French Lick Resort - Donald Ross Course

Set on a windswept ridge outside the town of French Lick, the Donald Ross Course (historically the “Hill Course”) is the resort’s classic, public-access championship venue. It plays today as a par 70 over 7,030 yards from the back tees, with a practice range, short-game areas, and a hillside clubhouse that looks across an open, largely treeless interior. The walk is substantial—holes rise, fall, and roll over long views—but the routing keeps green-to-tee links tight. The playing identity is defined by boldly contoured greens and by a restored bunker scheme that now reasserts central and diagonal hazards in the fairways. Golfers encounter a set of long one-shot holes across valleys and ravines and a skyline approach to the home green that frames the hotel in the distance. The course is part of the French Lick Resort portfolio and welcomes resort guests and daily-fee play; the resort’s tournament calendar continues to honor the Hill Course’s major-championship heritage while rotating modern professional and collegiate events across the property.