Ohiya Casino & Resort

W O W what a golf course. Wide fairways, huge greens, tee boxes for every player. Fantastic views from every hill and valley. We will play this course again and again. Resort walking distance from course.

Beautiful, but very challenging course. Look for the buffalo grazing on the side hills! Lots of prairie grass roughshod. Bring a lot of golf balls unless you are really good at hitting your target.

A course made of nice fairways, ball stealing fescue (or prairie grasses), and true greens. The course has nice views of the surrounding land. The course puts you in some unique situations.

Beautiful course with great views. Relatively cheap green fees especially after 2:00. Course was in good condition. Work still needs to be done (especially to cart paths). Lack of back fill around new concrete paths lead to 6" drop offs and a rough ride on the cart. Course is pretty long and demands balls to stay on the fairway. Tall grass surrounds the fairways and bunkers which makes errant shot retrieval nearly impossible. The first night we played the wind was around 30 mph. Rory or Phil would have had a hard time playing par golf. The next day was calm and sunny making the course more playable but still difficult. Only complaint was the casino. No table games, only slots (which I hate). Food wasn't very good there either. Even with that, I shall return to lose more balls ;-)

Fun course and great location. Staff, rooms, restaurant and all were over the top. Serious golfers need to put this on their list. The clubhouse, ambience and service is great.

Both courses offer unique challenges and are well maintained. Only issues I had were pace of play. There was no starter and no marshalls. Some rounds can take well over 4.5 hours. We missed our replay time because of slow play and could not get back out for an hour.

A fantastic layout on a beautiful piece of land. This course is over the top for this location. I can't believe it will get the play it needs to survive, so far from populations centers. Although it is referred to as a resort course, I don't see this as a resort, or the style of the course to appeal to resort travelers. The course is long and somewhat difficult. I am a 5 hcp and had to play from the third tee up at 6700 yards. All the par 3s were long and two of them required a 3 wood. The layout is imaginiative and unique to the land. Every hole has a different look and a challenge. This course is for serious golfers and should host some state tournaments.

Things I liked:

Scenic and the contrasting prairie grass and elevation changes added a dramatic affect.

Greens in great shape and not too crazy with undulation.

Great condition for a first year course.

Every hole had a unique and challenging look

We enjoyed being one of only a few groups on the course.

price vs value is good

Areas of improvement:

No sprinkler head yardage markers and the course was not on my garmin. Was guessing on yardage.

Course was long and the difference in the green tees at 6100 yards and white tees at 6700 is too big of a gap.

No GPS on carts

The casino hotel is almost a detriment. Until they build cabins and nicer on site lodging, I don't think this will be a destination golf resort. Hotel is decent, but you have to walk through a smoky casino to get to your room.

Overall I would suggest serious golfers from Sioux City and Omaha put this on their list to play.