Love love love this course. One of our favorites. The improvements they make every year says alot about the owners that put back into the course. I can honestly say they don’t charge enough. The course itself plays true. Beautiful fairways. Great dog legs. Challenging fast greens. Just what we love.
5 months ago
Awesome course in great shape given the drought conditions. Family run and they put $$$ into the place. Keep up the great job. Hidden gem in NW central Ohio. Worth the drive from Columbus or Dayton.
a year ago
Have played this course 6 or so times this year. It's a fun layout, course is in great shape considering dry weather. Owner has made some worthy investments into aprons on the greens and cart paths.
The greens are usually great shape, not that it matters because chances are your ball won't stay on them. As others have mentioned, greens are much faster than is typical, borderline unfair, for this caliber of course. You MUST leave the ball below the hole in most instances.
Getting up and down requires an exceptional short game. Most the greens have a ton of slope, might not be fun for some golfers to watch a short putt roll off the green. I would enjoy the course much more if the greens were just a bit more fair. I enjoy a challenge but the penalty for missing the green or even just being on the wrong side of the hole takes some fun out. Would love to see the greens cut just a tad longer to make them more playable.
5 months ago
I have played here for 55 years, living in Dayton and currently Columbus. I pass many courses on my way to this one and it will always hold a place in my heart. Mike has done wonderful things with this course and the staff, no matter what time it is is always friendly. There's not a better deal for the money in all the state. Thank you for only making changes for the better. The ball is circa 1978, hole #16 hole in one. Haven't seen once since~
5 months ago
Played in June 2024 for first time. Really impressed with how well manicured the course is. It felt like country club conditions at a public course - which you don’t see that often. It was wet and drizzled most of my round, so that softened conditions some, but the greens were still true, and fairly fast all things considered. My guess is they can really get them fast on dry days when they want to. Fairways, tee boxes, and bunkers also were very well manicured as well.
Course itself is pretty straightforward, and isn’t super long. There are a few holes with doglegs, or water, but nothing crazy. It does have a lot of elevation changes, thanks to the location in the hills. A few of the holes are really cool because of how they make their way up/down the elevation changes. It honestly reminds me of courses in the eastern part of the state. The undulation of the course is what gives it character. It’s a change of pace from the relatively flat course in NW Ohio. The greens basically all slope back to front, and so the play is to miss short when possible.
I thought the stretch of 11-14 was the best. 11-13 are all par 4’s thru the hills that also has a creek in play, and 14 is probably the signature hole? It’s a shorter par 5, but the second shot is all cart as there’s a pond in front.
All in all - the conditions are what make the course. I was truly impressed, and it made me the round fun and worthwhile.
a year ago
