Shaker Run Golf Club

The rolling farmland northeast of Cincinnati provides an unlikely canvas for one of Ohio's most thoughtfully routed public tracks, where architect Arthur Hills carved dramatic elevation changes into what was once pastoral countryside. Each nine presents distinctly different challenges—the front side climbing through wooded corridors before the back nine opens into windswept meadowland that demands creativity around massive, sculpted bunkers. The par-3 17th alone justifies the drive, playing downhill to a peninsula green that separates pretenders from players.