Christmas Lake Golf Course

Christmas Lake Golf Club in Santa Claus, Indiana is one of the most pedigreed public rounds in Southern Indiana, an Edmund Ault design that opened in 1967 and has earned a Golf Digest Top 75 Public Golf Courses in America ranking. Ault is best known for the Tournament Players Course at Avenal in Potomac MD and for executing a renovation at Congressional Country Club, which puts Christmas Lake among the most architecturally pedigreed public rounds in Indiana. The course spans 7,087 yards from the longest tees to a par of 72, and Ault's design is regularly cited as one of the toughest tests in Indiana, shorter tee boxes exist for recreational players, but the back-tee experience is genuinely championship-caliber. The setting is quirkily charming: the town of Santa Claus IN is a year-round Christmas-themed tourist attraction (Holiday World theme park is next door), which gives the course a 'serious golf in a themed-tourism town' visual identity unlike anywhere else in American golf. For the French Lick Resort / Southern Indiana trip visitor, Christmas Lake is a must-add, paired naturally with French Lick's Pete Dye and Donald Ross courses for a three-round Southern Indiana package.