The French Lick Resort has been serving travelers since 1845. When the West Baden Inn was completed in 1902, with its free-span dome that extends 200-feet above the floor, it was considered the 8th wonder of the world. French Lick Resort has been the winter home of a traveling circus, the Chicago Cubs held spring training at the resort There are no golf resorts in the country that can boast courses designed by Tom Bendelow, Donald Ross and Pete Dye. Bendelow designed the nineholeValley Links Course in 1907. The Donald Ross Course opened for play in 1917 and hosted the 1924 PGA Championship, won by the great Walter Hagen. When Pete Dye first viewed the hilly terrain allotted for a golf course, he thought it would be French Lick Resort: One Of A Kind Golf & Vacation Destination before they won the 1908 World Series and the 1924 PGA Championship was held on the Donald Ross Course. Through time, this National Historical Landmark has also been a Jesuit Seminary and U.S. Army Hospital, as well as a private college. Yes, French Lick has a rich and storied past, but its present is pretty amazing, as well. Indiana Golf Journal
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