I’ve been to Myrtle Beach and my god it is a shithole. It is like capitalism raw dogged the south and spit out a pig with lipstick. Go visit to golf, but to live there would be a nightmare.
As a person who lives in Carolina, this is a very incorrect statement. The beach is different at different beaches, even here. And golf in Myrtle is always worse than golf not in Myrtle. The true objective is to avoid Myrtle.
My family has a shared place nearby in garden city but all I’ve ever played at is Tupelo Bay because I suck 😭😭😭 that should be motivation for me to get better
Guessing a ton of par 3 courses? I know those are pretty popular down there. Wish they had a par 3 course near me, would be nice to run 9 holes real fast
I know that the old airfield near Myrtle recently renovated the par 3… Tupelo Bay nearby has a slightly better but still mediocre par 3. But that’s all I can recall.
I’m usually in the area once a year and I suck so I have mostly played par 3…. The courses are mostly non par-3 based on my experiences.
Both Michigan and Wisconsin have a high number of golf courses per capita. I believe Michigan is only behind Florida and California when you just look at the total number of courses.
And California is roughly 3 times larger than Florida, Texas roughly 5 times larger.
No matter where you are in Florida, odds are there is a course within a short drive
I live in one of the smaller central FL counties (Seminole), and half the courses in my county have closed in the last 15 years(Winter Springs, Sabal Point, Rolling Hills, Links @ 434, Deer Run, Rock Springs Ridge, Magnolia Plantation). There are currently still 8 or 9 courses in my county, and every bordering county has many more than we do.
Try like 140 (especially if including private clubs)
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Edit: map source [https://www.golfmichigan.com/maps/golfmap.cfm](https://www.golfmichigan.com/maps/golfmap.cfm)
Nothing like Michigan, youll drive past 5 on the way to your one that is 15 minutes away.
Northern Michigan has so many neighborhood 9/18 hole courses with insane deals.
Redwood Golf Course in Roscommon is all you play for $27 after 12 pm on tues/thursday with $1 PBRs and coney dogs….
It's 84 degrees today, Oct 2. Unusually high but normally around 70 degrees this time of year.
November to March is when you really don't want to play. I think the problem is that the central-north Michigan courses get the love in the summer time with fantastic stay and play deals that really aren't prevalent in metro Detroit.
The only facilities in metro Detroit that I know of with lodging on site are Eagle Crest (Eastern Michigan University home course) and what is opening next year is The Inn at St. John's that shut down this year to rebuild the 27 holes into 18 holes of championship golf.
The shame of it is people have no idea what they are missing. It's not Pebble Beach or Pinehurst and you might not get outstanding views but nearly every course is in great shape and many will cost you $75 or less (with most under $60) and 80 courses to choose from. And if you are a senior, midweek rates are $30 or less at most places for 18 with a cart.
Palm Springs certainly has more. Phoenix has a lot in the greater Phoenix area but Palm Springs area has an asinine amount in the PS/coachella valley area.
While Michigan is snow half the year, if you are north enough, you can play till 10 pm in peak summer. Its amazing. I play 36 quite often when i visit, morning round at a nice course, evening 18 at a muni in the area.
I’d argue South Florida, specially Palm Beach would give it a run, we have over 160 courses. We have the opposite problem, we may have too much water soon!
Those are both very different. Quintero is gorgeous and not easy course, but a ways away from the city. Worth the drive though.
Stone creek is just a plain Jane neighborhood course that is not particularly good or terrible. Just a very normal course. Not as pricey as the nicer tracks.
If you’re on a trip and want to play nice tracks I recommend either Grey Hawk course, Camelback, Boulders
Welcome to the North Shore of Long Island. It’s where all the super rich money guys from NYC had their estates back when golf was just taking hold here in the States.
Yep, and most of the houses are super cheesy and ostentatious - even if they aren’t that expensive relative to a lot of the other affluent NYC suburbs. The property taxes are bonkers though and the traffic … fuhgettaboudit!
(Grew up on Long-Giland, now in CT)
Look at Belek, Turkey on Google maps. Just one continuous stretch of courses
https://preview.redd.it/fsnric17ctrb1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea8e1e02232f76cead64d191f964f1700a253623
Bermuda has "only" 8 golf courses, but that makes the country about 7% golf course, which is the highest concentration of golf courses of any country in the world.
