Awards
Honors our course has received:
- Indiana Golf Course Owners Association Course of the Year 2016
- America’s Top 50 Courses for Women/2013, # 33
- PGA.com, A Quick 9: Best Public Courses in Indiana, Purgatory Golf Club is named #2
- Golf Digest: Best in State Rankings list, 2012
- America’s Top 50 Courses for Women by Golf Digest / Golf Digest Woman, March 2010, 2011, 2012
- America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses by Golf Digest Magazine
- Top 50 Public Courses, Readers Choice Awards 2009, Golf World Magazine
- Top 50 Courses for Women by Golf For Women Magazine 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- #1 course in the state, Golf Week Magazine
- Host course to the 2007 Indiana State Open Championship
- Best place to take out-of-towners, Indianapolis Monthly Magazine
- Top 10 courses in the state of Indiana, Golf Digest 2001 – 2012
- Best new golf course, Indianapolis Business Journal
- Best of the Best, Best Value (under $70), Golf For Women Magazine
- Indiana’s Best Golf, readers pick Purgatory as one of their favorite 18 courses, Indiana Business Magazine
- Top 25 courses in the Midwest, Great Lakes Golf Magazine
- ADDY award, 1999 American Advertising Awards, Visual/Audio Elements – Logo/Trademark Design
Media Coverage
- Golf Business Magazine
- Golf Advisor
- The A Position
- Michigan Golfer
- Golf.com
- Detroit Free Press
- Golf Advisor
- WorldGolf.com
- Golf Trips.com
- America’s Top 50 Courses for Women/2013, Golf Digest
- PGA Tour Radio, Tech Tuesday
- PGA.com 2012, Best Public Courses in Indiana, Purgatory Golf Club is #2.
- Best golf courses near Indianapolis, Indiana, from Golf.com/Sports Illustrated
Golf.com 2012: PURGATORY: This may be the most visually stunning course in the state. Despite the name there’s plenty of fun to be had on the 218-acre layout (perhaps less so if you’re so bold as to play from the 7,754 yard Purgatory tees). Pay heed to the 173-yard, par-3 17th. While the green itself is large, you must navigate over a sea of sand to reach it. ($45-$75, purgatorygolf.com, 35 minutes from Carmel)
The article’s only image was of our 17th hole.
- America’s Top 50 Courses for Women 2011
- Top 50 Women’s Courses 2011: Golf for Women sadly closed its doors in 2008, but Golf Digest has added a section to their website that covers women’s interests. They selected Purgatory Golf Club as one of America’s Top 50 Courses For Women in March of this year. Here’s what they have to say about how they select the award winning courses: “In compiling America’s Top 50 Courses for Women, we considered nominations and evaluations by our panel of more than 100 female raters, but ultimately we ranked the universe of daily-fee and public courses on how well they met the woman-friendly criteria established by the editors. Among them: at least one tee less than 5,300 yards; at least two sets of tees with USGA Slope and Course Ratings for women, minimal forced carries from the forward tees, and run-up areas to most or all greens.”
- Be A Man – Three Over Par, Indianapolis Monthly, June, 2008.Indianapolis Monthly: By Daniel Comiskey, Tony Rehagen, and Michael Rubino. “When tee time means undulating greens, a cool breeze, and the perfect swing, it’s heaven on Earth, even if one Noblesville course is named Purgatory Golf Club. Purgatory offers challenges by way of 125 bunkers and a whopping 7,700 yards from the back tees.”
- The Golf Club as an Event Center, By John Dierdorf AIA, Design Inform Volume 2, Issue 1
- National publications continue to heap praise upon the county’s golf courses
- HomeTown TV
- Happy in Purgatory
- Co-owner gives golf course a woman’s touch, Indianapolis Business Journal, August 8, 2005
- Central Indiana Golf Courses Make Golf Digest List, Inside Indiana, the Inside Edge e-newsletter
- Travel, What makes a Woman’s Course? GFW Top 50 Courses for Women, Golf for Women, July 2005.
- Indiana’s Best Golf, Our readers pick their favorites, Indiana Business Magazine, April 2005.
- America’s Top 100 Greatest Golf Courses, Golf Digest, April 2005
- The Front Nine, U.S. golf courses with the most terrifying names, SI.com, March 3, 2005
- In Motion, Teeing Up, Noblesville is home to one of the “50 Best Courses for Women,” In Magazine, July 2004
- Indygolf.com fairway watch, June 9, 2004
- Beauty or the Beast?, Crain’s Chicago Business, April 5, 2004
- Purgatory in top 50 for women, Noblesville Daily Times, August 5, 2003
“Tired of playing courses named Pine This or Lake That? Here are 10 course names with a tad more creativity:- “Purgatory Golf Club
(Noblesville, IN)
The owner’s uncle is a priest who came out and blessed the course.” Golf Digest, September, 2003.
- “Purgatory Golf Club
- Benner: An Average Joe Hack’s 36 holes in Purgatory, Indianapolis Business Journal, August 11, 2003
- 50 Best Courses for Women, Golf for Women, July/August 2003
- Golfers who play smart can escape suffering at Purgatory, The Indianapolis Star, July 26, 2003
- The Mystery of Indy, Uncovering Indianapolis, The Midwest’s Most Hidden Golf Treasure, Great Lakes Golf, June 2003
- Best in State Ranking:2003-2004, Golf Digest, May 2003
- Golf course has expansion plans, Indianapolis Star, May 23, 2003
- Pro Tour, Wedging Your Bets, Indy Men’s Magazine, May 2003
- North-side courses dominate golf survey, Prairie View, Purgatory, The Fort score high with readers;Indianapolis Business Journal, Indiana Golf Course Guide, 2003.
- Course has old-style elements, Indianapolis Star, November 02, 2002
- Purgatory Golf Club, A Superb Golfing Experience; GolfOhio.com, Summer 2002
- Beyond Bethpage, Taking the Open to public venues is a worthy goal–and there are plenty of worthy candidates; Golf Magazine, June 2002
- Indy Tracks; Golf Magazine, June 2002
- This Idea Will Fly, PGA Magazine, March 2002
- New and Tough, The latest additions to Indiana’s list of most-challenging golf courses, Indiana Business Magazine, April 2002
- Living in Purgatory, The Path Less Traveled, The Herald Bulletin, September 17, 2001.
- Trapped in Purgatory, The Hoosier Times, Sunday, August 26, 2001.
- The longest yards, It’s time to take it back to the tips; Golf Digest, August 2001
- Greens of Envy, Hamilton County’s Top-Notch Course Attract Golfers Galore, Indianapolis Monthly, June 2001
- Travel Digest, News you can use for trips near and far, Now playing…Slice of heaven, despite its name; Golf Digest, June 2001
- Pick your difficulty at Purgatory, Indianapolis Star, May 17, 2001
- New Midwest Courses, Golf Chicago, April 2001
- Golf pro poll reveals the area’s best and most challenging, 2001 Indiana Golf Course Guide, A special supplement to Indianapolis Business Journal and Indiana Lawyer
- 2001 Indiana Golf Guide, Michigan Golfer Magazine, March/April 2001
- Longest course in the East debuts in Hoosier state, Golf Course News, February 2001
- Circuit Breakers, Golf World, January 19, 2001
- New and Coming Soon A rundown of hot local courses and new arrivals for 1999, IBJ Corp. Magazine 1999 Indiana Golf Guide
- Purgatory Provides challenge for golfers, Chronicle Tribune, Marion Ind., Sunday August 20, 2000
- Purgatory looks to enlighten golfers, Noblesville Daily Ledger, Noblesville Ind., May 16, 2003