Heritage Hill Golf Club
Shepherdsville, KY, United States • Public
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Overview
This is perhaps the best public course in the Louisville area—any golfer headed to Kentucky for a bourbon tour needs to plan around Heritage Hill. Doug Beach, a former associate of Jack Nicklaus, utilized former farmland amongst the beautiful rolling terrain of Kentucky’s Knobs Region in creating this design, which earned a Best New Public designation from Golf Digest in 2008. The varied landscape includes towering trees as well as wide open prairies, and the golfer experiences them in waves throughout the round. Extensive elevation change creates scenic vistas, such as the dropshot par-3 11th hole. The undulating terrain also means you’ll need a cart—more than seven miles of cart path were used to traverse this layout, including a 200-plus-yard uphill climb to the 18th hole. An extensive bunker renovation for all greenside hazards was finished last fall, and the remaining bunkers will be updated in Fall 2024.
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“I had the opportunity to play this course in Shepherdsville, Ky just south of Louisville. It’s a tale of two terrains: treeless exposed windswept holes with large cross bunkers and undulating greens; and forrest like settings straight out of a state park complete with meandering streams. The fairways and tee boxes are zoysia with bent grass greens. The fairways are wide and generous, but wind and bunkers protect this course. It’s a public course with reasonable rates. We walked, but with 7 miles of cart paths and long distances from green to tee, it’s not for the faint of heart. I recommend it!"
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“Great place to play just outside of Louisville. Challenging for golfer of any skill level."
Read More2022
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“Well maintained public course south of Louisville. It has a nice mixture of holes out in the open and holes through the woods. A few holes have dramatic elevation changes."
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“Heritage Hill is wonderful course in the hills just off Interstate 65 in Sheperdsville. This course reminds me of some of the courses in Alabama and Tennessee. The incredible zoysia fairways make it tough to find a bad lie. The course is an interesting design with bunkers and hazards throughout that get your attention. There are some short demanding par threes and interesting elevation changes on tee shots. This is a wonderful public course in Kentucky."
Read More2018
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