Ho, Ho, Ho! It’s only appropriate that we focus on the Christmas Lake Golf Club in Santa Claus, Indiana in our December issue. Golf media agree that Christmas Lake Golf Club is a great place to play. Golf Digest ranked it as one of the Top 75 Public Golf Courses in America and Indiana Business Magazine listed it as the 7th Most Challenging in Indiana. This course is so well-respected that it is a qualifying site for the Indiana Open. Christmas Lake Golf Club, designed by Edmund Ault, opened for play in 1967. Ault also created the well-known Tournament Players Course at Avenal in Potomac, Maryland, as well as, a re-design of Congressional Country Club, which has hosted three U.S. Opens, one PGA Championship, plus one U.S. Senior Open. The Christmas Lake Golf Club has tree-lined fairways, rolling hills, valleys, and a few sparkling lakes. The tees and fairways are planted with Zoysia grass, with bent grass greens. According to Todd Grundhoefer, the general partner at Christmas Lake Golf Club, the course never disappoints as the front nine and back nine have their own identities. “With the outward half cut through the wildlifefilled forests of the southern Indiana hills, the inward nine flattens out a bit and winds through the beautiful homes of Christmas Lake Village. Christmas Lake Golf Club: A Hoosier Original By Mike May Indiana Golf Journal
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