Learned to play at McGregor. This was back in the early 80's, though. Back then it was an actual links style course, no water, some sort of heinous rough extending out 100-150 yards off the tees. It wasn't much fun playing out of that straw, so I learned to hit the ball off the tee pretty quickly. (Unfortunately, I never learned to putt.) They had the State Amateur there in 1982, I believe. Heard they've built a lot of housing all around it, so it may have lost some of its former charm, but if it's anything like it used to be it's probably worth playing.