Golf.com's latest list of the "Top 100 You Can Play" recently came out, which lead me to a few interesting discoveries:
1) I've only played 2 of the courses on the list (#6 Bethpage Black and #41 Taconic Golf Club). This is vaguely unsettling.
2) On the state-by-state list, the #5 public course in Massachusetts is Shining Rock Golf Club in Northridge. I've never heard of it! (Or at least I hadn't until this list came out.) Apparently it's new this year. This flabbergasts me. Obviously it vaults immediately into this year's "Must Play" list.
3) The #2 course in Connecticut is Wintonbury Hills Golf Club, which is a municipal course in Bloomfield. This is notable because it's almost exactly 1/2 way between Boston and New York City, which makes it the perfect meeting place for my brother and I. Here's what unfolded when we met there this past weekend....
