Indiana Golf Journal April

with everything they want and need in the spring, summer and fall…..and the occasional warm day in the winter! In my booklet, The Top 10 of Hoosier Golf: Ten of Central & Southern Indiana’s Top Public Golf Destinations, I provide a detailed description of those ten designs which lie between Indianapolis and the Ohio River, which marks the state’s southern border. The booklet is posted on IndianaGolf. com: https://indianagolf.com/ golfsouthernindiana.pdf Those ten layouts -- not in any specific order – are Covered Bridge Golf Club (in Sellersburg), Champions Pointe Golf Club (Henryville), Chariot Run Golf Club (Laconia), Otter well-known figures in golf have either designed or redesigned these ten layouts. For instance, legendary golf course architect Donald Ross designed The Donald Ross Course in French Lick. The course opened in 1917 and hosted the 1924 PGA Championship and two LPGA Championships (1959 and 1960). The late, great Robert Trent Jones, Sr. designed the original 18 holes at Otter Creek Golf Course (Columbus), Legends Golf Club (Franklin), The Donald Ross Course (French Lick), The Pete Dye Course (French Lick), Sultan’s Run Golf Club (Jasper), The Fort Golf Resort (Indianapolis), and Brickyard Crossing (Indianapolis). There is a strong element of ‘star power’ affiliated with each of those ten courses as a few Indiana Golf Journal

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