Big Cedar Lodge: Buffalo Ridge

This Tom Fazio design was the first course built at what is now Big Cedar Lodge, the ever-expandning recreational resort in southern Missouri from Bass Pro Shop founder Johnny Morris. Typical of Team Fazio, the design is strong on visual flair, with long views of the surrounding Ozarks as backdrops for holes cut through the site's exposed limestone outcroppings. The first nine is more up and down, situated on a higher section of land, and the second nine loops around the perimeter of a bluff that shows off the surrounding ridges and ravines. Networks of burbling artificial streams and rocky waterscapes accompany golfers around the course, leading to a big fiive-hole finish that starts at the par-5 14th playing through a valley toward a green set on a bluff above a section of creek.