Golfer's Guide Indiana Golf Courses Stories

FRENCH LICK - With the opening of the Pete Dye Course earlier this spring, French Lick Resort has quickly become one of America's most talked about golf destinations. The latest accolade comes from Golf Digest magazine, which ranked the historic resort No. 29 on its list of Top 75 Resorts.

This historic and elite golf destination is making its debut on the magazine's premier resort list in 2009. French Lick Resort now joins other historic resorts on the list such as Pinehurst, Sea Island, The Greenbrier, The Broadmoor, The Homestead, Pine Needles and Mid Pines and Pebble Beach.

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Golfers can become rather irascible when confronting the creations of legendary golf course architect Pete Dye, cursing their luck upon finding a ball buried in one of his pot bunkers or flipping a club after watching a shot splash land in the moat surrounding No. 17 at TPC Sawgrass.

But for all the fury and frustration Dye draws out of both hackers and professionals, we can’t help but love the man who’s provided us with so many wonderful places to play golf.

And there is no other spot on the planet where that love affair is more evident than the city of Indianapolis. Indy is to home remnants of Dye’s first design, the nine-hole El Dorado located just south of the city.