Old silo golf plus#

I paid $59 for an all you can play on a weekday, plus some swag (free yardage book, etc.). There are a few decent holes on the course, but most of them come early in the round. The place was in good of condition as it reasonably could have been and you could see efforts were being made to maintain what they had, and repair it for next season. When I visited Old Silo, they were feeling the heat from the 2005 drought where not many courses made it out of the summer. The green is protected on the left side and front right, and undulating. The second shot is met with two choices of fairway: the right side is easier, but presents a more difficult approach. There’s not a lot of trouble off the tee, though the left side would be preferred. Old Silo concludes with a par 5 that is uphill and likely a three-shoter. A hole you would expect to par or biride, but not necessarily a guarantee. Four bunkers to the left protect the green. The penultimate hole is a shorter length par 4, but the meandering creek along the right is ever present the more the golf chooses to cut the dogleg. The approach must cross the creek, although it is much more in play here that it was on 6. The tee shot shouldn’t be that difficult despite the bunkering around it. The tee box and tees are positioned in a way that is a bit awkward and not exactly straight forward.

The hole just seems out of place with everything else before and after it.ġ6 is the only hole where the “Old Silo” actually comes into play. This green is small and protected by bunkers left and right. The hole reminds me a bit of the controversial 12th at Shaker Run (3 Woodlands) but at least on that hole, the green slopes back to front and is a large target. Most players are forced to layup to around 170 yards or so, lest they want to deal with the sharp drop off. I didn’t want to mention hole 15, but I think I have to just because, in my humble opinion, this hole keeps Old Silo from being an 8 on the OINK scale. The hole is protected by a bunch of bunkers in different driving zones, but overall the hole is pretty easy. The hole is downhill and when I played, downwind (which enabled a rare 300 yard drive from me). If you lost your confidence over the front 9, hole 10 is a good place to get it back. There are bunkers left and right in the driving zone, left sharing a bunker complex with 16. The hole drops 80ft from tee to fairway, then rises again to the green. And yes, like every other elevated tee I’ve reviewed (see Boulder Creek and Paa-Ko Ridge), I implore you to hit one from the tips. Also, you realize you go up and down the valley a few times you’ll be thankful for the cart. A long and hilly cart-ride up to the par 4 third won’t be your only cart-ride of the day. The reward isn’t quite worth the risk for me.Īfter hole 2, you realize why you need a cart. There’s trouble left and right in the landing zone, and the green slopes sharply downhill off the back. The 2nd hole is an odd place in the round for a short par 4, and really the only hole like it on the course. The par 5 1st gives the player a first glance at the artistic bunkering style at Old Silo. Old Silo is very much a cart-only course, those the first two holes wouldn’t tell you that. Only a couple of holes are adjacent to the highway, and they do a pretty good job of disguising it. So it’s not in the most densely populated of areas, but the same could be said about a lot of Kentucky’s best public golf courses.

Located next to I-64, the course is about a half-hour from Lexington, KY. Sterling, KY is the first North American design by Graham Marsh (who would go on to design the well-acclaimed Sutton Bay). Unfortunately, things have gone very downhill for this course. Enjoy this post for the memories.ĭisclaimer: My review of Old Silo is my reflection of the course as it was in September 2005. May 2017 Disclaimer: It appears the final nail in the Old Silo coffin has been hammered in.