8670 W State Road 56 French Lick, IN 47432 |
812-936-9300 http://www.frenchlick.com |
Price to Play $200+ |
French Lick Resort is a classic, four season resort hotel in southwest Indiana's hills with a casino and two 18 hole layouts and a nine hole short course.
The original layout was designed by Donald Ross in 1917 and was the venue for the 1924 PGA Championship (Walter Hagen). The course was restored several years ago with an emphasis to maintaining most of the Ross features. The layout is in a clearing in the woods and features a links-style, open design along fescue lined fairways with deep green-side bunkers and severely undulating, square or rectangular greens. There's 80 sand bunkers strategically positioned through the fairways and greens now expanded to their original shape with flat bottoms and deep faces. The course plays to 7,030 yards from the tips, par 70, 72.3/135, course/slope ratings with three shorter tees.
The Pete Dye layout climbs over one of Indiana’s highest elevation points along narrow and broad, mounded fairways lined with fescue, sand bunkers, and lakes and provides forty mile views of the Indiana countryside. It's a full 8,100 yards from the tips, 80.0/148, course/slope ratings, but with a total of five sets of tees, the middle tees are 6,115 yards, 70.6/130 course/slope.
Valley Links is a 9 hole family layout whittled down from a 1930s Tom Bendelow design and a par of 36. It's a most playable parkland course routed along the valley and Sand Creek with a modest amount of sand bunkers and modest greens.