It's gimmicky but a gimmick worth checking out, though steep at more than $300 and for hotel guests only.Ī much better buy and not to be missed is the Donald Ross Course, which hosted the 1924 PGA Championship, won by Walter Hagen, and recently undertook a $5 million historic renovation. The Pete Dye Course at the French Lick Resort features cross hazards 300 yards from the tips to force long hitters to lay-up, and unique 'volcano bunkers,' mounds whose tops have been lopped off and filled with sand, so you can now play a bunker shot down to a fairway 20 feet below.

It is here that a passionate Pete Dye (an Indiana resident) decided to take a hard and fast stand against quickly changing golf club and ball technology, and the growing distance pros hit the ball, with this 8,100-yard assault on PGA Tour drives. When looking at Midwestern casino golf destinations, it is impossible to miss French Lick, Ind., home to pair of massive, joined-at-the-hip resort hotels that once hosted Al Capone and now are going all gangster on professional golfers.

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