Shanty Creek (Cedar River)

Cedar River is the second of the two favorite courses at the Shanty Creek Resort, alongside The Legend. Working with terrain with less altitude change than the latter course, Tom Weiskopf was able to create wider fairways and what is generally considered a slightly easier round than that at the Legend.

The initial plans for the course involved more interaction with the title river, however conflict with environmentalists means golfers will only see the Cedar through the trees for a small portion of the route. Coincidentally, this occurs during two of the course’s more notable holes.

Weiskopf guarantees a drivable par four at every one of his layouts, and No. 13 is Cedar River’s entry...still, it will take quite a tee shot to work around a huge centerline bunker, a centerline tree, and slide down onto the putting surface (the wide-open left fairway might be a safer play). The following hole is a dropdown par three that hovers above the river.