A Golf Odyssey with The Real McCoy
A Golf Odyssey with The Real McCoy
By: Bob McCoy
A Golf Odyssey with The Real McCoy is much more than Bob McCoy’s chronology of his unrivaled feat of playing the World Top 100Courses in 100 consecutive days in 1997 (the 100/100). He also explains in detail how he developed a battle plan and managed the logistics for the 100/100 and what it was like to be a member of five of those clubs.
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Bob McCoy was born in Buffalo in 1939 and didn’t start playing golf seriously until he was 24 years old. Instead, he grew up playing ice hockey and was a defenseman on Melrose (MA) High School’s New England Championship team, an undefeated Hebron Academy (Maine) team, and Harvard College’s Ivy League Championship team. Bob’s professional life as an equity analyst brought him to Wall Street, where he discovered that his business travels allowed him to play the best courses in the world, which led him to concentrate on playing courses on the U.S. and World Top 100 lists. He eventually became the third person to play Golf Digest’s U.S. Top 100 courses (1984), the second person to play GOLF Magazine’s World Top 100 courses (1988), and the first person to have played both the U.S. and World Top 100 courses. But after all this, he did one more thing no one else had, or has since, done: In 1997, he played the World Top 100 courses in 100 consecutive days.
Bob is a former member of Oakmont, Baltusrol, Pine Valley, Royal St. George’s, and The R&A, and has been successfully rating courses since 1984 for leading golf magazines. He splits his time now between Pinehurst, NC and Boothbay, ME.
