![]() ![]() The hole is protected by a bunch of bunkers in different driving zones, but overall the hole is pretty easy. The hole is downhill and when I played, downwind (which enabled a rare 300 yard drive from me). If you lost your confidence over the front 9, hole 10 is a good place to get it back. There are bunkers left and right in the driving zone, left sharing a bunker complex with 16. The hole drops 80ft from tee to fairway, then rises again to the green. And yes, like every other elevated tee I’ve reviewed (see Boulder Creek and Paa-Ko Ridge), I implore you to hit one from the tips. Also, you realize you go up and down the valley a few times you’ll be thankful for the cart. A long and hilly cart-ride up to the par 4 third won’t be your only cart-ride of the day. The reward isn’t quite worth the risk for me.Īfter hole 2, you realize why you need a cart. There’s trouble left and right in the landing zone, and the green slopes sharply downhill off the back. The 2nd hole is an odd place in the round for a short par 4, and really the only hole like it on the course. ![]() The par 5 1st gives the player a first glance at the artistic bunkering style at Old Silo. Old Silo is very much a cart-only course, those the first two holes wouldn’t tell you that. Only a couple of holes are adjacent to the highway, and they do a pretty good job of disguising it. So it’s not in the most densely populated of areas, but the same could be said about a lot of Kentucky’s best public golf courses. Located next to I-64, the course is about a half-hour from Lexington, KY. Sterling, KY is the first North American design by Graham Marsh (who would go on to design the well-acclaimed Sutton Bay). Unfortunately, things have gone very downhill for this course. ![]() Enjoy this post for the memories.ĭisclaimer: My review of Old Silo is my reflection of the course as it was in September 2005. May 2017 Disclaimer: It appears the final nail in the Old Silo coffin has been hammered in. ![]()
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