Ohio Golf Journal March

October 3-6 on the Pete Dye Course and will award 30 PGA Tour cards for the 2025 season. French Lick Resort is also planning to expand its golf by developing a totally new golf experience near the existing Valley Links Course. More details on that project will be released soon. In addition to the great golf at the Ross, Dye and Valley Links Courses, the training center has the latest technology and teaching professionals to improve any game. Plus, the practice facility at the Dye Course is second to none. Visitors to the West Baden Inn will be happy to know that the repair efforts for the hail damage to the roof is well underway. Contractors have been working feverishly to replace 12,000 square feet of glass panels that were destroyed last summer. The construction timeline remains on track and should be complete by late April. The first section is already finished and Trish Johnson on the Pete Dye Course. The Pete Dye Course has also hosted the BIG Ten Championship, the PGA Professional Championship and the Senior PGA Championship. In 2024, French Lick Resort enters a new era of professional golf as it will host the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance. Ronald D. Romain, United Leasing & Finance Executive Chairman said, “We are looking forward to our partnership with French Lick Resort and working with their team of great people. I am very pleased and excited for the new partnership with Steve Ferguson, Joseph Vezzoso and Dave Harner. The Pete Dye Course is a world-class venue and I am anxious to see how the Korn Ferry Tour players navigate their way around this difficult course.” The Korn Ferry Tour Championship will be held impossible to build. After some head scratching and scribbling on a napkin, he came up with a routing that created one of the most memorable layouts in the world. The views, atop the second highest hill in Indiana, stretch for 40 miles in every direction. In addition to a major championship, French Lick Resort has been hosting professional golf tournaments for several years. The French Lick Charity Classic was held 2017-2023 and featured the best young women golfers on the EPSON Tour. French Lick has always been a huge supporter of women’s professional golf and in 2017 they hosted the very first Senior LPGA Championship won by

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