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Cardinal Hills Course

Cardinal Hills Golf Course

Selma, IN, USA
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18 holesPar 716,338 yds70.2/125

About this course

Cardinal Hills Golf Course sits in Selma, a small community in east-central Indiana near Muncie. The course was designed by Bill Diddel, a prolific Midwestern architect who shaped dozens of layouts across Indiana, Ohio, and neighboring states during the mid-twentieth century. Diddel's work typically emphasized playability for everyday golfers while incorporating strategic interest through thoughtful green complexes and routing that worked with available terrain. The course occupies rolling farmland characteristic of this part of Indiana, where modest elevation changes and mature tree lines define playing corridors. Diddel's routing likely takes advantage of natural contours to create variety in stance and approach angles, with greens that reward accurate iron play. The layout serves as a community course, offering accessible golf in a rural setting where the game remains a social and recreational anchor for the surrounding area. Cardinal Hills represents the kind of straightforward, honest design that Diddel built throughout the region—courses intended for regular play rather than championship competition, but crafted with enough strategic elements to remain engaging for golfers of varying abilities. The setting provides a quiet, pastoral round typical of small-town Indiana golf, where the focus remains on the game itself rather than elaborate amenities.

Quick facts

Location
Selma, IN, USA
Access
Public
Year built
1950
Designer
Bill Diddel
Holes
18
Par
71
Length
6,338 yards
Difficulty
70.2/125

Getting there

Cardinal Hills Golf Course lies in the quiet farmland of east-central Indiana, roughly an hour's drive northeast of Indianapolis International Airport via I-69 and a succession of rural state highways that gradually narrow as they pass through Muncie and into Delaware County. The final miles trace gently rolling terrain where cornfields give way to wooded ridgelines, and the small town of Selma announces itself with little fanfare - a fitting prelude to a course that has long served as a local sanctuary far removed from the noise of the interstate. Arrival feels less like a destination reached and more like a discovery made, the kind of place where regulars know the road by heart and first-timers rely on careful directions.

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Common questions about Cardinal Hills

Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.

Cardinal Hills was designed by Bill Diddel.

Yes. Cardinal Hills is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.

Par at Cardinal Hills is 71.

Cardinal Hills plays 6,338 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.

The slope rating at Cardinal Hills is 125.

Cardinal Hills is a 18-hole course.

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