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We've played them ourselves. Chances are good that we share your view of what makes a course great (or in some cases not that great) more than a major publication. We'll also review the local muni in the same fashion as the 5-Star resort down the road from it.
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The Golf Crusade's Best of 2024
Recap the best courses, new stops on the road to 1000 and our favorite holes of the year as The Golf Crusade looks back at its Best of 2024.
Dooner
Dec 15, 202415 min read
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ONE-NIGHT ONLY! 24 Hours to Golf in Upstate South Carolina
Got Golf? Got one night to get away? How many courses can you play in 24 hours? Get down with us for ONE NIGHT ONLY in Upstate SC!
Dooner
Sep 9, 20247 min read
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Haig Point | Hilton Head's True Island Golf Experience
Hilton Head is a Top 10 U.S. golf destination, yet so many people ask 'where should I play'? Meet HHI's True Island Experience: HAIG POINT!
Dooner
May 10, 20247 min read
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The Golf Crusade's Best of 2023
Relive the best courses, photos, stories, holes & moments with The Golf Crusade's Best of 2023 Fake Awards!
Dooner
Dec 5, 202310 min read
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Tot Hill Farm ROCKS Iron Maverick III! Reverse Routing Debuts at 2-Day Strantz Celebration
When a Mike Strantz design gets a $2M makeover, The Golf Crusade (& 170+ Strantz Fans) came calling for Iron Maverick III at Tot Hill Farm!
Dooner
Nov 2, 202314 min read
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Welcome (Back) To The Waynesville Inn & Golf Club - A Smoky Mountain Miracle
"Please allow Me to reintroduce Myself..." The Carolinas are an embarrassment of riches when it comes to both the sheer quantity of golf...
Dooner
Sep 28, 20237 min read
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The Iron Maverick III - Tot Hill Farm
Tot Hill Farm's unlucky streak has finally run out! New owners, vision & $2M+ restoration of its Mike Strantz course have us celebrating.
Dooner
Jul 16, 20238 min read
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The Boston Tee Party at George Wright Golf Course
Boston's venerable muni - George Wright Golf Course - is pound for pound one of the best Donald Ross experiences available to the public.
Dooner
Jun 23, 20234 min read
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Capon Springs & Farms Resort | West Virginia's Golden Age Gem
At some point on your way to play a new course, the anticipation of seeing the course itself often makes the drive - no matter how long -...
Dooner
Mar 16, 20236 min read
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The Golf Crusade's Best of 2022
It's that most wonderful time of year again! It's a time for memories to be made - just likely not on golf course unless you're really,...
Dooner
Dec 28, 20229 min read
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Lynch Country Club: The Course Time Never Found
In the digital age, how could a golf course go unnoticed by so many & for so long? You're about to find out... Get off-the-grid at Lynch CC!
Dooner
Oct 31, 202215 min read
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TENNESSEE TILLY in Johnson City -- The Little Club That (Finally) Could
Johnson City Country Club is the only original A.W. Tillinghast design that still exists in Tennessee. See how they reinvigorated their club
Dooner
Oct 6, 202217 min read
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THE PATCH - A Gamechanger for Growing Golf
Take a deep dive with The Golf Crusade into The Patch, a 12-hole alternative golf course designed by Bill Bergin in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Dooner
Jun 27, 20228 min read
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Springdale Resort | Tragedy to Triumph in North Carolina's Smoky Mountains
Along the nine miles of Cruso, NC, Springdale Resort is metaphorically and geographically its heart. Read how it broke, healed and beats on!
Dooner
May 5, 20226 min read
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Best Golf Course You've Never Heard Of? Bright's Creek | Mill Spring, NC
Bright's Creek, once a highly-ranked Tom Fazio retreat at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, is back from the dead!
Dooner
Jun 8, 20215 min read
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The Iron Maverick II
3 COURSES | 2 DAYS | 1 HELL OF A TIME! Play Bulls Bay, Caledonia & True Blue on Sept 27-28, 2021 with The Golf Crusade!
Dooner
Jan 27, 20216 min read
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Golf Crusade's Best of Lists for 2020
Right out of the gate, we acknowledge that 2020 sucked, right? No need to dive deeper on that! While it was a draining year on any number...
Dooner
Dec 28, 20209 min read
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Ten Hidden Gems in the Heart of Appalachia
Golf in Appalachia is as diverse as the landscape and as unique as the culture itself. Take a quick spin around the Heart of Appalachia
Dooner
Nov 25, 20208 min read
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Graysburg Hills - Chuckey, Tennessee
Rees Jones designed 27 hole public golf course in the Appalachian Highlands region of East Tennessee.
Dooner
Aug 17, 20207 min read
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EVERY HOLE at Royal New Kent Golf Club | A #GolfCrusade Photo Gallery
Who wouldn't want to play a course that won Golf Digest's Best New Upscale Course in America back in 1997 and was just honored by Golf Inc.,
Dooner
Jul 28, 20202 min read
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Knoxville, Tennessee - A Par 3 Course Paradise
Abraham Lincoln famously stated in the Gettysburg Address that our great country was dedicated to the proposition that ALL men are...
