Growing LPGA event positioning Indy as driving force for women in tech
Attendance for the four-day Indy Women in Tech Championship is expected to grow more than 30 percent this year.
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Highland sets new course with $1.6M golf-training academy
As part of a strategic plan to guide it into the future, the 99-year-old golf club has an arrangement to share the 9,200-square-foot indoor training facility with Butler University, which uses Highland as its home course.
Owner of esteemed golf course proposes ditching links, building mixed-use project
Redeveloping the Zionsville course—consistently ranked among the best in the country—could include 360 single-family homes and 200 multi-family housing units.
Buyer’s restoration of Saddlebrook Golf Course under way
Neighbors who raised $250,000 to help save the northwest-side course are set to gather early next month to celebrate the progress on the course.
Topgolf planning to hire 500 for its Fishers location
The 65,000-square-foot golf attraction at the corner of 116th Street and Interstate 69 is slated to open this fall.
French Lick predicts victory from hosting Senior LPGA Championship
The economic impact for this particular tournament remains to be seen, in part because it is new. However, past events at the Pete Dye Course have brought a positive impact to French Lick.
Neighbors raising money to aid potential buyer of Saddlebrook Golf Course
The public course, an anchor for the neighborhood bounding West 56th Street in Pike Township, closed in late 2015 after the previous owner defaulted on a $2.4 million bank loan.
Rain-soaked BMW Championship sees slight decline in attendance
Attendance was down about 13 percent from when Crooked Stick last hosted the tournament in 2012, but this year’s event was plagued by rainy, stormy weather that delayed rounds during the first three days of play.
Rain tames Crooked Stick in first round of BMW Championship
Storms and heavy rain caused a 3-1/2-hour delay and changed Crooked Stick Golf Club's greens from fast and firm to soft and accessible Thursday during the first round of the BMW Championship in Carmel.
Lawyer with lifelong love of golf co-chairing Crooked Stick tourney
Lebanon attorney Kent Frandsen, co-chair of the BMW Championship, has volunteered in some capacity for 10 national championships at the Pete Dye-designed course.
Golf sees surge in youth teams
An innovative and fast-growing golf league for children ages 7 to 13 is giving the industry hope that the sport is finally ready to emerge from the rough.
Tee-time brokerages roil golf industry
Are tee-time brokers like GolfNow knocking cash-strapped courses into the rough? Or could the Expedia-like providers be the chip shot courses need to get back on the green?
Feud pits Highland Country Club against neighbors
Homeowners who live just south of the golf club’s southern border fret about the future of the White River bluffs if Highland proceeds with controversial plans to sell 20 acres for residential development.
Saddlebrook Golf Course teed up for auction
The 135-acre property on the northwest side is set to be sold in four pieces, attracting interest from real estate developers and golf course operators.
Topgolf entertainment venue to open on 116th Street in Fishers
The three-level, 65,000-square-foot location—the company’s first in Indiana—would offer competitive golfing games in addition to food, alcohol and other entertainment options.
Rounds played, revenue plummet at flooded golf courses
The season has been so bad, some central Indiana courses are facing significant financial losses—and perhaps ruin.
Highland seeks to wedge upscale homes on golf course grounds
The country club on the northwest side foresees 46 houses on 25 acres and using money from the sale of the land to make crucial improvements to the private retreat.
Neighbors yell ‘fore’ over apartment project that would replace golf course
A par-3 golf course on the city’s north side could be replaced by a $45 million apartment community with nearly 400 units, much to the chagrin of neighbors opposing the massive project.
Golf-course manager says fresh formula could help revive sport
Golf course and country club management firm Green Golf Partners launched four years ago, at a time the golf industry nationwide was deep in the rough.
City’s oldest Pete Dye golf course goes private
The owner of Maple Creek Golf & Country Club has decided to make the east-side club fully private again after increasing membership last year nearly 50 percent.