Glenn Goodstein

Glory Days!

@LinksGems @golf_elie The very best

Elie Links might be the most charming course in all of Scotland. Every time I visit, I remember why I love to play this game. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@Top100Rick @PaulFXBrown Which Club?

@PaulFXBrown 😍

A good friend of mine is playing golf in Scotland for the first time. He just sent me this text. 😍 He’s a great player, member of a great club, played tons of USA T100’s. And yet after just 2 days he has seen the light. He gets it. He now sees what golf can be. If you haven’t been, book that trip to Scotland!

@Top100Rick @clarkh1963 Ahhh, the ROLL! On the plane heading to Scotland right this minute. I spend 12 to 13 weeks/year there now.

@clarkh1963 He’s not flexing on me lol. I’ve played way more top courses than him here and in the UK. I think the best golf is firm golf. Whether it’s UK or Australia or New Zealand or in the USA. We just have less of it.

@SavianoAlan @Top100Rick Because golf in Scotland is just better than golf in the US. UNPARALLELED really, overall. Unmistakeable “sense of place”.

🤦🏻 White ball, beautiful fairways and greens, lots of beers. Scenery around the course is the main variable. (I’m not saying all courses are equal btw) But hey, let’s take a shot at America because it’s so in vogue to do so. Why can’t Scotland just be great on its own without the comparison?

500k giveaway pt 2! Giving away these Masters themed GTS headcovers. One driver one wood. Must be a follower, comment like repost

@Top100Rick @greigaitken Rick - You are definitely the most positive/optimistic guy I “know”. American “stupidity” is WANTING to pay more. For example, Elie GHC is way more popular with Americans since 2016, when high season green fees were only £ 50 GBP. Now ~ £ 200 GBP. That’s BIG inflation!

Stupidity? Imagine getting into golf and loving it. So you want to see and play the great Scotland courses. That’s stupid? Consumerism is a huge issue. I’ll never understand people paying $30k to show off a purse or watch. But I’ll never begrudge someone for paying $500 to play a great golf course when they have no other choice.

Unfortunately, American golf tourists have transferred the costs of their "plastic surgery boob job version" of golf on to a helluva lot of Scottish courses in the last 15 or so years. Utterly grim.

@Top100Rick @greigaitken I think it’s a combo of supply and demand, PLUS American “consumerism” and STUPIDITY! 👍

Yes but how much of that is simply basic supply and demand? America course prices are skyrocketing as well, even mid tier publics. Golf has exploded. I’d bet good money that if all these courses froze their prices 5 years ago, they’d all be sold out. Social media has made travel golf cool. Americans have a big population and tons of disposable income, this is true.

@Top100Rick @greigaitken At least has CONTRIBUTED to way higher green fee prices in Scotland.

@Top100Rick @greigaitken US Golfers don’t care what they have to pay, in fact they are more desirous to play a course that is more expensive, than one that is cheap or reasonable. This very real dynamic has created WAY more expensive golf in Scotland, over the past decade especially!

@Top100Rick 4 for me

You hear about list chasers who chase the Top 100 golf courses. But there is a more exclusive list. The Discoveryland collection. The most expensive collection of clubs. Almost zero unaccompanied play allowed. Absolutely incredible experiences. I’ve only seen 9 of these.

@Top100Rick And by the way, it wasn’t a SUPER EASY 350-yard Par 4 back then.

@Top100Rick # 7 was a 350-yard Par 4 in 2001. Now it’s a 450-yard Par 4. Still the same tiny green. Not too complicated. I don’t think that technology and athleticism can/has overcome that in 25 years, do you?

5 Takeaways from the 2026 Masters: 1: There is no such thing as a “free wheeling” Rory. He wants to not care as much, but he always will. Winning a Masters is never easy. 2: Scottie is still the best hitter of the golf ball and it’s not that close. 3: The Masters is at risk of overexposure for the first time. The Par 3 and non stop coverage and merch hauls and social media is too much. 4. Back 9 pressure is real. The setup wasn’t super hard. No wind. And yet bad shots were hit over and over. 5. Augusta National is the best golf course. The risk and reward scenario is presented here better than anywhere in golf. It’s more strategic than any other golf course that exists.

@Top100Rick @barnratvapegod 😜😝

@Top100Rick @barnratvapegod AI

Rick, we know you bought this off Etsy. You aren’t fooling anyone!

@andrewjcarr29 @JonnyRoot_ There will always be Haters.

@JonnyRoot_ "unfair"

Maybe getting the opportunity to play Augusta National unlimited times the month leading into The Masters, while skipping three straight tournaments, gave Rory McIlroy an unfair advantage over the other competitors… Just maybe. Congrats, or whatever.

@andrewjcarr29 @feedtheball Who is this Legend you speak of?

@feedtheball From the green back to the fairway with an absolute legend.

Posting random pics that pop up on my phone carousel. Any guesses? This should be an easy one.

@Top100Rick Used to be a 350-yard Par 4! At least until 2001. Totally different hole now.

2 straight shots. That’s the question hole 7 at Augusta National asks. And the best pros on earth can’t answer the call. Average well over par the first 2 days. They are so focused on hitting it far that a straight ball is a mystery. Ben Hogan would have ate this hole up.

@Top100Rick Turns out that golf is a hard game……. Lovely, the best,…….but very hard.

Scottie Scheffler with the big bird! The ball flight is insane. Imagine being able to hit a wood that high. The beautiful fade brings a tear. Scottie will top ten. Maybe top 5. And he’s played like absolute garbage. Still the best player in the world.

@Top100Rick Classic!

Me chipping when the cart girl is watching: x.com/TonyDarby88/st…