In time for the greatest spectacle in… golfing?
Nothing new to report on the golf course that features four holes inside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but USAToday’s Larry Olmsted blogs on the Brickyard Crossing. The Brickyard is hardly the greatest spectacle in golfing, but I felt it necessary to use the Indy 500’s tag line in commemoration of my home state’s biggest event.
It is a good course by any standard, but it is the unique location and history and setting in and around this legendary track that makes a round at Brickyard Crossing special.
Brickyard Crossing is a Pete Dye course, but not his best public course in Indy. That would be “The Fort” on the other side of town. However, a round at the Brickyard Crossing is unique and worth it, if only for the spectacle of playing four holes inside the famous raceway.
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As a resident of Indy’s westside, I can confirm that Olmsted’s comments about the course are pretty accurate. The golf is average - you’re paying for the unique experience of playing in and around the Speedway. As you would expect from an IMS-owned property, it is first class in service and conditioning.
I do enjoy going there to use their practice facilities. More often than not, a race team is testing or they have the 2-seater tourist cars running. Nothing like hitting golf balls to the tune of a race car screaming by!
It used to be Speedway CC with 27 holes. The main 18 were all outside the track. The Track Nine was a scruffy little layout completely inside the track - it suffered from its secondary (or primary, depending on perspective) use as parking areas during the race…
In a creative variation from his trademark railroad sleepers, Dye stacked sections of the old concrete track retaining walls to shore up creek banks.