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Named by Golf Magazine as the Best New Course in 2009, The Pete Dye Course hosted the Senior PGA Championship in 2015, and has also hosted the Big Ten Conference men's and women's championships. In 2021, the Senior LPGA Championship will again be contested at The Dye Course (August 23–29) while the Symetra Tour will return for The Donald Ross Classic (July 5–10) on the Ross Course. When it's time to pull the trigger on your next road trip, think French Lick for golf and gaming. Get started on booking your buddy trip by visiting www.frenchlick.com/golf. Golf has always been a key piece of the resort experience here, ever since Tom Bendelow designed the first course in the area (now Valley Links) in 1907. A few years later in 1917, the great Donald Ross designed a course that has stood the test of time. As part of the resort's mega-restoration, The Donald Ross Course at French Lick underwent a major restoration project that brought the course back to Ross' original genius plans. The site of the 1924 PGA Championship won by the legendary Walter Hagen, it is a parkland gem that meanders up and down the rolling hills a few miles from the main resort. The wonderful routing of the holes takes full advantage of the many elevation points for classic Ross green sites, which are sloped dramatically and in classic form from back to front. To complement the historic layouts, French Lick Resort brought in arguably the greatest modern-day golf course architect, the late Pete Dye, to design a new championship course. Dye's visually stunning masterpiece opened in 2009 and quickly became one of the most highly acclaimed courses in the country. The front nine builds excitement from hole to hole and peaks on No. 6. Then it continues to get more visually dramatic as the outward nine finishes back up toward the clubhouse with one of the best views on the course. The back nine offers the most dramatic stretch of holes from Nos. 11–14. This culminates with one of the course's signature holes, No. 14. Stretching nearly 600 yards from the back tees, this par-5 with a split fairway escalates from tee to green over a massive grass hollow that can intimidate even the elite players. World Class Golf Gaming 24/7 Sporting Clays Range Food & Drinks » » » »