Comments on: In time for the greatest spectacle in… golfing? http://www.earthgolf.com/2007/05/24/in-time-for-the-greatest-spectacle-in-golfing/ Golf Course Design, Architecture, News and Commentary Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:16:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: JWGriffin http://www.earthgolf.com/2007/05/24/in-time-for-the-greatest-spectacle-in-golfing/comment-page-1/#comment-7 JWGriffin Fri, 25 May 2007 16:32:22 +0000 http://wire2.wirenine.com/~earthgol/golf/?p=99#comment-7 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. 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.

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