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Big Cedar Lodge: Buffalo Ridge

Hollister, MO Public

Overview

This Tom Fazio design was the first course built at what is now Big Cedar Lodge, the ever-expandning recreational resort in southern Missouri from Bass Pro Shop founder Johnny Morris. Typical of Team Fazio, the design is strong on visual flair, with long views of the surrounding Ozarks as backdrops for holes cut through the site's exposed limestone outcroppings. The first nine is more up and down, situated on a higher section of land, and the second nine loops around the perimeter of a bluff that shows off the surrounding ridges and ravines. Networks of burbling artificial streams and rocky waterscapes accompany golfers around the course, leading to a big fiive-hole finish that starts at the par-5 14th playing through a valley toward a green set on a bluff above a section of creek.

About

Holes 18
Length 7036
Slope 130
Price $175
Facility Type Public
Year Opened 1999
Designer Thomas Fazio, ASGCA

Awards

100 Greatest Public
Best Courses in Every State

100 Greatest Public: Ranked from 2003-'10, 2015-'16, 2023-'24.

Highest ranking: No. 59, 2005-'06.

Previous ranking: Not ranked 2017-'22.

Current ranking: 92nd.

Best in State: Ranked inside the top five, 2001-'03. Ranked eighth, 2015-'18. Ranked ninth, 2011-'12, 2019-'24. Ranked 10th, 2013-'14. Ranked inside the top 10 since 2005.

Current ranking: Ninth.

Panelists

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

4

100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

Shot Options
6.9315
Character
6.8973
Challenge
6.9176
Layout Variety
6.9774
Fun
7.0132
Aesthetics
7.1481
Conditioning
6.8102

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