How I Track My Top 100 Progress

I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend celebrating our nation’s independence!  I just got back from a relaxing week visiting family in New Hampshire so we have a short post this week.  I did manage to get a Top 100 public course in on the trip, so be looking out for that post soon.  This week I wanted to talk about how I track my Top 100 progress.

Well, it’s a little funny.  I would say I am mildly obsessed with lists.  I make all kinds chronicling things I have done and this definitely carries over to golf courses.  For example, I have a list for each Top 100 course played and each golf course I have ever played.  Here is my method for tracking all of this crazy journey.

• I have an Excel spreadsheet with each of the four lists as titles and the courses I have played listed below by their ranking.
• Also in this spreadsheet, I keep a list of all the courses I have played alphabetically by state.
• I have printed copies of each of the four lists where I tick off the ones I have played.
• Finally, I have a huge map of the USA on a pinboard where I track progress.

At this point, you might be asking what I am talking about.  As you can see, I like to be thorough as the first three points on the above list show.  The map, however, taps into my visual side and really shows how much of a dent is being made in the quest.  See below for what I mean:

And a zoomed-in view:

My wife helped out tremendously with this, in fact, she basically did all of it while I looked up the information for each course.  In case you didn’t know, she is much better at this stuff than me!  The map is color-coded for private and public courses.  Each orange pin is a course I have played from the lists.  The map really gives me a sense of what I have accomplished and what is still left to do.  I hope you enjoyed the insight into how I track this wonderful journey and my Top 100 progress.