour, but I don't think its really a golf honour - most of the recent Captains have been prominent in other fields.

Title: Re:Golf's Highest Honor
Post by: SPDB on November 12, 2006, 02:39:03 AM

Freedom of the Burgh, St. Andrews.

Title: Re:Golf's Highest Honor
Post by: Phil_the_Author on November 12, 2006, 04:51:10 AM

Being recognized as THE ONE to beat. The list of those honored is incredibly short:

Jones, Nicklaus and Woods.

Hagen, Nelson, Hogan, Palmer, Trevino and Watson fall just short.

All others dream and wish.

Title: Re:Golf's Highest Honor
Post by: Tim Gavrich on November 12, 2006, 12:42:18 PM

I'd think that for golf course architects, having a major golf tournament held on a course they had designed would be pretty cool.  I'd imagine that for Pete Dye, seeing one of golf's most exciting days in history unfold on one of his most cherished courses (1991 Ryder Cup) must have been awesome.

Title: Re:Golf's Highest Honor
Post by: Tony_Muldoon on November 12, 2006, 05:14:21 PM

And I thought this thread was going to be a list of those who have "chrushed" Ran. ;D

Title: Re:Golf's Highest Honor
Post by: Tommy Williamsen on November 12, 2006, 06:39:53 PM

It has to be the dream of anyone who has ever picked up a club to be Open Champion.  I am almosts 60 and when i play alone I still "play" for the champioship.

Title: Re:Golf's Highest Honor
Post by: Geoffrey Childs on November 12, 2006, 08:01:18 PM

Tony - I like that one VERY much but the list is way too long for the honor to mean much.  ;D

Therefore, being golf's most beloved figure must be golf's highest honor.  It entails only one individual (even he he has been crushed by 1/2 of the golfing community).

Title: Re:Golf's Highest Honor
Post by: Kevin Pallier on November 12, 2006, 09:16:33 PM

Steve

As a golfer - I'd suggest Grand Slam Champion would be a nice title to have

Title: Re:Golf's Highest Honor
Post by: mike_beene on November 12, 2006, 10:06:15 PM

Playing the Old Course.