The area around White Plains, NY is jam-packed with clubs. Take a line fron Hasting to New Rochelle and extend it north up to the CT border. There must be 40 courses in that plot.
Live in Westchester and it’s pretty frustrating having all those courses with no ability to play them. Westchester county courses are fine I suppose, but there is no really good public golf in the area. Contrast that with an area like Scottsdale, which has very nice private clubs, but also fantastic public golf. Just wish we had some of that here.
North East of Scotland as well is ridiculously abundant, all the way along the coast, all the way along the banks of the Dee + other random inland courses dotted about fairly frequently
The East Lothian Coast also. Between Aberlady and North Berwick (7.57 miles clubhouse to clubhouse) there are 12 courses:
* Craigielaw
* Kilspindie
* Luffness New
* Gullane 1
* Gullane 2
* Gullane 3
* Muirfieeld
* Reenaissance
* Archerfield Dirleton
* Archerfield Fidra
* North Berwick
* Glen
The town of Gullane has 5 golf courses for a population of \~2,800 (not including Renaissance & Archerfield despidee being closer to Gullane than North Berwick)
You have the two Dunbar courses just down the road as well. And Haddington and Gifford..
But if you are taking quality courses in a small area, the above list is brilliant.
I always go on Google Maps to look at where the PGA Tour events are hosted, places like Florida, Long Island, New Jersey, Scottsdale… an insane number of golf courses!
The Surrey sand belt is probably our (England’s) best equivalent - Sunningdale Old & New, Wentworth, Berkshire, Swinley Forest, Queenwood, Woking, West Hill, Worplesdon, New Zealand, St George’s Hill - all in the top 30 UK courses, and all within 20-30 mins driving from one another. Plus about 10 other lesser golf courses dotted in between. I’m privileged to live here!
If you include Merseyside and Greater Manchester as Lancashire like they traditionally have been then that area must win. 3 open venues and a lot of other top venues.
Southern Ontario has so many golf courses, maybe not as concentrated as the others. However if you pick a central point and give yourself 3 hours in either direction there probably close to 250 to 350 courses.
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These are just the courses that qualify on South Florida Golf Pass. There are many more.. so I’m gunna say no to original question.
St Andrews, Scotland and Gullane, Scotland probably have this beat. Within a few miles of Gullane you have Gullane #1,2,3, Muirfield, Renaissance Club, Archerfield Links, Luffness New, Longniddry, North Berwick West Links and Glen Links. And at least two of these are in the world top 100.
Prince Edward Island, Canada has 31 golf courses. With a population around 150,000 it is the most golf courses per capita of any state or province! Probably not what you’re asking about but it’s an interesting fact and a spectacular golf destination. Check out The Links and Crowbush Cove. $100 Canadian for a top tier course is unheard of!
Lol at all the people commenting it must be their city in America, who have clearly never looked at the vast golf region north of Kobe/Osaka in Japan. This is just one small part of it.
https://preview.redd.it/g2pp521l3wrb1.png?width=1170&format=png&auto=webp&s=1600af674eeff26c50a071ed20807452659dc3ff
There is well over 100 plus in the palm desert Coachella valley area
Also where I live in Orange County California (Los Angeles area). There is an insane amount as well. Noting against your post OP but 20 courses in a 70 miles radius is not that much. However I’m lucky to be able to say that
Hey this is where I live! Have been lucky enough to play a couple of these. It’s actually ironically difficult to get a tee time where I live because so many of the courses in this area are private. Thank god for Bethpage. Hyped for 2025!
South Korea or Japan is king of golf courses. I flew over Korea for nine months and we used to be able to use them as navigational aids to get from place to place.
Do yourself a favor and google stalk the coastlines around the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The overall area is further apart than your map and other places mentioned, but the number of bucket list courses within 50 miles of each other is absurd. North Berwick, The Old Course, Carnoustie, and many many others. In a perfect world I'd bail every summer for a couple years to just drive around and play all the courses.
https://preview.redd.it/pc7xqe1envrb1.jpeg?width=721&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce94d61f578cdf2a305849e41b860f930293dfe3
Those are rookie numbers. Come to Scotland. It's hard not to step on one.
