Belterra Golf Club

Overview: Belterra Golf Club is an 18-hole Tom Fazio resort course in Florence, Indiana, beside the Ohio River and the Belterra casino resort. The par-71 layout measures about 6,910 yards from the back tees and uses rolling landforms, lakes, wooded edges and more than 2,200 trees to create a course that feels shaped by its natural setting. Fazio’s routing alternates between broad fairway corridors and holes where water or bunkering narrows the preferred approach. The course is not simply a flat river-valley layout: construction created enough movement in the ground to give the round a varied sequence of lies and sightlines. Its identity comes from that contrast between the surrounding river country and the carefully formed golf landscape, with the resort setting providing a polished base for a strategically substantial round.

History: Belterra opened in 2001 as part of the development of the Belterra resort complex. Tom Fazio designed the course to highlight the natural surroundings, using the existing landscape and water features to create a resort course with a strong regional identity. Since opening, Belterra has been associated with casino-resort golf in the Ohio River valley and has developed a tournament-scale profile through its championship tees. The course continues to offer several tee configurations, allowing its par-71 routing to serve both resort play and more demanding competitive rounds. Its long-term character is defined by the relationship between Fazio’s shaped landforms and the natural river-country setting.

Did You Know? Belterra’s official description says the course winds through lakes and over 2,200 trees. That combination makes the tree canopy and water system structural parts of the design, not merely decorative features around the fairways.