Indianapolis

Accommodations:

Residence Inn by Marriott

Location:

Brickyard Crossing
What a place to play golf … inside the Indianapolis Speedway. Eddie Rickenbacker hired Bill Diddel to create a golf course at the Speedway in 1929. Now the past is back with 18 holes of Pete Dye mastery. Ranked #6 in the state by Golf Digest, this former home to the Senior PGA Tour’s Brickyard Crossing Championship features 14 holes outside the confines of the Speedway and 4 holes in the infield. The course features mounded fairways and Little Eagle Creek come into play on eight holes, and a pond comes into play on hole #11, a 346-yard, par 4. After the first six holes, you move inside the Speedway for four holes. # 7 gives you a panoramic view of the course, the speedway and the city of Indianapolis in the distance. #18 has you headed to the green with the historic barn in the background. The round of golf will be memorable.
 

Eagle Creek Golf Club
This facility will be celebrating the opening of a new nine on June 29th, 2001 to make it 36 holes of Pete Dye challenges. The new nine will combine with the back nine of the old Championship Course, which was home to the 1992 USGA National Public Links Championship. This 18 will be called The Sycamore. You can count on natural, hilly terrain with tight tree-lined fairways with a traditional links-style flavor for the new holes. The other 18 will be called The Pines and will incorporate the improved old West Nine and the Front Nine of the old Championship Course. The old West course has narrow fairways, but they are not tree lined. The greens are large and fast. The terrain is flat and no water comes into play on this nine. Water will, however, come into play on the old Championship nine.

The Legends of Indiana Golf Course
Designed by Jim Fazio in 1992 the first 18 holes played in the comination of the Creek and Middle Nines and the Road Nine was added in 1996. This 27-hole facility uses the 3 nine-hole courses in three eighteen-hole combinations. The courses are best described as being part link-style and part Southern-style designs. 250 additional pine trees were planted in 1997 to enhance the scenery and provide more obstacles. When your ball lands next to one, you’ll wish you had a chain saw. The course features three lakes and five creeks make this a watery track as well. Out of the 27 holes, you will see a water hazard on 20 of them. The bunkers are also unusual because they use crushed limestone in the 135 traps.

Golf Club of Indiana
Nestled on 175 wooded acres in southern Boone County near the picturesque town of Zionsville, The Golf Club of Indiana is just 20 minutes from Indianapolis International Airport and the Monument Circle in the heart of Indianapolis. The Golf Club of Indiana has been honored by Golf Digest as one of America's Top 75 Daily Fee Golf Courses. Each Year, The Golf Club of Indiana hosts The Classic, an event that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for numerous charitable organizations. The Classic has featured such stars as Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Gary Player, Fuzzy Zoeller, Dave Stockton, Jim Gallagher, Jr. and Lanny Wadkins. Designed by Mickey Powell and Charles Maddox in 1974, The Golf Club of Indiana is worthy of the attention it has received. Its gently rolling terrain, large undulating greens, and many mature trees make The Golf Club of Indiana a beautiful place to play. Water on 15 holes, 72 bunkers (same as par) and championship tees of more than 7,000 yards make the course as challenging as it is appealing.

Prairie View Golf Club
Located on 206 acres in Hamilton County, this Robert Trent Jones, Jr. masterpiece is Indiana's premier daily fee facility. This world-renowned architect blended 18 holes of traditional golf design into the natural beauty created by the rolling prairie and towering oaks and sycamores that characterize the site on the banks of the White River. The course features a clear running stream that meanders through four holes, natural wetlands, and five serene lakes placed strategically throughout the course serve to complete a truly unique playing experience. In creating his first course in Indiana, Jones has made sure golfers of all abilities enjoy their round at Prairie View. Ninety white sand bunkers sprinkled throughout the course, lakes, wide, bent grass fairways all provide a challenge regardless of which of the four available tees you select.

The Fort Golf Course
Ranked he 3rd Best New Affordable Public Course in 1998 and the 7th Best in the State by Golf Digest, this track is virtual gift to the area by Pete Dye. He took the old Fort Benjamin Harrison military course, donated his time and brought in associate Tim Liddy to assist on the job. They used existing fairway corridors, like one for the double-dogleg, 547-yard 11th with a fairway that cants this way, then that way and created dramatic new ones, like the 474-yard par 4 18th, over a gully to a rolling fairway and perched green, land that was previously a driving range. Small streams come into play on 3 holes and the medium-sized greens are elevated, undulating and fast.

Bear Slide Golf Club
This 1989 Dean Refram design has two different personalities. The front nine has a link-style feel on flat terrain and the back nine is more traditional with hill dogleg fairways. The course has three ponds that are all encased by stone walls and a creek that comes into play on six holes. The signature hole is the 16th, a 188-yard par 3 that requires a shot to an island green. Ranked 10th in the state by Golf Digest, Bear Slide features slightly sloped, undulating and fast greens well protected by sand bunkers. The finishing hole is a 449-yard par 4 that has an amphitheater around and above the elevated double-tiered green. Get a birdie on this beast and the crowds will go wild.