Golfer's Guide Indiana Golf Courses Stories

The award-winning French Lick Resort has once again earned national recognition from one of the country's leading golf publications.

The latest accolade comes from Golfweek magazine, which included both of the resort's courses among its prestigious annual ranking of Best Resort Courses. The new Pete Dye course, which opened this year, is ranked No. 27, and the 92-year-old Donald Ross course checks in at No.71, according to the magazine's course raters.

The newest and most reliable online marketplace for purchasing discounted rounds of golf provides golfers the opportunity to play more and pay less.

TeeTimeSavings.com, formerly GolfUS.com, has officially launched its easy-to-use and informative Web site that features a comprehensive catalog of premier courses in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio where golfers in those areas can buy rounds of golf at special prices. More than 200 courses are currently featured on the site, which will expand quickly to add new courses and resorts in even more areas throughout the country.

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.