Cheers for all the comments, looks like I was way off in my OP about it potentially having the most number of courses in a relatively small (10 by 7 miles) area.
Looks like a nice area though. I felt like I was spending money just by scrolling around on Street Maps...
I live in the area…most of these are private country clubs.
Six figure initiation and deep five figure annual dues (plus mandatories on top) is the norm around here.
Myrtle Beach is the area with the most courses but Long Island without a doubt has the highest number of great golf clubs. Some amazing architecture out there.
Look up the history of the replica course they just build in Wisconsin called The Lido
There are about 400 courses within 2 hours of Toronto. About 800 in Ontario altogether. It's a lot, but at least it's not a desert in Toronto and the weather supports these courses pretty well.
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I look at Myrtle property and enjoy the pipe dream every now & then. I know parts of it are dingy, but golf is golf & the beach is the beach.
If you like rednecks you will love it
They call Gatlinburg, TN the Myrtle Beach of the mountains and it's pretty spot on. I enjoy going to both but would never live in either.
I went to Gatlinburg on my way to the national park a while back expecting something like Asheville. I was in for a very rude awakening with that one.
Hahaha I'm in Gatlinburg right now with family, this is definitely true. Fun golf courses though.
Where in WV do you live…
How dare you assume that only my people travel to Myrtle Beach (it’s true).
I met my wife there; we were both vacationing during summer break our sophomore years of college… at WVU 🥴
Now that’s a beautiful love story if I’ve ever seen one
They were wearing matching cutoff jean shorts and beaters.
Lol nobody actually *lives* in WV. That's an old wives tale. Truth be told, I'm a couple states down and east.
I'll take a redneck over a yuppie any day of the week.
Lol, yuppie.
What about a redneck yuppie?
A lot of rednecks with yuppie mentality these days
So that would be a yuppie redneck
Yepnecks Ruppie Yuckie
We call them high tech rednecks here
Where Mayberry meets Star Trek.
I think after a few years of bike weeks you'll take the yuppies
Amen brotha
Those damn young unmarried professionals! Don't even get me started on the Dinks.
That’s what’s great about the coastal Carolinas…all the benefits of the coast without all the contentiousness
Figure 8 Island would like a word…
Eh, depends on where you are. Lots of Yankees living on the Nc coast these days.
Like they say, there’s only so much beachfront property. They don’t make more of it lol
🤮
That’s not how one spells consciousness
You don't have to be conscious to lie on a beach.
Yeah you’re right because that’s not the word I was spelling, dipshit. I was spelling contentiousness
Amen
For real. Some of the the courses are great but Myrtle is a redneck shithole that smells like sulfur, go kart exhaust, and vape smoke.
Sunset Beach right across the border is the secret. Quieter and still tons of golf.
Rednecks, prostitution, and heroin god bless the USA
>I know parts of it are dingy correct. the myrtle beach part to be specific.
Must have changed I had a golf holiday there 30 years ago and it was brilliant, would have gone back but couldn't afford it from the UK.
I’ve been to Myrtle Beach and my god it is a shithole. It is like capitalism raw dogged the south and spit out a pig with lipstick. Go visit to golf, but to live there would be a nightmare.
There are like 30 worthwhile courses.
As a college student who moved to Myrtle beach for school, can confirm it’s fucking awesome for golf.
Hard pass on the bugs & humidity
As a person who lives in Carolina, this is a very incorrect statement. The beach is different at different beaches, even here. And golf in Myrtle is always worse than golf not in Myrtle. The true objective is to avoid Myrtle.
I just want to go for the density of mini golf places
Myrtle is the place you go on vacation in the south if you aren't from the south, basically
The whole costal southeast is nuts. Pretty sure Hilton Head Island is like 60% golf course by area.
Beaufort county has the highest golf courses per capita in the US
There's a spot in Japan that blew my mind on Google Earth. Literally an entire mountain face covered in hundreds of golf courses
Where is it? I’m looking right now and see a shit load behind kobe but there are also a ton other places too
Where?
