The World's Top 100 Photo Montage

The winter months always present a challenge to post new write-ups. Over the next couple of months we will present our year end review and some other interesting posts that will no doubt dazzle my readers. The year end review is always one of my favorites because I recount reader comments from throughout the year. I have a trip planned to Australia in March so the spring and summer should be filled with a rich line-up of new course postings.

At great sacrifice to my family and work I have been traveling the world in the service of my faithful readers to report back my view of the top golf courses in the world. I've been toting my digital camera for the last four and have accumulated a nice collection of photos from the far corners of the earth. Here for your viewing pleasure, I have assembled my own favorites together in one place. Alfred Hitchcock has also inspired me to insert a cameo appearance in one of the photos.

Like the lovely lass in Seinfeld, there have been no touch-ups. All my pictures are real and they're spectacular. Enjoy!

Cypress Point's par three 15th hole

Cypress Point's par three 3rd green

Cypress Point's 17th along Monterey Bay

The approach to Valderrama's second with the ubiquitous cork trees

The beauty of Loch Lomond's par three fifth hole

Rossdhu House, Loch Lomond's world beating clubhouse

The par three 14th at Crystal Downs in Michigan

Maidstone's par three fourteenth along the Atlantic Ocean

The 9th hole at Myopia Hunt Club, Massachusetts on a fall day

Sweeping the dew at Somerset Hills 6th hole, site of a former race track

The view from the elevated tee on the 15th at Friar's Head, New York

Inside the clubhouse at The National Golf Links of America, New York

Sebonack's 11th hole at dusk, Southampton, New York

The exciting Entry drive at Yeamans Halls, Charleston, South Carolina

Seminole's pink clubhouse, Juno Beach, Florida

Sunrise at Cabo del Sol, Mexico

The desert meets the ocean at the 6th, Cabo del Sol, Mexico

The "horseshoe" third green at Yeamans Hall, South Carolina

The 11th, "Short" hole at Camargo Club, Cincinatti

The mystical approach to Morfontaine, north of Paris

The wild par three 4th hole at Morfontaine's Valliere Course, France

The magical par three 17th hole at Chantilly, France

Durban's 3rd hole routed through the bush, South Africa

Durban's 17th hole with wild-undulating fairway, South Africa

The narrow first tee shot at Naruo, near Kobe, Japan

The automatic traction system that shuttles clubs around Naruo, Japan

The massively sloping 14th fairway at Japan's Hirono Golf Club

The mist lifting on the 17th hole at Kawana Golf Club, Japan

The world-class par five 15th hole at Kawana, Japan

The uphill dog-leg, wavy fairway on the 8th hole, Prairie Dunes, Kansas