The Trophy Club, Lebanon, IN – A familiar, linksy jewel of a course

In 2016, our annual Guys’ Golf Trip took us to the greater Indianapolis metro to explore the best public courses in the area. Indy is well-known for its many memorable Pete Dye-designed golf courses, but it was a course constructed by Dye understudy, Tim Liddy, ASGCA, that perhaps made the most lasting impression. The Trophy…

Belterra Casino Golf Course, Florence, Indiana – A really great, manufactured golf experience

On the Indiana side of the flat lands of the Ohio River valley between Louisville and Cincinnati, Tom Fazio crafted a really nice, fairly challenging golf course to accompany the Belterra Casino. Nestled in the river’s flood plain, it’s evident from the first tee that thousands of tons of earth were moved to craft this…