The other thing that I've experienced and this was when the game was first released (so i dont' know if it's still happening) but if I try to search for the exact name, let's just say "The beach of Nebraska" and I type that in I won't find anything, but if I type in just "the" (this is before having this issue of the game taking me immediately to the first course that I explained in the OP) then the game would show me a bunch of listings with The as the first word and somewhere in the list "The beach of Nebraska" would show up. It felt as if the game can't find exact searches.
For real life example, somebody suggested trying the "The Beast" course, so I typed in "The Beast" and it found no results, that's when I tried searching just on "the" and there were multiple pages and I assume one of them did contain The Beast course.
Anyway, search by text needs some help.