Customer Reviews

Fodor's Golf Digest's Best Places to Play, 6th Edition (Special-Interest Titles)

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You will be quite surprised if you think the 6th Edition of this book will include even more courses than the 5th Edition. The 5th Edition included 6,500 courses and the new 6th Edition has only 3,500 courses. I thought more and more courses were being built all the time. In New Mexico the courses reviewed dropped from 50 to 21. How did this happen? Apparently, only courses with 3 stars or better were included this time. Not only are some courses with less than 3 stars worth playing, but much valuable information was included with those course listings(phone numbers, costs, architects, etc). Granted, the list price for the 6th Edition is $3 less that the 5th Edition, but I would much rather pay the extra cost of having the more complete and up-to-date listings. I would have given the 6th Edition 5 stars if it had the complete listings, but in its shortened version I can give it only 3 stars.

The same great content as in previous editions, but just the courses rated 3 stars and above in this edition. That's fine with me. I take this book with me on vacation, and I never pay attention to the lower rated courses anyway, so there's less material to wade through now. The 3 and 3 1/2 star courses may be nice, but I usually skip them too. The star ratings and the reader comments give you an excellent idea of what to expect. The other details are also very helpful: green fees, type of driving range, nearby large town, etc. When I'm on a golf trip, I'd be lost without this book.

not as good as the fourth edition, even the average golf course gets four stars jb in pittsburgh

Very informative reference guide - with one exception. In previous editions the comments of golfers who played and rated the golf courses were printed in some detail. It appears that this latest edition has excerpted part of their comments and strung them together. The result - at least to me - lacked the "flavor" of your previous readers' comments.

One of the better books to review when traveling to play golf. I found it to be quite accurate and informative. Worth the $ if you travel and play!

The current 6th edition is nowhere near as good as the 2nd edition!there are 700 less courses and no bad reviews.The worst review I saw was 2 1/2 stars.Good thing I kepr my 2nd edition.