Billy Casper Golf has been tabbed to operate the longest golf course in Indiana, the course with the longest hole in America, and Colgate University’s Seven Oaks Golf Course in Hamilton, NY.
The Indiana course is the 7,754-yard behemoth at Purgatory Golf Club in Noblesville. The 18-hole, Ron Kern-designed course is also among the state’s most difficult, as it features 125 bunkers, fairways lined by thick, tall grasses, and, according to an online reviewer, “wickedly contoured greens.”
BCG operates two other golf properties in the Hoosier State, Blackthorn Golf Club in South Bend and Sand Creek Country Club in Chesterton, neither of which pose comparable challenges.
Meadows Farms Golf Course, in Locust Grove, Virginia, also selected Billy Casper Golf. It features a 27-hole, championship layout with the longest hole in America.
Local businessman Ken Dotson, owner of a longstanding construction and real estate company, recently purchased Meadows Farms from Bill “Farmer” Meadows, owner of Meadows Farms Nurseries.
“Meadows Farms is an important component of the recreation and economic stature of the Locust Grove community, so we felt it important ownership be local,” Dotson said.
The Bill Ward Jr., design opened in 1993 and features some unique characteristics, including a baseball diamond-shaped par 3, and an 841-yard par 6 recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as “the longest hole in the United States.”
Colgate University selected Billy Casper Golf to manage the first design by legendary architect Robert Trent Jones, Sr.
Located less than one hour southeast of Syracuse, NY, the 6,915-yard, par 72 Seven Oaks is a semi-private course.
BCG will expand an events calendar and other programming with special attention to residents, junior, women and senior golfers.