Indiana Golf Journal July 2022

The 14th at The Pfau Course The Pfau Course in Bloomington was designed by highly acclaimed architect Steve Smyers and two-time major championship winner, Fuzzy Zoeller. It was built on the same land as the old Indiana University Championship Golf Course. With a variety of tee boxes, the 14th can play anywhere from 268 yards to 459 yards. Smyers designed a sharp dogleg right with ten deep “eyebrow” bunkers, that guard the right side of the fairway. From the forward tees, it can play as a risk-reward drivable hole, but from the back tees, it’s a strong par four that begins with a daunting tee shot. The ten “eyebrow” bunkers on the 14th are only a small percentage of the 147 bunkers strewn throughout the entire course. The 15th at The Ackerman-Allen Course The Ackerman-Allen Course is part of the Birck-Boilermaker Golf Complex on the Purdue Campus in West Lafayette. The 15th is one of the strongest par fours in Indiana measuring over 400 yards from four of the five tee choices. It’s ranked the most difficult hole on this course and most golfers will require an up and down with a greenside chip to make par. Just finding this green in regulation is worthy of a fist-pump celebration.

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