The Links at Heartland Crossing

There were a lot of weeds in the fairways. Greens were decent but could be better.

Around the greens were sand bunkers have been filled in needs more grass

Pros: Inside Staff was very friendly.
I played as a single so luckily I only had to spend 2 and a 1/2 hours at this dreadful place.

Cons: How much time ya got?
Course in terrible condition. They pulled off the unbelievable task of making the greens dreadfully slow yet impossible to hold! Even with a wedge! Honestly you'd be better served stopping at the local hardware store and picking up a sledgehammer to replace your putter. Yet the greens are so firm you don't need a divot tool. If it's a front pin (which 75% of them were that day) getting anywhere near the flag is not an option. Even with wedge in hand. 17 green was half dead! Now on to the bunkers...links course so plenty of bunkering yet no two bunkers the same. Some, plenty of sand and consistent, others, none.
I play to about a 2 hdcp and I don't think I've ever played a course that I've been so penalized hitting good shots.

Avoid this course until either they get a new greenskeeper or invest tons in maintenance or both.

As I said to a friend, a great motto for this place should be: "A great place to play if you live nearby and you're almost out of gas."

If Nick Price saw the state of his design, he'd have his name removed from the scorecard.

Very nice course. Lots of improvement in last year and more to come.

The course layout is one of the most fun and challenging in the central Indiana. Most of the fairways are infested with dandelions. The sand traps are half emptied. The greens and tee boxes are in good shape, but could be better. This course would be amazing if more time was spent on maintenance. Staff were friendly and the price is right.

Course used to be nice to play at, but grounds and conditions are horrible now. Won't go back until moderate improvements have been made, at least.

I really want this course to be better. Love the layout. Has some very unique fun holes. But, the Driving range is full of weeds and had not been cut recently. Greens were shaggy and extremely slow. New sand being put in is extremely hard and very shallow. Lots of weeds in rough and some in fairway. Of the courses I've played this spring, it is by far in the poorest condition. Only redeeming factor was it was $27.

The length of this course really suits my game. The staff is super friendly.

Well maintained even through winter, it's a beautiful course, but not for the faint of heart.

I don't think I've ever seen so many greenside and fairway bunkers outside of Myrtle Beach, SC courses.

Makes use of a pretty good mixture of risk-reward, target holes w/ straight-up "greenlight" holes.

This is the best shape that I have seen this course in in a long time and looks really good the bunkers on playable .oh winter doesn't move in to quick like players tell after Christmas

I found the course in better shape this fall than this past summer.. Looks like some improvements are in the works. The course is fun yet challenging.. I only ended up in 4 bunkers. The fairways, greens and bunkers were in great shape. I would encourage anyone in the Indy area to try this course out as you should have a great time..

Nov. 2, 75 degrees, immaculate greens, even the fairways were good (several bare spots, but hey, in November who cares?). They even had crews out blowing leaves off the greens and fairways. This is a links course, so playing off the tips is nuts unless you hit 350, but the Gold tees still give you 6500 yds, and the course is beautifully laid out. With Golf Now's Hot Deal, it was absolutely the best bargain ever!

I had a very enjoyable round.

Course was a little damp since it rained the day before. The layout is challenging and you have to plan your shots. I plan to do better when I play this course again. I was alone and tried to get paired with someone who had played there before. Instead, I got paired with a couple of guys who work for Allstate and we all had a blast learning our way around the course. Playing with those guys and having fun added to the adventure. Will definitely play it again.

This course needs a serious input of funds. I live on #7 and the bunkers they have taken out (and there are a lot of them) are still GUR. The bunker near the 7th green has been unplayable for over a year. We have greens like #17 that for all intents and purposes are so full of mold they are unplayable. The worst part of it all is that this is all due to poor planning. When Nick Price first designed the course and when it first opened it was a masterpiece. My love for this course is the reason I moved here. What the design did not take into account is that this is Indiana. The 6 foot deep bunkers become 6 foot deep pools during the winter and in the spring require repair. It is financially impossible to repair the bunkers every year. Subsequently each entity that purchased the course from bankruptcy took bunkers out. Now the course is a shell of what it was and essentially has become a muny. #SAD.

This course could honestly be one of the nicest in the state of Indiana and hopefully it will continue to get better, but it's in horrible shape and it isn't just because of fall approaching. The layout is top of the line, but maintence is a must on a course of this caliber. They need to market this course better and ask for donations or new ownership because this course could be a top golf retreat.

1st Green is absolutely gorgeous!!
after that it goes down hill.

Huge sand traps, although huge sand traps also need maintaining. 1 of the holes I was about 180 out and went for the green, ended up short and into the bunker. When the ball landed--HUGE splash!
Drain your bunkers!!
The day I played it had not rained for several HOT days.

Tee makers-- yes tee markers are usually moved prior to mowing the tee box. No one was mowing tee boxes on the entire course, Tee box markers-some were laying on the ground, some were standing,
SOME WERE MISSING! Just tee off from wherever you like??

Yardage markers? Yes where? There are some painted yardage markers on the cart path, but does you very little good when you're in the fairway and have no view of the markings on the cart path.

1st cut around the green-- some grass, mostly weeds

Grass around the bunkers-- 2' tall--if its part of the course design so be it, would be a 1st of a kind out of my 30 years of playing. If not part of the design, hire some teenagers after school and on the weekends to help cut your weeds.

Course design-- EXCELLENT makes you think about your next shot. Don't plan to play here and use your driver on all 4's and 5's!
Greens on the back 9 are fairly easy to read, true to what you are reading!!

Wide fairways on most holes. Some need definite aim to position yourself well for the next shot!!

Course Setting-- EXCELLENT nice quiet playing -- little artificial noise (road traffic-home owner mowing etc...)

A yardage book or some sort of course layout--better than the score card. If you have never played here, some good visuals would help immensely!!

This course has HUGE POTENTIAL if they would only get back to basics on basic course maintenance.

For the amount of money I paid, I am happy but not satisfied with this course. I am usually not this critical of a course, but some things were just too plainly obvious not to mention to other players. Hopefully someone from the staff will take notice and make appropriate changes there. Word of mouth is huge in today's golfing economy, it can be bad and hurt or it can be good and help your course out immensely!

For the future I will play other courses for the same amount of money that are considerably better!! UNTIL, I see or read of better conditions here.

This course was very good but recently getting worse.
I'm very sad not to play a round here anymore..

This is one of those places where you walk in the pro shop and the pros are hanging out in the back office. Not too many groups out there but there was also no marshall so it was a free for all. There were people bopping in and out in front of us which normally would be fine but the pace was already crummy so when some random single hops in front of you its kind of annoying. Only paid $20 but if they sold it low in hopes to get me back for a premium rate at a later date they failed miserably.

It had been 3 years since I had played this course and had very high reviews for this course. In fact told many of my friends about getting back to play this course again. There was a lot I didn't remember about this course like the front 9, but the back nine I remembered well.
My dissapointment came when the GPS's were no longer on the carts and we found it very hard to find yardage markers, especially on the back 9 leaving us guessing many times as to how many yardswe were out. We looked for yardage markers but could not spend to much time because of holding up players behind us.
Having said that I do love this course and do plan on coming back, especially at Golf Now price. I just hope this yardage issue is resolved and can be easily remedied even just by simply putting 200, 150 and 100 yard stakes out. At least then one can have a visual to go by. I wish the GPS's were still available though.