Indiana's twenty premier courses, anchored at #1 by Tom Fazio's Victoria National — a private club carved from an abandoned strip coal mine near Evansville and acquired by Dormie Network in 2018. Pete Dye's imprint is unmistakable, with his work appearing on nine of the trail's twenty courses, but the list is broader than any one architect: Jack Nicklaus designs at Sycamore Hills and The Sagamore Club, Coore & Crenshaw's Warren Course at Notre Dame, Steve Smyers and Fuzzy Zoeller's Pfau Course at Indiana University, William Diddel's Golden Age work at South Bend Country Club and Woodland, and Donald Ross's 1917 Hill Course at French Lick all hold spots. Crooked Stick — Pete and Alice Dye's home course in Carmel, where the back nine opened in 1965 and the front in 1967, with Dye's Scottish-links inspirations built into Indiana cornfield — sits at #2 and hosted the 1991 PGA Championship. The Pete Dye and Donald Ross courses at French Lick Resort have anchored Indiana's public-access conversation for over a decade. The trail also includes daily-fee standouts like Purgatory and Rock Hollow, and Tim Liddy's first solo design at The Trophy Club. Eight of the twenty courses are private, making the public and resort portions the realistic target for most pursuits.