Purgatory Golf Club
About
Spread across 218 acres, the Ron Kern-designed Purgatory Golf Club is the longest par-72 course east of the Mississippi River. Nevertheless, the course is set up to be enjoyed by all, with six different sets of tees ranging from more than 7,700 yards all the way down to just under 4,600 yards. Bunkering is one of the club's defining features, with more than 130 coming into play. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the par-3 17th, where eight massive bunkers almost completely surround the putting surface.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purgatory | 72 | 7754 yards | 78.1 | 142 |
| Black | 72 | 7268 yards | 76.1 | 137 |
| Blue | 72 | 6796 yards | 73.8 | 131 |
| White | 72 | 6422 yards | 72.0 | 128 |
| Green | 72 | 5683 yards | 68.5 | 121 |
| Green (W) | 72 | 5683 yards | 73.4 | 126 |
| Yellow (W) | 72 | 4562 yards | 66.9 | 115 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purgatory M: 78.3/148 | 373 | 462 | 197 | 473 | 551 | 434 | 231 | 487 | 579 | 3787 | 473 | 406 | 235 | 741 | 469 | 453 | 474 | 173 | 543 | 3967 | 7754 |
| Black M: 76.4/144 | 361 | 442 | 173 | 445 | 533 | 417 | 212 | 481 | 561 | 3625 | 449 | 390 | 202 | 590 | 454 | 434 | 441 | 159 | 524 | 3643 | 7268 |
| Blue M: 74.3/138 | 332 | 409 | 156 | 421 | 508 | 395 | 183 | 455 | 544 | 3403 | 424 | 356 | 184 | 558 | 436 | 397 | 409 | 145 | 484 | 3393 | 6796 |
| White M: 72.0/135 | 328 | 394 | 142 | 408 | 489 | 372 | 156 | 423 | 519 | 3231 | 396 | 328 | 170 | 528 | 430 | 378 | 384 | 120 | 457 | 3191 | 6422 |
| Hybrid M: 70.6/134 | 332 | 338 | 142 | 380 | 454 | 372 | 136 | 338 | 519 | 3011 | 339 | 328 | 120 | 528 | 331 | 326 | 380 | 145 | 457 | 2954 | 5965 |
| Green M: 68.5/130 W: 73.8/131 | 260 | 338 | 109 | 380 | 454 | 313 | 136 | 338 | 450 | 2778 | 339 | 291 | 120 | 490 | 331 | 326 | 380 | 115 | 417 | 2809 | 5587 |
| Yellow W: 67.3/114 | 206 | 295 | 91 | 292 | 367 | 241 | 96 | 336 | 372 | 2296 | 289 | 251 | 89 | 357 | 250 | 298 | 293 | 54 | 385 | 2266 | 4562 |
| Handicap | 18 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 14 | 7 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 13 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 14 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 7 |
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Photo submitted by u950185714 on 10/12/2025
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Photo submitted by u950185714 on 10/12/2025
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Photo submitted by Outflying1 on 07/01/2025
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Photo submitted by drewsimone on 06/02/2025
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Photo submitted by matthes2 on 06/18/2024
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Photo submitted by Bhop0402 on 06/09/2023
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Photo submitted by leb on 08/11/2019
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Photo submitted by leb on 08/11/2019
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Photo submitted by leb on 08/11/2019
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Par 3, 17th Hole Photo submitted by TravisCedzidlo19 on 10/09/2014
Great course
I always love playing this course. First time in a long time playing without wind. Course was in great shape and the greens were in great shape even after being aerated.
Great Course
Don’t Play
Don’t waste your money. Course was in horrible condition. Bunkers were like hitting up dirt and pace. The play was 5+ hours.
bad ranger
I would recommend the course to somebody but I will not spend by money. It took 2:40 to play the front 9 due to an extremely slow group in front of us. They went in at the turn thank goodness and we played through them. The ranger decides to chew us out and pointing out the group in front of us is on 17 in a less than professional manner. I didn't not take it very well and proceeded to be a little rude about the group in front of us on 12. Then he promptly replied I'm glad you got thru them but the group in front of you is on 27. I responded, where the frok were you on the front 9, your out here on 14 telling us to speed up, if it was our group holding the course, waiting to tell someone on hole 14 is laughable. What good will that do ? Next time, which I am sure there will, have your facts straight before chiding to rip in to people. BTW, played back 9 in 1 1/2 hrs to at least get near a 4 hour round.
Awesomely difficult course
It’s great. If you haven’t played there should be enough positive reviews to convince you to. My only issue was inconsistency in bunker quality. Some bunkers that are commonly hit in are like concrete and have large stones scattered in them. While a very slim few were great. It leads to uncertainty in how to play the shot and damaged clubs. It’s little annoying considering there are 150 of them, and the round is expensive. Rough pretty dry too
Great place to play!!
I love this course, we come up from Indy to play. Always a great time
Nice condition...could use some work.
Course conditions were good. Nice to see that cart paths are being replaced. Played in 4 1/2 hours and that is with waiting on about 50% of holes, so not terrible. Tee boxes and fairways were nice, greens were decent but lots of ball marks. About 40% of bunkers were good, the rest with no sand and some were basically unplayable.
Purgatory is awesome
Great layout, amazing clubhouse with hunters lodge type feel to it. Staff was very friendly, my favorite course in Indy so far!!
Misleading
All websites and google searches will tell you this is a top course to play in Indiana. That may have been true many years ago, but today that is no longer the case. I’ve played a lot of golf in Indiana and can easily think of 10 courses that are better all around than purgatory. This course is well designed but horribly maintained at this point. It needs some serious management change if they wish to market themselves as a top course. The clubhouse was dirty and not kept very well. I will say the staff was polite (I talked to one guy). This is all not mentioning the fact that their bar/grill closes too early to get food at the turn. Playing there left me with one question, why would I pay for purgatory when I could save money and have a much better time at my local muni?
Wet Golf
Course held up well for the rain, no roll but still a great time