![]() Multiple water hazards combine with dense native grasses to offer an unrelenting test. Louis is this rustic enclave where you’re as likely to encounter deer and turkeys as fellow golfers. For six years it hosted a Champions Tour event, won twice by Missouri native Hale Irwin, who was later tapped to remodel several greens. Host of the 1971 Ryder Cup won by an American team that included Nicklaus, Palmer, and Trevino, this Trent Jones design is famed for its 14th hole, a lake-leaping par four included among GOLF Magazine’s 500 Best Holes in the World. Part of the Big Cedar Lodge resort, it underwent a Tom Fazio revamp a few years ago. The new layout, etched into dramatic Ozark terrain, brings water in play on half the holes-along with a herd of free-ranging buffalo from a nearby nature park.Ĭountry Club of St. Albans is a private residential community on the outskirts of St. Louis that boasts the best 36-hole golf facility in the state. This Weiskopf/Morrish design winds through 100-year-old woods and several natural creeks. ![]() The toughest course in the state is this one from the back tees because they measure a whopping 8,154 yards (rating 78.8/slope 149). Happily, eight other sets of markers are available on this 1993 design by local architect Gary Kern. Just a short drive from the “live music capital of the world,” Branson Hills nestles peacefully into the Ozark countryside. The first tee shot, dropping 150 feet, sets the tone for a course where elevation change is constant and level lies are rare.Ĭountry Club of St. Twelve of the 18 holes play across or beside streams, creeks, and ponds on this picturesque Hurdzan/Fry course set dramatically in the Missouri River Valley.As Ben Crenshaw once said, famously and prophetically, “Mark my words.” I’m going to use that very phrase by way of predicting that in the next couple of years, you – if you’re someone who likes to travel for new golf adventures – will be going to Branson, Missouri. You may have heard of Branson before, as had I, but only in the context of it being the somewhat proletarian, down-home centre of country and middle-American entertainment - much of it from ageless entertainers like Dolly Parton, Johnny Mathis, and the late Andy Williams.
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