A collection of Louisville-Lexington courses
Alabama golfers ready to hit the road this summer have a new destination: the Kentucky Golf Trail, the nation’s newest.
From Alabama, the new collection of courses is the highway equivalent of a driveable par 4. Drive time from Mobile is nine and a half hours. From Huntsville, it’s less than five hours.
. The Kentucky Golf Trail now has six courses in the Louisville-Lexington area and it’s likely to have more before the year’s out.
Bob Baldassari ended a long run in Florida golf to join The Woodford Club, which is near Lexington. That led to his joining forces with Randy Clay, a co-owner of that club, in establishing the the collection of quality courses they’ve dubbed the Kentucky Golf Trail. Baldassari’s wife Pam is also part of the trail’s ownership team.
“We moved [to Kentucky] and saw an opportunity,’’ said Baldassari. “We came to re-imagine golf there.’’
The Trail is up and running with six courses in the Lexington-Lousville area. The Woodford Club, in Versailles, will celebrate its 60th anniversary in April and will host a Legends Tour June 7-8.
Other courses on the trail website are Greenbrier, in Lexington; Bardstown, in Bardstrown; Gibson Bay, in Richmond; Cherry Blossom, in Georgetown; and GlenOaks, in Prospect. Clay expects the number of courses to grow to 10-12 before this golf season is in full swing.
“We want to showcase the best in Kentucky golf,’’ Clay said.
The Kentucky Golf Trail will be unique, in that the packages offered include bourbon tastings; distillery and winery tours; brewery and horse farm tours; and stops at Churchill Downs and Keeneland race tracks.
To learn more check out info@kygolftrail.com or call Pam Baldassari at 859-682-6001.
Len Ziehm is a former sports writer for the Chicago Sun-Times who edits Len Ziehm on Golf, a website devoted to golf travel. He is the executive director of the Golf Travel Writers of America.
Featured image courtesy of Gibson Bay Golf Course
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