Olde Stone Course
Bowling Green, KY, USA
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.
Ranked by CV ratings from golfers who've played this course. Positions are shown worldwide, by country, and by state; the Private column compares member-only and guest-restricted courses.
Best in World
Unranked
Best in USA
Unranked
Best in KY
All courses
8.5
31 players
Perhaps the best course in Kentucky
Public courses closest to Olde Stone.
I need to flag an important discrepancy in the provided information. The coordinates 37.57198, -83.31978 place the location in eastern Kentucky near the Daniel Boone National Forest, approximately 170 miles east of Bowling Green. Given this conflict, I'll write based on the stated city of Bowling Green, Kentucky, as that appears to be the intended location for The Club at Olde Stone.
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The journey to The Club at Olde Stone begins at Nashville International Airport, roughly an hour's drive north across the Tennessee-Kentucky line into the gently rolling terrain of south-central Kentucky. Bowling Green's intimate scale means the transition from interstate to country road is swift and unhurried, with the landscape gradually opening into pastoral farmland and limestone outcroppings that hint at the region's ancient karst geology. For members arriving by private aircraft, Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport provides convenient access just minutes from the club grounds. The final approach delivers you to a setting where old stone and new tradition converge in one of Kentucky's most discreet golfing retreats.
FAQ
Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Olde Stone has a Course Vaults score of 8.5 out of 10 based on 23 explicit golfer ratings.
Olde Stone was designed by Arthur Hills, Drew Rogers, and Steve Forrest.
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.
