Sycamore Hills - Indiana - USA
11836 Covington Road,
Fort Wayne,
Indiana (IN) 46814,
USA
+1 (0) 260 625 4324
5 miles W of Fort Wayne
Members and their guests only
Don Hunter
Tim Frazier
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Sycamore Hills Golf Club officially opened for play in 1989, when the designer, Jack Nicklaus marked the occasional with an inaugural round. It’s billed as perhaps the finest golf club in the Midwest and there is no doubt that the former estate of the Fort Wayne provides near perfect golfing terrain. The Sycamore Hills site undulates gently with the narrow Aboite River having been used to great effect. Mature sycamore, oak and fir trees frame many holes. With generous fairways you’d expect to score well, but with peninsula green sites and plenty of trademark Nicklaus traps set alongside natural waste bunkers, Sycamore Hills is a course on which scoring well largely depends on accurate approach play. In the opinion of Jack Nicklaus: “Sycamore Hills is one of the finest sites we've ever had the opportunity on which to design a golf course… It has gorgeous trees, great movement of property, and it had some existing lakes that really functioned quite well. The site had a little river moving though the property which really afforded a lot of opportunities to create different shots.” |
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Mark Beber
I read the first review and find it very unfair. This is a finely manicured, tough course to play. The greens are fast, very fast, with a left, right, up, down on almost every putt, making one use all the tools in their mind to figure out where it is going. Long, lots of trees and lots of water. I find this, or the Brickyard, to be the best in Indiana.
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M. James Ward
There are many top tier layouts in the Hoosier State -- safe to say Sycamore Hills is not of them. The facility came into existence during the time when Jack Nicklaus was creating more and more layouts and the resulting lack of architectural heft is in clear evidence when playing Sycamore Hills. The course accentuates a "big" presence with many different features scattered about but there's little to really move the emotional meter.
The conditioning side is what carried the day and the facility does not disappoint on that front.
However, the joy in playing golf comes when inherent shotmaking challenges you relish are paired together with first rate turf. Having the latter without the former is clearly disappointing. I've heard that Nicklaus has an interest in getting back to the site. I can only hope that happens. Until that happens, relish other courses in Indiana, one of the most underrated for golf course offerings in America.
by M. James Ward
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Fergal O'Leary
It was one of Jack’s earliest creations, and from speaking with individuals at the club, Jack is eager to get back and significant revamp the course. It’s in great condition and certainly enjoyable for all golfers.
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