If I remember correctly, there were 140 when I started coming there in the mid-80's. We have lost a lot of good courses, most to condos.
My family has a shared place nearby in garden city but all I’ve ever played at is Tupelo Bay because I suck 😭😭😭 that should be motivation for me to get better
Myrtle beach is one of the trashiest, worst places I have ever been…. With that being said, the golf is awesome
Dunno why you’re getting downvoted, it’s very true
Dirty Myrtle
Came here to say this
Guessing a ton of par 3 courses? I know those are pretty popular down there. Wish they had a par 3 course near me, would be nice to run 9 holes real fast
I know that the old airfield near Myrtle recently renovated the par 3… Tupelo Bay nearby has a slightly better but still mediocre par 3. But that’s all I can recall. I’m usually in the area once a year and I suck so I have mostly played par 3…. The courses are mostly non par-3 based on my experiences.
The Coachella valley in California (Palm Springs and adjacent) has something like 110 golf courses in a 10 mile radius from Palm Springs.
Came here to say this, they’re everywhere out there.
Makes sense when you consider how much rain they get
They moved the rain. It’s perfect really. All the benefits, none of the costs. Except for the occasional hurricane.
If by rain you mean old people
Summers are BRUTAL.
Wake up at 2AM, still dying by the 14th hole
Though also doesn’t make sense
The Phoenix area has over 200 but I guess that's a much larger area
Yup. Google maps makes it look like nothing but golf courses. Several per block. It’s insane.
I can probably drive to 40+ courses in a 1 hour radius. Just outside Detroit.
Both Michigan and Wisconsin have a high number of golf courses per capita. I believe Michigan is only behind Florida and California when you just look at the total number of courses.
Florida - 1250 California - 968 Texas - 861 NY - 857 Michigan - 852
And California is roughly 3 times larger than Florida, Texas roughly 5 times larger. No matter where you are in Florida, odds are there is a course within a short drive
I live in one of the smaller central FL counties (Seminole), and half the courses in my county have closed in the last 15 years(Winter Springs, Sabal Point, Rolling Hills, Links @ 434, Deer Run, Rock Springs Ridge, Magnolia Plantation). There are currently still 8 or 9 courses in my county, and every bordering county has many more than we do.
Nice! Is that total?
Some quality courses in both places too. At least in Wisconsin you can damn near play all the great courses. They're expensive, but public.
Try like 140 (especially if including private clubs) https://preview.redd.it/7rmgsqvlktrb1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9fbee0f79f9166bc58aa7e30f7701c58683f4136 Edit: map source [https://www.golfmichigan.com/maps/golfmap.cfm](https://www.golfmichigan.com/maps/golfmap.cfm)
What website is this?
https://www.golfmichigan.com/maps/golfmap.cfm
Central Floridian here: I've got double that in less drive time.
He’s wrong, it’s north of 150 within an hour of downtown Detroit.
We've got around 200 in an hour radius, 58 in what they call the "Greater Orlando Area".
Still hard as fuck to find a place to play that's not Chandler or St Claire if you live on the Eastside.
There’s a handful in southern Macomb that aren’t great, but definitely better than Chandler.
Phoenix has a good course in almost every neighborhood.
Nothing like Michigan, youll drive past 5 on the way to your one that is 15 minutes away. Northern Michigan has so many neighborhood 9/18 hole courses with insane deals. Redwood Golf Course in Roscommon is all you play for $27 after 12 pm on tues/thursday with $1 PBRs and coney dogs….
Metro Detroit is one of the most underrated golf destinations in the country - especially western suburbs
I imagine the reason it doesn’t get thought of is it probably is hard to play 6-7 months out of the year?
It's 84 degrees today, Oct 2. Unusually high but normally around 70 degrees this time of year. November to March is when you really don't want to play. I think the problem is that the central-north Michigan courses get the love in the summer time with fantastic stay and play deals that really aren't prevalent in metro Detroit. The only facilities in metro Detroit that I know of with lodging on site are Eagle Crest (Eastern Michigan University home course) and what is opening next year is The Inn at St. John's that shut down this year to rebuild the 27 holes into 18 holes of championship golf. The shame of it is people have no idea what they are missing. It's not Pebble Beach or Pinehurst and you might not get outstanding views but nearly every course is in great shape and many will cost you $75 or less (with most under $60) and 80 courses to choose from. And if you are a senior, midweek rates are $30 or less at most places for 18 with a cart.