Dooner
Jun 9, 20208 min read
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#GolfCrusade's Best of 2019
Hello Friends. ...Man I hope we don't have to pay Jim Nantz for that. Oh the places we've been... For a couple of (nearly) forty year old...
Dooner
Dec 26, 20199 min read
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What's in a Name? Linville Knows... Explore the Brand History in the True Birthplace of Golf in North Carolina
Welcome to Linville, North Carolina - an exclusive golf Mecca populated with some of the best mountain golf in the United States.
Dooner
Oct 27, 20197 min read
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McLemore Rises 'Above The Clouds' in Rising Fawn, GA
Chattanooga, Tennessee is about as good a golf town as you'll find in a city it's size. From The Honors Course to Sweetens Cove, from...
Dooner
Oct 12, 20196 min read
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THE IRON MAVERICK presented by GolfCrusade.com
Mike Strantz changed the game of golf course architecture forever and for the better. It is in his honor and in celebration of the...
Dooner
Jul 6, 20194 min read
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The Palmer Course at Stonewall Resort
How do you write an introduction for a course whose name bears a legend at a resort built around a lake that bears the name of a local...
Dooner
Jun 11, 20196 min read
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Lake Toxaway CC & The Greystone Inn - A Marriage of Smoky Mountain Masterpieces
One of the best course architects you've probably never heard of laid down an absolute gem amidst rocky peaks, waterfalls and calm...
Dooner
May 18, 20196 min read
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Achasta - Dahlonega, GA
In one of the prettiest small towns in the southern string of the Appalachians, you'll find a quiet river valley adorned with a Jack...
Dooner
Feb 12, 20195 min read
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EVERY HOLE AT TOBACCO ROAD | Photo Gallery of the Mike Strantz Sandhills Masterpiece
Stick your head deep in the sand with the #GolfCrusade as we show you angles of the Mike Strantz masterpiece you may have never seen before!
Dooner
Jan 9, 20192 min read
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#GolfCrusade Best Of 2018
The courses have been played. The votes have been cast. We're pleased to announce our first annual Golf Crusade Best of 2018 Lists. We...
Dooner
Dec 18, 201813 min read
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El Camino at Tobacco Road - Sanford, NC
Take a peek under the hood at El Camino - the once hidden Par 3 Course routing of the front nine at Mike Strantz' famed Tobacco Road GC.
Dooner
Nov 22, 20183 min read
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Raven Rock - Jenkins, KY
Coal Country. If you've been there, driven through it, or call it home, you know there's not much out there except mines and vast...
Dooner
Sep 24, 20188 min read
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RECAP: The American Legends at The Olde Farm Golf Club - Bristol, VA
The American Legends at The Olde Farm Golf Club in Bristol, Virginia raised $56.6 million for the Mountain Mission School (Grundy, VA)....
Dooner
Sep 23, 20181 min read
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GALLERY: Tennessee National - Loudon, TN
This Greg Norman Signature Design transverses an undulating peninsula surrounded by the Tennessee River. Managed by Troon Golf, this...
Dooner
Aug 5, 20181 min read
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Liberty National - Jersey City, NJ
#GodBlessAmerica. What can you say about a modern American golf icon that virtually bows at the feet of THE original American icon that...
Dooner
Jul 1, 20187 min read
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The Links at Stono Ferry - Hollywood, SC
What do you get when you combine a Revolutionary War Battlefield and a middling resort-style layout? The Links at Stono Ferry, that’s...
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Jun 21, 20183 min read
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Bristol Harbour Lodge & Golf Club - Canandaigua, NY
UPDATE: As of 1/1/2022, Bristol Harbour's owners have closed the golf course for good. We chose not to delete this post, because that's...
Dooner
Jun 16, 20186 min read
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'Virginia Is For (Golf) Lovers' at Rock Harbor
You remember those fantasy courses in the old Tiger Woods video games? Remember the one called ‘The Predator’? Ever wonder what it would...
Dooner
Jun 1, 20188 min read
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Lake Jovita Golf and Country Club North Course - Dade City, FL
Dade City has been compared to the great golf meccas by no one but it just may be time for that conversation to start happening....
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May 23, 20183 min read
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Wasioto Winds - Pineville, KY
What do you get when you cross an extremely rugged part of the country, a drainage basin and one of the best course architect's in the...
Dooner
May 20, 20188 min read
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The Shawnee Inn - Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA
Every course has a history. Not every course is history. The Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort has the distinction of being the course that...
Dooner
May 17, 20184 min read
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Caledonia Golf & Fish Club - Pawleys Island, SC
Next time you're in Myrtle Beach and are bored playing the same courses, do yourself a favor and head to the southern end of the Grand...
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May 8, 20183 min read
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Holston Hills CC - Knoxville, TN
You've probably never heard of it because it's in Knoxville. If HHCC were in a major market, you'd have it on your bucket list. Holston...
Dooner
May 1, 20184 min read
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Preston CC - Kingwood, WV
Unless you live in Kingwood, WV, you're going to have a drive to get to Preston Country Club. However, once you get there, you'll find a...
Dooner
Apr 25, 20183 min read
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Atlanta National - Milton, GA
If you get an invite past the front gate, expect to see a beautiful course but don’t be surprised if this beautiful course eats your...
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Apr 10, 20183 min read
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