Eagle Ridge Golf Course

Getting To Know: Eagle Ridge Golf Course @ Yatesville Lake State Park

An Insightful Interview With Missy Kennedy, PGA Head Golf Professional

By Brian Weis

Whether you have played a course 20+ times a year or looking to play the course for the first time, insights from an insider can help enhance your golf experience. Below is an interview with Missy Kennedy who shares some valuable tidbits about the course, memorable holes and must eats and treats at the 19th.

Give Our Readers An Overview of the Golf Course/Property
Ridge Golf Course at Yatesville Lake State Park is located in the scenic eastern Kentucky foothills near Louisa, Kentucky. Architects Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest design highlights the rugged beauty of the region in creating a golfing masterpiece. With 4-5 sets of tees on each hole, manicured fairways and immaculate greens, Eagle Ridge Golf Course offers opportunities for golfers of all skill levels.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Eagle Ridge Golf Course is a quiet mountainous course that will take your breathe away with spectacular views and dramatic elevation changes. If you would like to enjoy mother nature at its finest and a great layout of a golf course then Eagle Ridge is your place!
p.s. BRING YOUR CAMERA!

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Eagle Ridge Golf Course is target golf. You tee off next to the clubhouse and wind yourself around the course through the mountains and then make the turn out by the lake and work your way back towards the clubhouse finishing on #18 by the driving range. It is a relatively short course but you have to keep the ball in play. There are several tee shots that you have to carry over ravens. Leave your driver in the trunk. Play the yardage and hit something that will keep you in the fairway.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
2013/2014 - Golf Digest #11 Best in State of Kentucky
2011/2012 - Golf Digest #6 Best in State of Kentucky
2012 - #1 Golf Course in Kentucky, Golf Kentucky Links
2012/2013 - Golf Digest #10 Best in State of Kentucky
2010 - Ranked #6 by "Golf Digest" Best Courses You Can Play
2009 - Ranked #9 by "Golf Digest" Best Courses You Can Play
2005 - "Best New Affordable Public Courses", ranked #3 nationally by "Golf Digest" Magazine

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole #13 is our Signature Hole! It's a 225 foot drop from the tee box to the fairway. An absolute spectacular view from up top the mountain down to the green that sits next to a cove of Yatesville Lake. You can play it safe to the middle of the fairway or go for the green!! I say go for it! After your tee shot take a relaxing cart ride down the windy cart path down to the lake. Bring your camera and great group photo shot on tee box or down behind the green next to the lake.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 71
Yardage: Tee 1, 6630 - Tee 4, 5041
Slope: 142
Rating: 68

More Information
Eagle Ridge Golf Course @ Yatesville Lake State Park
1410 Golf Course Road
Louisa, KY 41230
606-673-4300
www.parks.ky.gov

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.