Victoria National Golf Club

Victoria National Golf Club

2000 Victoria National Blvd

Newburgh, IN 47630-8488

United States

Overview

Built atop Peabody Coal Company’s long-abandoned Victoria strip mine in southern Indiana, Victoria National was a simple routing for Tom Fazio. He just followed the corridors (the perfect width for fairways) that existed between mining spoil mounds (long since overgrown with trees) and some 40 acres of fingery lagoons that had formed as steam shovels carving out coal deposits hit the water table. Chosen as Best New Private Course of 1999, Victoria National stunned most panelists. One gushed it was, “the most unusual, unpolished and unpretentious Fazio design ever.” Another called it, “probably the hardest Fazio course I’ve played. More penal than Pine Valley.” Fazio concurred with that assessment. “It’s U.S. Open-quality now,” he said soon after it opened. “If the wind blew, it’d be too hard.”

About

Holes 18
Length 7242
Slope 152
Facility Type Private
Year Opened 1999
Designer Thomas Fazio, ASGCA

Awards

100 Greatest
Best Courses in Every State

Ranking history:

100 Greatest: Ranked since 2001.
Highest ranking:
21st, 2005-'06.
Previous ranking: 53rd.
2025-'26 ranking: 60th.

Best in State: Ranked first since 2001.
2025-'26 ranking: 1st.

Golf Digest Logo Panelists

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

4.6

100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

Shot Options
7.6603
Character
7.6175
Challenge
8.1249
Layout Variety
7.7047
Fun
7.1284
Aesthetics
7.7336
Conditioning
7.6227

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