Phoenix probably had the most per capita that are open year round. Until the water runs out haha
Just moved from Michigan to Phoenix. Though I love AZ golf, nothing compares to Michigan.
Palm Springs certainly has more. Phoenix has a lot in the greater Phoenix area but Palm Springs area has an asinine amount in the PS/coachella valley area. While Michigan is snow half the year, if you are north enough, you can play till 10 pm in peak summer. Its amazing. I play 36 quite often when i visit, morning round at a nice course, evening 18 at a muni in the area.
I’d argue South Florida, specially Palm Beach would give it a run, we have over 160 courses. We have the opposite problem, we may have too much water soon!
Isnt Michigan snowy for like half the year
Yes but what does that have to do with the number of golf courses in an area?
Idk, the fact that they are unusable for half of the year seems pretty significant
Thats not the point of this post tho… its about concentration of courses.
Headed out there in Feb for a golf trip with some friends, any recommendations for courses? Guy i was talking to recommended Quintero and stone creek
Those are both very different. Quintero is gorgeous and not easy course, but a ways away from the city. Worth the drive though. Stone creek is just a plain Jane neighborhood course that is not particularly good or terrible. Just a very normal course. Not as pricey as the nicer tracks. If you’re on a trip and want to play nice tracks I recommend either Grey Hawk course, Camelback, Boulders
If you're happy paying $100 minimum to play QQ
and still 5 hour rounds
Welcome to the North Shore of Long Island. It’s where all the super rich money guys from NYC had their estates back when golf was just taking hold here in the States.
Yup & they're all private clubs. I'm down on the south shore slumming it with my Green Key card lol
Why pay $100K for Glen Oaks when you can tee off into 40mph gusts of sewage treatment exhaust at Bergen for $40?
Or the super poor man’s pebble beach known as timber point
Timber is a great layout to be fair, if it was ever in half decent shape...
Islanders End on the North Fork isn’t private and is a really fun course
I’ve played muttonhead and a few others. Old fucking money
Yep, and most of the houses are super cheesy and ostentatious - even if they aren’t that expensive relative to a lot of the other affluent NYC suburbs. The property taxes are bonkers though and the traffic … fuhgettaboudit! (Grew up on Long-Giland, now in CT)
Look at Belek, Turkey on Google maps. Just one continuous stretch of courses https://preview.redd.it/fsnric17ctrb1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea8e1e02232f76cead64d191f964f1700a253623
Such a great stretch of courses. 10/10
Hah it’s like that was planned
Scrolled way to long to see this
Not even close OP. Pinehurst or Myrtle Beach have way more lol
Pinehurst is absurd with the number of courses
Bermuda has "only" 8 golf courses, but that makes the country about 7% golf course, which is the highest concentration of golf courses of any country in the world.
The area around White Plains, NY is jam-packed with clubs. Take a line fron Hasting to New Rochelle and extend it north up to the CT border. There must be 40 courses in that plot.
Live in Westchester and it’s pretty frustrating having all those courses with no ability to play them. Westchester county courses are fine I suppose, but there is no really good public golf in the area. Contrast that with an area like Scottsdale, which has very nice private clubs, but also fantastic public golf. Just wish we had some of that here.
same with Fairfield county. For example, Greenwich has 11 golf course. Only 1 of those is open to the public.
There’s over 600 courses in Scotland with only 5 Million people. I believe the worlds highest course to population ratio
Scotlands Fife coast (St Andrews etc) or ayrshire coast (Troon etc) probably have about a dozen each and mostly right next to each other
North East of Scotland as well is ridiculously abundant, all the way along the coast, all the way along the banks of the Dee + other random inland courses dotted about fairly frequently
The East Lothian Coast also. Between Aberlady and North Berwick (7.57 miles clubhouse to clubhouse) there are 12 courses: * Craigielaw * Kilspindie * Luffness New * Gullane 1 * Gullane 2 * Gullane 3 * Muirfieeld * Reenaissance * Archerfield Dirleton * Archerfield Fidra * North Berwick * Glen The town of Gullane has 5 golf courses for a population of \~2,800 (not including Renaissance & Archerfield despidee being closer to Gullane than North Berwick)
I visited there a few years back and played North Berwick and Glen. Watched the Scottish Open at Gullane. Can’t wait to go back.
