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    French Lick Resort: Donald Ross Course

    French Lick, IN Public

    Overview

    If the 2009 Pete Dye course at this historic resort in southern Indiana (ranked no. 118 on America's Second 100 Greatest Courses) is an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame along the site's elevated bluffs, the 1917 Donald Ross course is more of a street-level tilt-a-whirl with holes that rise, fall and roll repeatedly over a gorgous meadow property. Each nine crests over ridges and ride into hollows, rising toward well-bunkered greens that flank slightly crowned putting surfaces. This is an Old World/New World contrast, with both the Dye and Ross courses achieving what they set out to do architecturally, but in rather different ways. Depending on their mood and appreciation for allowing land movements rather than bulldozers to dictate design and direction, golfer's at French Lick often prefer the nuance and nature of the Ross course.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 7030
    Slope 135
    Price $135
    Facility Type Public
    Designer Donald J. Ross, ASGCA/Thomas Bendelow/Sandy Alves/(R) Lee Schmidt, ASGCA

    Awards

    100 Greatest Public
    Best Courses in Every State

    100 Greatest Public: Ranked from 2011-'20. Highest ranking: No. 83, 2015-'16.

    Best in State: Ranked fifth, 2019-'20. Ranked sixth, 2013-'18, 2023-'24. Ranked seventh, 2011-'12, 2021-'22.

    Current ranking: Sixth.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    3.6

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    6.8996
    Character
    6.9545
    Challenge
    6.9934
    Layout Variety
    6.7791
    Fun
    6.914
    Aesthetics
    6.7596
    Conditioning
    6.6523

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