Victoria National

With ravines and almost as much deep water to negotiate as tumbling fairway, Victoria National is an exacting and spectacular test. It’s one of the most visually alluring courses in the USA and its tee to green conditioning is truly magnificent with greens and tees of bent grass and blended bluegrass making the rough not only very difficult from which to play, but also strikingly attractive.

Select your tee carefully, with six tee blocks to choose from, it could be either be a day of sheer enjoyment or a day of the watery golf ball grave.

Tom Fazio commented as follows in Golf Course Designs: “In 1997, we designed Victoria National in an abandoned strip mine near Evansville, Indiana. Trenches fifty to seventy feet deep had been dug, and tailings from the mine operation had been piled on the site leaving berms and mounds along with pits and deep ravines, the sort of terrain one would never expect to find in southern Indiana. Every hole had potentially a dramatic setting, and it would have been easy to make each one a ‘finishing hole.’ The hard thing was to make sure we didn’t.”