1) Augusta

2) Pebble Beach

3) St. Andrews

4) TPC Sawgrass

My top 5 courses I would love to play:

1) Augusta National

2) Cypress Point

3) Pine Valley

4) Shinnecock Hills

5) Royal County Down

1. St. Andrews

2. Augusta National

3. Pebble Beach

4. Bethpage Black

5. Oakmont

Augusta National is such an obvious choice, I'm not sure I even need to mention it.  I'd consider giving up golf for the chance to play one round there.  So with that being said, I'll list numbers 2-6.

2.  St. Andrews

3.  Pebble Beach

4.  Cypress Point

5.  The Country Club

6.  Royal County Down

I have to say, narrowing my list to 5 was difficult.  If I were to assign some sort of point system to this, I would guess my top 10 would all be very close.

1. Augusta National

2. Royal County Down

3. Merion

4. East Lake Golf Club

5. Colonial C.C. Fort Worth

My list will be all Canadian tracks:

1. The National GC of Canada

2. Goodwood GC

3. Cabot Links GC

4. St. George's GC

5. Capilano

Hope to actually play at least Cabot in my lifetime. Hope to meet the right people to play the others on my list. 

1. Augusta

2. St. Andrews Olde Course

3. Pebble Beach

4. Merion

5. Oakmont

Has to be 

1) St Andrews

2) Oak Hill ( Since I live in Rochester NY)

3) Pebble 

4) Bethpage Black

5) Brookline

Mine would be ... 

5) Bandon Dunes

4) Pebble Beach

3) Crystal Downs CC 

2) Old Course at St. Andrews 

1) Augusta National 

Now I just need a few friends to go with me! 

1.  Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland

2.  Augusta National, GA

3.  Pinehurst No. 2, NC

4.  Sea Pines Country Club, Hilton Head, SC

5.  The River Course @ Kiawah Island, SC 

Abby:  I am sure that a few of us would be happy to join you in your quest.  Southern Pines was actually on my list of courses to play and I live so close. 

1. Augusta
2. St. Andrews
3. Cypress Point
4. Floridian
5. Cabot Links

1) Augusta National

2) Pebble Beach

3) TPC at Sawgrass

4) St. Andrews

5) Riviera (played it in October)

1. Pebble

2. Pinehurst

3. Bethpage

4. Whistling Straits

5. Erin Hills

I picked public courses and am biased to my Wisconsin roots!

Dr. K's Bucket List!

1. Pebble Beach......Check!

2. Augusta National.

3. PGA West......Check!

4. Whistling Straits......Check!

5. The Old Course.

Good Stuff!

Cheers

1. Augusta 

2. Pebble Beach

3. The Old Course at St. Andrews

4. Oakmont

5. The Country Club in Brookline MA

The Riv

Royal County Down

Old Course

Cypress Point

The Bridges

Augusta 

Pebble Beach

The Old Course

Pinehurst #2

Bandon Dunes

Matt P great post!!

5. Bethpage Black/ Torrey Pines & all other top Municipal courses in US. 

4. All Bandon Dunes courses

3. Kiawah Island Ocean Course

2. Pebble Beach

1. All Public (& Private if lucky enough) TPC Courses in their portfolio

Abby; give us all some time to plan before we go on the golf traveling tour!!  

For me:

Pebble

TPC Sawgrass 

Whistling Straights 

Brandon Dunes

Cypress Point

1) Augusta National 

2) Pine Valley

3) St. Andrews

4) Cypress Point

5) National Golf Links of America

I need to come up with an realistic list. 

Augusta

Royal County Downs

Shinnecock Hills

Chicago G.C.

Seminole

I've played

pebble beach links

torrey pines south

pinehurst 2

pinehurst 4

streamsong blue and red

sawgrass - next month

i have a list of 100 courses based on golf digests 2013-2014 list of top 100 public courses 

Your list pretty much covers my choices.  Only problem is cost.  Pebble is out of reach for all but the wealthy.  Advance tee times require staying at the lodge, and with room and green fees you're up around $1250 dollars for 18 holes.  Augusta is member only so out of reach. St Andrews requires expensive travel and getting into a lottery to see if you get "awarded" a tee time.  Whistling Straights and Bethpage are the only courses that an ordinary person has a chance of playing and Bethpage is the only one with a reasonable green fee.    Boy, I hated to put a pin in your bubble but that's reality.