FRENCH LICK, Ind. (WDRB) -- A fourth golf course is coming to the French Lick Resort this fall.
In a news release, the resort said the Sand Creek Course will feature nine holes ranging between 35 and 90 yards.
Golfers can expect to complete the course in about 75 minutes. Clubs and balls will be provided with the greens fee, and guests may use their own clubs if they wish.
Next year, the course will be lit for play after dark, and there will be music piped-in.
The new course is next to the Valley Links course and driving range and will be open year-round, weather permitting.
Russ Apple and Brett Fleck, the head superintendents at French Lick’s Dye and Ross courses, are designing and building the new Sand Creek layout borrowing features from the resort’s two championship courses.
The resort's director of golf, Dave Horner said, "It’s going to have a few miniature versions of the Dye volcano bunkers, and some of the Ross greens contours. The rock formation that we use around the lakes at Dye we’re using around the water retention area here.”
French Lick Resort's CEO Chuck Franz said in the release that the Pete Dye, Donald Ross and Valley Links courses have seen record numbers of rounds the last few years, so it's time to add another course.
He also says it revives a piece of French Lick's past -- a short course existed at the resort in the early 1900s.
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