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    Keene Trace Golf Club: Champion Trace

    Nicholasville, KY Private

    Overview

    The Champion Trace course at Keene Trace has ranked inside the top five in Kentucky in most of our rankings since the Arthur Hills course opened in the late 1980s. Routed on the rolling hills you'd expect on the site of a former horse farm, Champion Trace hosted the 1993 NCAA Championship and the 1994 U.S. Senior Amateur—and after new ownership took over the property in 2015, the course underwent some significant improvements ahead of hosting the PGA Tour's Barbasol Championship for the first time in 2018.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 7117
    Slope 137
    Facility Type Private
    Year Opened 1987
    Designer Arthur Hills, ASGCA

    Awards

    Best Courses in Every State

    Ranking history:

    Best in State: Ranked fourth, 2021-'22. Ranked fifth, 2011-'12, 2015-'16, 2019-'20, 2023-'24. Ranked inside the top 5, 1989-2010. Ranked sixth, 2013-'14. Ranked eighth, 2017-'18.
    2023-'24 ranking: 5th.
    Previous ranking: 4th.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

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

    3.9

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    6.7016
    Character
    6.6142
    Challenge
    6.7554
    Layout Variety
    6.7518
    Fun
    6.9212
    Aesthetics
    6.4921
    Conditioning
    6.8481

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