Indiana Golf News

As the days grow longer and winter finally relinquishes its grasp on the Midwest, golfers can finally take to the links again to renew their favorite pursuit. Players searching for an affordable round on a great golf course located in a secluded woodland setting unbounded by residential dwellings should look no further than Killbuck Golf Club when hunting for an ideal experience this spring.

Killbuck Golf Club, which gets its name from the creek that runs through the course, was originally owned by automobile giant General Motors but has since been purchased and is currently operated by a local family.

The Anderson layout, located a short drive from Indianapolis, is a world away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The Club originally opened in 1968 and shared the location with an adjacent park that housed miniature golf, amusement rides and picnic areas. Now it’s just about golf at Killbuck.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Some of golf’s most influential leaders and members of the game’s most prominent associations converged on the nation’s capitol to celebrate a bipartisan Congressional resolution which declared April 16, 2008 as National Golf Day.

The golf leaders discussed the game’s impact on society, in particular its role to the U.S. economy.

The golf industry is the sports and entertainment worlds’ largest contributor to our economy, generating $76 billion in direct economic impact according to a recent study, the 2005 Golf Economy Report, commissioned by World Golf Foundation’s GOLF 20/20 initiative completed earlier this year and released at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla. 

Brickyard Crossing Golf Course, a fascinatingly unique layout that actually takes golfers insde the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval during their round, opened for play Tuesday, March 25.

The driving range and Golf Academy are also open for practice and lessons, PGA Head Professional Jeff Schroeder said

INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis Colts’ owner Jim Irsay, who fielded the team that won the Super Bowl in 2007, is making his mark in women’s professional golf with a sponsorship of Becky Lucidi, an LPGA tour player who achieved fully exempt status this year.

“Becky embodies all the attributes that we look for in players for our organization...strong character, tremendous work ethic and God-given talent,” Irsay said in announcing the sponsorship.

Win a VIP 4-some from Killbuck Golf Club

You have a change to win:

• 4 rounds of golf with cart,

• Lunch (hot dog, chips & soda)and

• a bucket of range balls.

Visit their website for more details!
http://www.killbuckgolf.com/content.php?link=contest_entry2007.php

Plymouth, IN - The United States Golf Academy at Swan Lake Resort in Plymouth, IN, is extending an invitation to PGA Golf Professionals and their guests at courses and clubs in Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan this winter to experience and teach at thir new state of the art indoor teaching facilities. This is a great opportunity for PGA Members to bring their guests or members of their clubs and get a head start on the 2007 season with instruction and practice.

PGA Members and guests who attend will have the opportunity to experience a new, 7,000 square-foot teaching building with heated, indoor/outdoor bays allowing teaching in the winter.

How do you compete with the “Big Boys” of the golf equipment industry, who have many years head start in marketing and manufacturing, not to mention deep, deep pockets to fund their ventures? Two veterans of the front lines of the golf industry wars, Richard Merk and Bret Larsen are trying to do it in a revolutionary way, one club at a time, one charity tournament at a time with their launch of Upswing Golf early this year. Merk, a former member of the senior executive teams at TaylorMade and then Callaway, and Larsen, a former VP of Manufacturing and then Golf Club Development at Callaway, have come together to try to bring the “average” golfer access to top quality equipment without the expense the “brand name” companies tack on to their clubs for marketing, advertising and endorsements. 

That shrieking you Hoosier golf fans are liable to hear the weekend after Labor Day is either from a surprising and surprisingly young American women’s Solheim Cup team, or maybe from Annika Sorenstam, as the greatest player in the game personally keps the trophy in the hands of her European comrades. One thing’s for certain. It’ll be a noisy weekend at Crooked Stick in Carmel, just outside Indianapolis.

The Solheim Cup is great theatre, arguably better entertainment than the men’s version of trans-Atlantic team play, the Ryder Cup. And far more unpredictable. Until they prove otherwise, American men have become chronic under-achievers against their International counterparts.

If you’re in Indianapolis for the Solheim Cup, or frankly for any reason this season, there’s much to do outside of playing golf or cheering on the Solheim Cuppers.

You’re well aware of the world-famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway (whose museums open year-round just a driver-and-a-wedge from the Brickyard Crossing Golf Course). Besides the pro sports teams, the Colts and Pacers, there are horses of a different breed to watch from early September through late November at Hoosier Park in Anderson. For more information, visit www.hoosierpark.com.

Indianapolis has often touted itself as the amateur sports capital of the country. Its now home of the NCAA’s Hall of Champions, an incredible multi-media extravaganza that brings together more of the stories, and the memorabilia, of college sports under one roof than anywhere else in the country.