Occupying an area of around 36,000 square miles, the Hoosier State of Indiana lies in the Midwest region of the United States with Indianapolis designated as both its capital and largest city.
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Victoria National Golf Club rose like a phoenix from the ashes of an old coal mine and it was laid out in 1997 by Tom Fazio who made the vision of the founder, Terry Friedman, an exciting reality.
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
The Swan Lake Resort in northern Indiana lies within easy striking distance of Chicago, Detroit and Indianapolis so it is the ideal place to have the United States Golf Academy on-site.
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Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, United States
Indiana, USA
A Pete and Alic Dye design on a family-owned farm on Little Eagle Creek and the city of Zionsville in Indiana.
Crooked Stick Golf Club was one of Pete Dye’s first golf course commissions and it was constructed the year after he had spent some time in Scotland playing many of the traditional links...
The Donald Ross layout dates back to 1916 when it was the second 18-hole golf course to be commissioned at the French Lick Resort (following an earlier Tom Bendelow design).
The Pete Dye layout at French Lick opened for play at a reputed cost of $28m in 2009. The golf course occupies a difficult site that required 2.5 million cubic yards of earth to be moved during construction.
Laid out close to Lake Maxinkuckee, Culver Academies is a William Langford design that dates back to 1924. Restored in 2015 by Bobby Weed, some commentators reckon this is now the best 9-hole golf course in the USA.
Opened in 2020 and designed by Steve Smyers, the Pfau Course at Indiana University is the result of the melding of the University’s former Championship and par three courses. The architect was given free rein and he took full advantage of the property’s topography to create an exciting layout.
Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore laid out the Warren golf course at Notre Dame in 1999 and it has since hosted a number of high profile competitions, and will host the U.S. Senior Open Championship in 2019.
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.
Broadmoor Country Club’s Donald Ross-designed course was inaugurated in the early 1920s and it still retains its Golden Age charm, despite the fact that playing corridors have narrowed somewhat by the growth of trees down the years.
Founded in 1891, the Country Club of Indianapolis is one of the oldest clubs in the nation. The course in play on today's present site is a Tom Bendelow design from 1912 which was refashioned by William Diddel in 1931 then Pete Dye in 1992.
The Kampen course at the 36-hole Purdue University Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex is a Pete Dye design named in honor of Purdue supporter, Emerson Kampen, and it's one of the nation’s top collegiate courses.
Situated 25 miles to the south west of Lafayette, the course at Harrison Hills Golf and Country Club was set out by William Langford in 1924, with Tim Liddy carrying out an upgrade seventy years later.
One of a select number of golf courses to host PGA, LPGA and Champions Tour events, Brickyard Crossing has four of its fairways (at holes 7 to 10) located inside the oval of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway track.
Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr, the fairways at Prairie View Golf Club are laid out in two distinct groupings; the front nine holes are set out in open country whilst the back nine meander through forested terrain.
Located within a 247-acre property on the outskirts of Lebanon, The Trophy Club course is a mid-1990s Tim Liddy design that’s routed around the meandering waters of Prairie Creek.
The Sycamore Hills Golf Club site undulates gently with the narrow Aboite River having been used to great effect. Mature sycamore, oak and fir trees frame many holes.
Bill Diddel established the 18-hole layout at Elcona Country Club in 1956, constructed within a large 342-acre property. The course has since undergone a renovation by Arthur Hills, when particular attention was paid to improving the home green.
Built by Tim Liddy, the course at Rock Hollow Golf Club sits on a 300-acre site that was reclaimed from an old gravel pit belonging to a local aggregate manufacturing company.
Unveiled in 1992, the course at Sultan's Run Golf Club in Jasper features one of the best closing holes in Indiana, a 429-yard right doglegged par four which is played to a home green that’s framed by a spectacular waterfall.
Formed in 1916, South Bend Country Club was designed by Chicagoan George O’Neil and was host to the Western Open in 1935. In recent years the course has been chosen as the venue for a number of prestigious Indiana state events.
The Sagamore Golf Club operates within a residential development situated close to Noblesville and the members’ course is a modern Jack Nicklaus design that debuted in 2003.
