Kearney Hill Golf Links

• 🏆Best Public Course in Kentucky #4 — Golfweek
• 🏆Senior PGA Tour Host (1990-1997) — PGA Tour Champions
• 🏆U.S. Amateur Public Links Host (1997) — USGA

Pete Dye and his son P.B. Dye opened Kearney Hill Golf Links in 1989 as a Scottish links-inspired municipal course on the north side of Lexington — rare to find a Pete Dye public muni anywhere, let alone in Kentucky. The 7,018-yard par-72 layout features the kind of pot bunkering and links shaping that distinguish Dye designs from typical American parkland golf. Kearney Hill ranked inside Kentucky's top 5 from 1991-93 and #10 in 2015-16. Currently it sits #13 Best Course in Kentucky (Top100golfcourses.com 2024) and #4 Best Public Course in Kentucky by Golfweek (2025). Tournament history is deep: the Senior PGA Tour played here from 1990-1997, Tim Clark won the 1997 U.S. Amateur Public Links here, and Mina Harigae took the 2007 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links title. Daily-fee muni pricing keeps it in the $ band — extraordinary value for a Pete Dye design with this much tournament pedigree.