Laid out within a redeveloped parcel of land on the old Fort Benjamin Harrison US Army post, the course at The Fort Golf Resort is a Pete Dye and Tim Liddy layout that made its first appearance in 1997.
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Laid out within a redeveloped parcel of land on the old Fort Benjamin Harrison US Army post, the course at The Fort Golf Resort is a Pete Dye and Tim Liddy layout that made its first appearance in 1997.
The Fort
One of seven courses on the Pete Dye Golf Trail promoted by the Indiana Office of Tourism Development, The Fort Golf Course occupies 240 acres of the Fort Harrison State Park on the outskirts of Indianapolis.
Holes are laid out within the former Fort Benjamin Harrison Military Reservation, which served a number of roles as a troop reception centre, training complex and soldier support facility during all the major military conflicts between The Great War and Desert Storm.
The base was closed in the early 1990s but the U.S. Department of the Interior approved the State of Indiana’s request to convert a sizeable proportion of the army post into a state park and nature preserve, with the golf course earmarked as one of the public sporting amenities.
Featuring short par fours at the 2nd and 10th, and with back-to-back par fives at the 6th and 7th, the course is a Pete Dye and Tim Liddy co-design that can be extended to almost 7,150 yards from the back markers, playing to a par of 72.