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4.5
554 Reviews (554)
5 Stars
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4 Stars
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3 Stars
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2 Stars
13
1 Stars
7
Conditions
4.3
Value
4.2
Layout
4.7
Friendliness
4.6
Pace
4.0
Amenities
4.3
90.6%
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513 out of 554 reviews
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4.2
22 Reviews (22)
5 Stars
13
4 Stars
5
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2
Conditions
4.2
Value
4.1
Layout
4.7
Pace
3.6
Amenities
4.1
StaffFriendliness
4.4
90.9%
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20 out of 22 reviews
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4.4
52 Reviews (52)
5 Stars
34
4 Stars
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3 Stars
4
2 Stars
2
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Conditions
4.3
Value
4.2
Layout
4.7
Pace
3.8
Amenities
4.2
StaffFriendliness
4.6
88.5%
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46 out of 52 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Public
Par 72
Length 7754 yards
Slope 142
Rating 78.1

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.

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Course Details

Year Built 2000
Fairways Bent Grass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Ron Kern (2000)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Caddies Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Proper golf attire required.

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Banquet Facilities

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4.5
554 Reviews (554)
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Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing

Well maintained

Great course!!! Well maintained bunkers, fairways and tee boxes.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
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I Recommend This Course
5.0
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
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I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
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Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
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Reviews 8
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
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4.0
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Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Reviews 15
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0

Good Shape for Early Season

The course is in pretty good shape considering how early in the season it is. Sand traps were raked, fairways were mowed. The greens rolled true but not fast which is expected. This is a great course to play early in the season because it’s maintained well all year round.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Purgatory

Fall golf, cheaper rate, greens had been punched, mounds mowed. Still a fun course to play. Plenty of tee locations for your enjoyment.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
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Commented on 10/26/2019

Thank you for the review and playing at Purgatory. Please come back and play again.

Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Pace Good
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Commented on 10/22/2019

JD thank you for the 5 star review. Hope you get back out to play again soon!

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Reviews 3
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

this is a very good course but the cart paths need a lot of work.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Commented on 10/22/2019

Thank you for taking the time to review the course. Currently, we are evaluating products and companies to perform some of the repairs

Played On
Reviews 27
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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First Time Playing

Purgatory

Greens were very good. Traps were poor, no one rakes footprints. No starter so there were too many twosomes which slowed play.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Average
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Reviews 1
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Friendly, accomodating, comfortable

Beautiful, challenging links course. Staff is accomodating, friendly, and knowledgeable. Some inconsistency with the many bunkers, some soft, some very hard, but that's the only thing that was a little uncomfortable.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Commented on 10/10/2019

Thank you for the great review, hope you get back out to play again soon.

Played On
Reviews 42
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
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Commented on 10/10/2019

Dusty, thank you for playing Purgatory we appreciate your patronage

Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Very nice course

GPS on carts would be nice, since there are a lot of forced carriers on the course.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 10/10/2019

We appreciate your feedback and want to thank you for your review! Come back and visit us again soon.

Played On
Reviews 43
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 10/03/2019

Thank you for the 5 star review. Hope you get back out to play again soon!

Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Nice layout, greens excellent, terribly slow play

Enjoyed the course layout and Condition. Greens were best I’ve played this year and wonderfully challenging. Greens fast, consistent and true. Precision shot placement required to score well. Fairways condition and cut is great..surprising good shape for late in the season. Two disappointments - pace of play was terrible..held up On every shot throughout the round as no Marshal to be found to, well, manage the flow..disappointing on course of the caliber and difficulty that no one out for the entire round..some frustration by group members when on every hole was backed up..also, carts had no GPS and yardage markers almost non-existent. Otherwise, enjoyed the course..scored well...just, frustrating experience due to slow play.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 17
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Fun course!

This course is very different from most courses in central Indiana. Lots of side hill lies. TONS of bunkers and moguls. Hope your sand wedge is working for you. Very scenic, lots of wildlife. Keep your eye on your ball. Once you are off the fairway, you need to know exactly where to look. We finished in a little over three hours. Great pace of play. A memorable round of golf. Beautiful club house.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 09/04/2019

Thank you for the great review. Hope you get back out to play again soon.

Played On
Reviews 22
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Commented on 09/04/2019

Thank you for the 4 star review, hope you get back out to play again soon.

Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played

A shell of its old self.

It’s a shame such a great track has became a shell of its old self. The greens are absolutely horrible. Slow and just awful. Damaged in a lot of places. Tees and fairways are perfect. Bunkers are hit and miss. Mostly pretty rough though. Cart paths are destroyed. Really hope someone can get this place back to how it used to be. I’ve talked it up throughout the years. Took someone over to play it today and was embarrassed.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

First time playing

Course is well taken care of, greens are in great shape. Narrow fairways require precision off the tee due to all of the bunkers. Overall a great experience, only downfall is the pro-shop had a minimal selection of men’s medium tops, upside is I saved some money by the pro-shop not having medium size men’s tops.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
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Commented on 08/22/2019

We are happy you enjoyed the day. Sorry we did not have enough mediums, they have went fast this year.

leb
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing

Interesting course could be great

We drove a couple hours away to make purgatory the first of two courses for the day. The grounds and clubhouse are very nice, and the staff greeting us with carts in the parking lot was a nice touch. The breakfast burritos were fantastic! They had a starter, and the course was busy, but not packed at 10am on a beautiful Saturday morning. Pace of play throughout the day was not an issue.

The course itself was in good, but not great shape. We were somewhat perplexed at some standing water around some tee boxes, while others were bone dry since it hadn’t rained in a good week at least. We thought they might have some drainage issues or busted sprinklers. We still can’t figure out what was going on there.

The greens were not rolled and were not fast. Somewhat disappointing.

The routing is nice, and very beautiful with the fescue. The course is obviously famous for the bunkers, and they were in fine shape.

It’s a very playable tract, surprisingly so. Fairways are huge. Very bad shots face very penal results, but all in all, the course was fair.

We had some confusion on the front side, as the white tees were sometimes playing much shorter than advertised. The tees all played the listed distance on the back nine.

This could be an amazing golf course, but some things should be improved. It’s somewhat pricey, but the carts were very dirty and not regularly hosed down.

I think the course relies on “tourist golfers” like ourselves, and may not have a dedicated clientele who would perhaps expect more on a day to day basis. It was a gimmicky appeal, with various tees and sand... and, of course, the 7900 yards that no one would ever play.

It was a fun day on the links.

Speed up the greens. Clean up the details, and this could be an amazing venue.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 08/13/2019

Thank you for the review, we appreciate your feedback. Glad you enjoyed the course. We have been experiencing some irrigation issues where heads are not turning off at the scheduled time. We believe we have this solved now, sorry you experienced the wet tee boxes.

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