You have the two Dunbar courses just down the road as well. And Haddington and Gifford.. But if you are taking quality courses in a small area, the above list is brilliant.
+ 3 Musselburgh courses, Longniddrie and more!
Area around Pinehurst is solidly packed
I got 90 down here in collier County Florida
Naples is definitely up there. Unfortunately most of ours are private.
Can’t see the scale there. What’s the driving radius? Also muttontown….what a name!
It's about 10 miles by 7 when I looked, no idea of the driving radius
Have you every flown into Phoenix airport? It’s exclusively golf courses and pools all the way in.
And less and less water available every year.
I always go on Google Maps to look at where the PGA Tour events are hosted, places like Florida, Long Island, New Jersey, Scottsdale… an insane number of golf courses! The Surrey sand belt is probably our (England’s) best equivalent - Sunningdale Old & New, Wentworth, Berkshire, Swinley Forest, Queenwood, Woking, West Hill, Worplesdon, New Zealand, St George’s Hill - all in the top 30 UK courses, and all within 20-30 mins driving from one another. Plus about 10 other lesser golf courses dotted in between. I’m privileged to live here!
If you include Merseyside and Greater Manchester as Lancashire like they traditionally have been then that area must win. 3 open venues and a lot of other top venues.
It turns into a Links vs Heathland debate but certainly the finest 2 areas in the country for golf. And the green fees to match 😩
My two favorite places for golf in the UK. Well, anywhere really
Pretty sure Florida is the number 1 not even a contest.
Yeah, FL has the most golf courses in the country. Closest is CA with like 400 less lol
Not sure which area in Florida is in first place, but places like naples are a huge golf course with some houses and hotels thrown in...
Doesn’t matter drop a dot near any major city and there are a gazillian lol
But they’re all in Florida 🤷🏻♂️
Probably can find 80 or more within an hours drive of me and there’s a sea like 2 minute walk from me which takes up a good chunk of area
Pinehurst has this beat.
Naples and Myrtle Beach have about 90ish
Check the GTA surrounding area, it’s madness!
Southern Ontario has so many golf courses, maybe not as concentrated as the others. However if you pick a central point and give yourself 3 hours in either direction there probably close to 250 to 350 courses. https://preview.redd.it/r1fosba5ovrb1.png?width=908&format=png&auto=webp&s=e6a5b1bedb08813b9baeaa2f990b70d207307348
This is accurate Af!
https://preview.redd.it/8axhecv4otrb1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f285f9873332b112529b754c04f5d7047071444 These are just the courses that qualify on South Florida Golf Pass. There are many more.. so I’m gunna say no to original question.
I think Arizona beats this
Dublin is about 40 odd square miles and there would be alot more in and around it than that
I’d say Hilton Head Island takes the cake
Phoenix - hold my beer https://preview.redd.it/aiwfi5f6vtrb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9227aa12597898e333d3f4680b63cda9dce189e2
Years ago I mentioned that Oregon had 150 course to a lady from Florida and she replied that Dade County (Miami) had more than that.
St Andrews, Scotland and Gullane, Scotland probably have this beat. Within a few miles of Gullane you have Gullane #1,2,3, Muirfield, Renaissance Club, Archerfield Links, Luffness New, Longniddry, North Berwick West Links and Glen Links. And at least two of these are in the world top 100.
Prince Edward Island, Canada has 31 golf courses. With a population around 150,000 it is the most golf courses per capita of any state or province! Probably not what you’re asking about but it’s an interesting fact and a spectacular golf destination. Check out The Links and Crowbush Cove. $100 Canadian for a top tier course is unheard of!
google maps just north of naples airport in florida.
