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You can also find courses by using a map of the 9-county area
and in our course catalog or bargain golf list.

OR you can search the entire IndyGolf.com website for specific names or words.

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Find courses that meet the following criteria.

No filtering is done on fields that are left blank.
If you just hit "Begin Search", all the publically-playable courses in the directory will be shown.
Course name (1):
Choose as many of the boxes below as you wish.
Checking none in a group is the same as checking all.
Location: Boone County
Hendricks County
Morgan County		 Hamilton County
Marion County
Johnson County		 Madison County
Hancock County
Shelby County
Further North
Further West		 Further East
Further South		 Outside Indiana
Type: Public & Private with open guest policy Private
Price (2): Low Moderate High
Holes (3): 9 18  
Difficulty (4): Easy Moderate Hard
Par 3 Par 3 and 4 "Executive"
Terrain: Flat Rolling Hilly

(1) Course name:

 Enter all or part of the course name. ("creek" will find Bluff Creek, Deer Creek, Eagle Creek, Grassy Creek, Plum Creek, Quail Creek, etc.). All other search criteria are ignored if a course name is entered. Case is not important.

(2) Price:

 Low is less than $30 for 18 holes with a riding cart on a weekend.
Moderate is $30 to $40.
High is more than $40.

(3) Holes:

 Many, but not all, 18 hole courses have a 9-hole greens fee. Rates are presented in the course detail screens.

(4) Difficulty:

 Easy is less than 110 slope rating for the "white" tees.
Moderate is 110 to 120.
Hard is more than 120.

Par 3 and 4 "Executive" courses average Par 30.
Why do we use the "slope" rating to determine the difficulty of courses instead of the "course" rating?

From the USGA handicap manual (here):

Course Rating (eg. 71.2) is the USGA's mark that indicates the evaluation of the playing difficulty of a course for scratch golfers under normal course and weather conditions.

Slope Rating (eg. 113) is the USGA's service mark which is used to measure a player's potential scoring ability on a course relative to the scoring ability of a scratch golfer on that course. It is a measure of how much above or below the Course Rating a player with a given Handicap Index will score. A golf course of standard relative playing difficulty has a Slope Rating of 113.

Simplified, the slope is an indication of how hard the course is for the average golfer.