From time to time, in golf and in life, it’s good to get outside of your comfort zone. Way outside….

It’s good to test yourself, to throw yourself into that burning ring of fire, to tee off from the “tips” (the hardest tee box), on a cold windy day, on a hard golf course like I did this weekend. To help you discover what you’re really
made of — and on the 8th hole and a couple of lost balls, I started thinking of some of the hardest golf courses I have encountered. I wanted to share my list of the 10 Hardest Golf Courses.
These are courses that grab you by the collar on the first tee, slap you around for five hours and then reluctantly agree to let you limp your sorry carcass back into the clubhouse for resuscitation.
They are courses meant for drag-out, high-stakes battles at high noon. Courses where they should sell “I survived a round at … ” T-shirts in the golf shop. Fields of bad dreams.
This is not a scientific or even definitive ranking. It’s my list of layouts that have battered and bruised me, ruined my scorecards and made me want to weep …
If you survived one of these courses, tell me all about it.

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Families that flock to campgrounds nearly always choose this adventure holidays as a means to get closer to nature. The National Wildlife Federation released (in unnumbered order) its Top Ten Great Places to see America’s Wildlife. Family campers in Maine, Pennsylvania, Florida, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Montana can view wildlife up close at the NWF’s top ten locations.

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