Ed Ault

Arkansas

With fairways hewn from beautiful Ozark Mountain woodland, the 18-hole layout at Mountain Ranch Golf Club offers far more than the normal golfing challenge that might be expected of a resort course.

Host venue for several state golf championships, Mountain Ranch is a tough test of golf from the back tees, which stretch the layout to 6,780 yards, and you’ll need to be well in control of your game here as fairways are tightly tree-lined all the way from start to finish.

The right doglegging par five 14th (in the most southerly part of the property) is a memorable hole – with more than an eighty foot drop from tee to fairway – and it’s followed by the hardest hole on the card at the uphill 15th.