Architect Bill Diddel constructed the original 18-hole course at Woodland Country Club in the 1950s and this layout was given a full makeover by Pete Dye fifty years later.
The golf facility at Bridgewater Club in Carmel is a late 1990s Pete Dye design and there are actually two golfing layouts set within a 750-acre woodland property: an 18-hole Championship course and a 9-hole Executive course.
Robert Trent Jones Snr designed the North and West nines at Otter Creek in 1964 and they comprise the main 18-hole golf course at this 27-hole facility. Rees Jones added another circuit - the East nine - thirty years after his father’s fairways were first fashioned here.
Located to the north west of South Bend, not far from the University of Notre Dame - and its famous “Fighting Irish” varsity sports teams - Blackthorn Golf Club is one of the best municipal tracks in the state of Indiana.
Unveiled in 2002, the 18-hole layout at Chariot Run Golf Club is the main sporting attraction at Horsehoe Southern Indiana, the casino complex formerly known as Caesars Indiana.
Developed in the 1970s by Bethlehem Steel, Sand Creek Country Club in Chesterton boasts twenty-seven golf holes, designed by Ken Killian and Dick Nugent, with the Creek and Lake nines forming the club’s premier 18-hole layout.
Co-designed by Fuzzy Zoeller and Clyde Johnston, the wooded course at Covered Bridge Golf Club first opened for play in 1994. Laid out on gently rolling terrain, the tree-lined fairways weave their way around a wandering creek and five lakes.
Designed in 1967 by Robert Simmons (former construction supervisor for Dick Wilson) when the facility was Lafayette Country Club, the course at Battle Ground Golf Club was renovated in the late 1990s by Tim Liddy.
Set on a generous 218-acre site, Purgatory Golf Club can play anything from 4,400 to 7,754 yards so it can be set up as the shortest or the longest 18-hole course in the Hoosier State. Golfers electing to play from the tips need to be on their game to avoid carding a round from hell.
Pete Dye routed the golf course at Chatham Hills round an 800-acre real estate development to the north of Westfield in Hamilton County, with the first tee shot struck in earnest two years after construction began in late 2014.
The Ackerman-Allen course at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex was known as the South course at Purdue University when Bill Diddel laid it out in 1934. Remodeled in the 1960s by Larry Packard and rebuilt by Pete Dye in 1997, the course staged the 1961 NCAA Men's Championships, won by Jack Nicklaus.
Opened for play in 1993, the course at Bear Slide Golf Club is an early 1990s Dean Refram design. The front nine is quite open, with water hazards on several of the holes, whilst the tree-lined back nine occupies more rolling terrain.
The fairways of the Tom Fazio-designed course at the Belterra Casino Resort lie on the flood plain of the Ohio River and the layout is ranked as one of the best casino golf courses in the country.
Host to the 1956 U.S Women’s Amateur, won by Canada’s Hall of Famer Marlene Stewart, Meridian Hills Country Club in Indianapolis was laid out by Bill Diddel in 1923 before being remodeled by a who’s who of architects from George Fazio and his nephew Tom, to Pete and Alice Dye and Bob Lohmann.
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Sagamore Resort’s Harbor Links course in Liberty is a 2002 P.B. Dye creation where four holes hug Brookville Lake’s shore. Rather than using trademark railroad ties, Dye used reclaimed concrete slabs from State Road 101 to fortify both green complexes and shoreline.
The rebranded Links at Heartland Crossing may be a play on words, but it’s the same Nick Price/Steve Smyers collaboration that debuted in 1998. Water comes into play at four holes but there’s plenty of sand around the course, with a wide variety of bunkers in all shapes and sizes.
The Arthur Hills-designed course at The Hawthorns Golf & Country Club is at the heart of a real estate development in the northeastern suburbs of Indianapolis. Routed across a generous 275-acre wooded site, the route has some quirk here and there, including a Cape-like hole at the par four 7th.
Tippecanoe Country Club is “Honoring the Legacy of a Proud Hoosier” by being one of seven layouts that (in a similar vein to Alabama’s RTJ Golf Trail) form Indiana’s less famous Pete Dye Golf Trail. Joseph Roseman first laid out the course on the shores of Lake Shafer in 1920 and Pete Dye remodeled the route in 1961.
