THE CLUB AT OLDE STONE
🇺🇸 Bowling Green, KY, USA
Designed by Arthur Hills, Drew Rogers, Steve Forrest


The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Kentucky features a course designed through a collaboration involving Arthur Hills, Drew Rogers, and Steve Forrest. Hills, known for his prolific career designing courses across the United States from the 1960s through the 2000s, brought his characteristic approach of working with natural terrain to create playable yet strategic layouts. The involvement of Rogers and Forrest suggests either a renovation of Hills's original design or a collaborative design process that blended their respective philosophies.
The course sits in south-central Kentucky's rolling terrain, where the landscape typically offers elevation changes and the potential for varied hole corridors through wooded areas and open ground. Hills often incorporated natural stone features and water elements into his designs when the site permitted, and the "Olde Stone" name suggests such features play a role in the course's character and aesthetic. The routing likely takes advantage of the property's topography to create a mix of uphill, downhill, and sidehill lies that require thoughtful club selection and course management.
As a private club facility in Bowling Green—a city of roughly 70,000 that serves as a regional hub in Kentucky—Olde Stone provides the primary championship-length golf option for the area's membership. The club serves both golf and social functions for its members, typical of full-service private clubs in mid-sized American cities. The course offers a test suitable for competitive club events while remaining accessible to members of varying skill levels.
Reviews
Perhaps the best course in Kentucky
FAQ
Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Olde Stone at The Club at Olde Stone has a Course Vaults score of 8.4 out of 10 based on 22 explicit golfer ratings.
Olde Stone was designed by Arthur Hills, Drew Rogers, and Steve Forrest.
Olde Stone at The Club at Olde Stone is listed as private on Course Vaults; guest access is typically restricted.
Par at Olde Stone is 72.
Olde Stone plays 7,372 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.
The slope rating at Olde Stone is 139.