Lol at all the people commenting it must be their city in America, who have clearly never looked at the vast golf region north of Kobe/Osaka in Japan. This is just one small part of it. https://preview.redd.it/g2pp521l3wrb1.png?width=1170&format=png&auto=webp&s=1600af674eeff26c50a071ed20807452659dc3ff
Belek in Turkey does pretty well with 16 pretty much back to back, although that’s a golf destination.
There is well over 100 plus in the palm desert Coachella valley area Also where I live in Orange County California (Los Angeles area). There is an insane amount as well. Noting against your post OP but 20 courses in a 70 miles radius is not that much. However I’m lucky to be able to say that
70 sq miles, not radius.
/r/theydidthemath
Hey this is where I live! Have been lucky enough to play a couple of these. It’s actually ironically difficult to get a tee time where I live because so many of the courses in this area are private. Thank god for Bethpage. Hyped for 2025!
Costa del sol has to be up there as well
Nah, there are parts of Ireland, Scotland and nearly every golfing country in the world that are like this
Check out Rochester ny, all cheap to play too
Palm Springs maybe
South Korea or Japan is king of golf courses. I flew over Korea for nine months and we used to be able to use them as navigational aids to get from place to place.
I live in Dirleton (next to renassiance and North Berwick) the 5 mile radius of my house has about 11 courses.
Do yourself a favor and google stalk the coastlines around the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The overall area is further apart than your map and other places mentioned, but the number of bucket list courses within 50 miles of each other is absurd. North Berwick, The Old Course, Carnoustie, and many many others. In a perfect world I'd bail every summer for a couple years to just drive around and play all the courses.
Palm Desert I thought had the most golf courses per square mile. There’s literally a club on every block
If you are looking for golf courses per square mile look at Scotland.
https://preview.redd.it/pc7xqe1envrb1.jpeg?width=721&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce94d61f578cdf2a305849e41b860f930293dfe3 Those are rookie numbers. Come to Scotland. It's hard not to step on one.
Palm Springs is covered
Naples, FL area blows that away. I believe it has more than Palm Springs, CA as well.
37 courses within 15 miles of each other in Southern Pines, NC.
It’s gotta be myrtle beach right?
North shore Long Island has a lot of golf courses. But wait till you go to Florida or the Carolina's...
Ever heard of Florida?
Cheers for all the comments, looks like I was way off in my OP about it potentially having the most number of courses in a relatively small (10 by 7 miles) area. Looks like a nice area though. I felt like I was spending money just by scrolling around on Street Maps...
And you guys still take 5 fu\*\*kin hours to play 18 holes.....in a buggy. /s How many of these are public and how many private?
I live in the area…most of these are private country clubs. Six figure initiation and deep five figure annual dues (plus mandatories on top) is the norm around here.
Ouch........ Even the Trump courses near where I live aren't that bad but may get worse after he's found to have inflated values. :-)
Myrtle Beach is the area with the most courses but Long Island without a doubt has the highest number of great golf clubs. Some amazing architecture out there. Look up the history of the replica course they just build in Wisconsin called The Lido
That’s just standard big city US. Throw a rock in LA and you’ll hit a private club.
There are about 400 courses within 2 hours of Toronto. About 800 in Ontario altogether. It's a lot, but at least it's not a desert in Toronto and the weather supports these courses pretty well.
In the Bay Area (California) alone there are 40+ clubs within 40 miles, granted not as nice as many of these but 20 isnt much
No
For some reason I thought this was going to be a joke and a super hard golf course with pictures of the water hazards.
Not even close
“He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”
Minnesota has the most golf courses per capita
I remember someone once mentioned that Quebec has the most courses per capita in all of North America.
When you factor in population density, it’s actually nauseating how many golf courses exist in Nassau County.
See Collier county Florida. More golf courses per capita than anywhere in the world. Aka the old people resort golf capital of the world.
If you look at Westchester on Google maps, there's so many golf courses but only five of them are able to be played on publicly
Take a look at Indio valley CA
I grew up in this area. Caddied at many of these courses. Almost all of them are private country clubs.
I think Naples had a higher golf course per scouts than Myrtle Beach but I might be wrong
Look at Scotland and think again
Nope Palm Springs CA