With the PGA Tour in Dublin, Ohio at the Memorial our guide is the source for the better golf courses you can play in the Columbus area. There’s a number of good public access golf courses in the area such as Golf Club Dublin, Westchester, Delaware, Glenross, and New Albany links. Our pick for the best is the Denison Golf Club, 35 miles east.

The Denison Golf Club is set in the bucolic, college town of Granville, population 6,000. It’s located northeast of downtown Columbus set in the rolling hills of Central Ohio overlooking the village. Denison University is a small liberal arts college with 2,300 students with distinguished alumni which includes Woody Hayes, Michael Eisner, and Jennifer Garner among others.

The course is a Donald Ross classic layout which opened in 1925. It’s routing winds along tree lined fairways over varying degrees of elevation change, especially on the backside. The layout’s main defenses are the usual Ross design feature of crowned, quick, and undulating greens. They and the fairways are well defended by 63 deep faced sand bunkers in addition to six water features. The course is 6,559 yards from the tips, 71.2/130, course/slope ratings with three shorter tees. The course is not completely original as three holes were taken for a residential development and replaced with holes designed by Jack Kidwell and Mike Hurdzan. 

If Columbus is not your destination in Ohio, check out our guide here for the best public golf courses and resorts in Ohio. And, as always, please contact us here if we’re missing a worthy public course in our guide or one should be removed due to conditions and other factors. Help us keep this guide up to date! Cheers!