The best golf courses in Indiana for 2024-25

As part of GOLF’s rigorous assessment process for our newcomers Top 100 courses in the USA AND The best 100 courses you can play ranking, our fleet of 100-plus expert panelists identified the best golf courses in each state.

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Best Golf Courses in Indiana (2024/2025)

SYMBOL GUIDE
# = Top 100 courses in the USA
Y = Top 100 you can play in USA
V = The 100 most valuable courses in the USA
P = Public/Resort

Ed. Note: Some subjects were removed from our ranking because they did not receive enough votes.

1. Crooked Stick GC (Carmel)

2. Victoria National (Newburgh)

3. French Lick Resort – Donald Ross Course (French Lick) (P, V, Y)

To say both the property and the greens are rolling is an understatement! Whatever notions you may have about Donald Ross’ greens will be blown out of the water by a tour of this 1917 design, which was deemed such a good test that it soon hosted the 1924 PGA Championship. The 8th green, with its six-foot back-to-front drop, gets most of the attention, but a green like the 17th that drops more than three feet from its high plateau right to a The lower left is equally surprising. Three of the par-3s are 240, 250 and 250 yards and may make up Ross’ sharpest collection of one-shot putters.

4. French Lick Resort – Pete Dye Course (French Lick) (P, V, Y)

5. Warren Golf Course (Notre Dame) (P, Y)

6. Broadmoor CC (Indianapolis)

7. Pfau Course at Indiana University (Bloomington) (P, V, Y)

A bright spot for Midwest golfers last year came in the form of this course opening on IU’s Bloomington campus. Raving reviews quickly followed for a design that features tree-lined avenues in the more secluded front and an open feel in the rear. Named after a major donor to the project, the course may stretch to 7,908 yards (leave that to the college team!), but every green except the 18th accepts tee shots. There are nearly 150 bunkers — the sharp, right-footed 14th, the shortest par-4 on the course, there are 10 just on the right side of the fairway — but architect Steve Smyers gives you a sand-free par-4 break and the 6th.

8. Sycamore Hills GC (Fort Wayne)

9. Brickyard Pass (Indianapolis) (P)

10. Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex, Kampen Course (P)

***Some of our panelists consider the best course in the Hoosier State to be the 9-hole Culver Academies.

How we rank our courses

For our newly released US Top 100 and Top 100 Playable lists—a process that helped us create the top 50 rankings in the country—each panelist was given a ballot consisting of 609 courses. . Alongside the list of courses were 11 “buckets” or groupings. If our panelists deemed a course to be among the top three in the US, they marked the first column. If they believed the rate was between numbers 4-10, they checked that column, followed by 11-25, 26-50 and so on up to 250+ and even a column for “remove”. Panelists were also free to write in courses they felt should have been included on the ballot.

Points were assigned to each bucket; to arrive at an average score for each course, we divide its overall score by the number of votes. From these point totals, courses are then ranked accordingly. It’s an intentionally simple and straightforward process. Why? Because it has historically produced results that are widely praised. Like the game itself, there’s no need to overcomplicate things or try to fix something that already works so well.

The key to the process is the experience and expertise of our panel. Hailing from 15 nations and all the golfing meccas around the world, each of our 127 hand-picked panelists has a keen eye for architecture, both regionally and globally. Many of our panelists have played more than 1000 courses in over 20 countries, some over 2000. Their handicaps range from +5 to +15.

Because the nature of course evaluation is so intensely subjective, no opinion counts. The only way, then, to build meaningful consensus is to incorporate this diversity of panelists and experiences into a ranking.

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