Great Golf Course vs Great Golf Day | Weekday Golf Podcast Ep. 20

For years, golf course rankings have tried to answer a deceptively simple question: what makes a golf course great? We intuitively believe that our overall golf experience includes, but extends beyond pure course design. But we were curious to learn how the official ratings worked. 🎙️ This week, we sit down with Golf Digest course rating panelist David Rawlinson to explore that question from every angle — architecture, strategy, aesthetics, conditioning, atmosphere, history, and the emotional pull that keeps golfers coming back to certain places. ⛳ Along the way, we talk about: • Why some famous holes work so well • Risk/reward and “choose your own adventure” golf • Trees, walkability, routing, and the psychology of design • Whether great golf architecture can ever really be objective As the conversation unfolds, we circle around the main question: is it possible to separate a course rating from your experience? Contact us: [email protected] Instagram: @weekdaygolfpodcast YouTube: @weekdaygolfpodcast Twitter/X: @weekdaygolfpod Design by: Austin Wooldridge Music provided by: ⁠https://www.classicals.de/mozart-figaro"