There’s so many recent lists of the most expensive rounds of golf in the United States like from Links Magazine, Bleacher Report, or the venerable Golf Magazine, yet none of which seem to have noticed Canyata. It may be because it’s certainly not in a high profile resort location, but in east central Illinois 20 miles west of Terre Haute, Indiana.

Canyata is an exclusive, private club completed in 2004 by the Forsythe Family with Gerald Forsyth the patriarch. The land is former farmland that’s been in the family for 150 years. Mr. Forsythe is known throughout Illinois and the Midwest as a philanthropist and entrepreneur as owner of the industrial Indeck Group as well as investments in sports and entertainment including another golf course in Illinois.

The course generates loads of superlatives for those who have been fortunate enough to play there: world class, amazing, immaculate, impeccable, perfect, luxurious. It will set you back $850 to play 36 holes, but that does include lunch and free range balls! The layout is classic parkland over rolling terrain of pastures, hardwood corridors, and along streams and ravines with bent grass from tee to green. The fairways average 50 yards in width, the greens 7,000 square feet, and mounding has created totally isolated and unique holes. It’s a challenging golf course with numerous tee boxes, the Blue tees play to 6,094 yards, 70.2/142, course/slope ratings, designed by Michael Benkusky.