West/South at Shelby Oaks Golf Club

Shelby Oaks Golf Club in Sidney, Ohio, features 27 holes designed by Ken Killian and Dick Nugent, two architects who collaborated extensively throughout the Midwest during the 1970s and 1980s. The West and South nines combine to form one of the facility's three possible 18-hole configurations, offering golfers variety in routing and challenge across the property's rolling terrain characteristic of western Ohio.

Killian and Nugent typically emphasized strategic design that rewarded thoughtful course management over pure length, incorporating natural land movement and water features into their layouts. At Shelby Oaks, the combination of these two nines presents a mix of open and tree-lined holes, with elevation changes that require attention to club selection and approach angles. The design reflects the era's movement toward more playable public and semi-private facilities that still maintained architectural interest through green contouring and hazard placement.

The course serves the Sidney community and surrounding Shelby County area, functioning as both a daily-fee facility and a venue for local competitive golf. The West/South routing provides a complete test that balances risk-reward opportunities with more straightforward holes, typical of Killian and Nugent's approach to creating accessible yet engaging golf courses. The layout takes advantage of the property's natural features while maintaining the playability standards expected of Midwest public golf during the period of its construction.