New Top 100 You Can Play And Self Promotion Warning

Jill Painter reports (and quotes yours truly extensively) on Rustic Canyon's inclusion on both the latest Golf Magazine Top 100 You Can Play List, as well as editor Joe Passov naming it the number one course he'd pay double to play.

Passov sums up the latest entries to the list, including the miraculous addition of Old Macdonald even though it opened in June (those panelists get around!) and the inclusion of two once-private courses. There's also the state by state list.

But enough about that, let's get back to Rustic Canyon.

"A lot of things strike me about Rustic Canyon," Passov said. "For starters, from an aesthetic standpoint, it doesn't dazzle you, but it fits so beautifully into its natural landscape. A lot of courses are built completely at odds with their surroundings. It doesn't have an ocean view or it's not hanging off clifftops. Rustic Canyon melts into the natural terrain. It's very old-world golf. That's what Scots intended for the game. It wasn't supposed to be expensive."