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Shelbyville, KY

Ryan's Course

3.675(based on 6 reviews)
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wolfhaley
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3.00 star(s)

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 18, 2024 Played the course:once

Pros:

This is a good course for the folks with big arms. Lots of long open bomber shots that reward distance. Even the wooded holes have some length to them while remaining tight.

The baskets are Innova Discatchers. These are all in good shape and catch great. One basket and pin placement per hole.

The design is pretty solid here. They do a great job of splitting it pretty evenly between wooded and open holes and maintaining the distance they were aiming for. The space available for the course is all tucked along the river in the south and west sides of the park. Very simple flow throughout and good signage for the couple longer transitions. You'll be able to navigate this one fairly easily. There's some staked off areas of OB which adds to the challenge and punishes errant shots.

Nice large concrete tee pads on every these. These are great, especially for the longer lengths of the holes here. All are level and grippy. Perfect. One tee pad per hole.

Solid tee signs. Basic hole map with next tee arrow and any applicable OB. There's also the hole #, par and distance.

Cons:

This course isn't going to appeal to most players due to it's length. It's a pretty grueling round if you don't throw far and there's only a couple benches on the whole course. Just know this going in.

The rough was down during our round in mid April but that prairie grass lining the fairways on the first several holes looks like it'll be a nightmare in the summer. These are my least favorite types of holes so I'm glad I didn't have to experience that.

The rough off the fairways on some of the wooded holes isn't much better. Thick, thick, thick. Basically you don't want to end up off the fairway anywhere on this course.

No short tees and only one pin placement. Even if the short were only natural it'd still appeal to a wider range of players.

The fairways on the open holes were kind of lumpy and rutted in spots. Between that and the length of the fairway grass it makes it really difficult trying to do any kind of run up.

Other Thoughts:

This course does a lot of thing right but there's just enough annoying aspects that it's hard to give this one too high of a rating. It's definitely worth a visit if you're nearby. Moreso if you can throw 400' plus. For mere mortals it's going to be tough. Fun, but tough and probably frustrating. There's not too many other options in the general vicinity though, so it's definitely nice to have something here. Worth a visit at least once.
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