Welcome to Turkey Creek Golf Club - A facility of the Lake County Parks
6400 Harrison Street - Merrillville, Indiana 46410
Turkey Creek Golf
Course GPS coordinates: 41.502877,-87.345754
Exit I-65 west at 61st Avenue to
Harrison Street, then travel south for 1/4 mile to the golf course.
Turkey Creek Pro Shop - 980-5170 (for tee times). Required for weekends.
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Par: 70 (men); 79 (women)
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Yardage: Men's: 6,156. Women's: 5,812
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Course Rating: 69
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Slope Rating: 118
Turkey Creek Golf Course, 6400 Harrison St. in Merrillville opens for the season in April (weather permitting). This course include 18 challenging holes, several water hazards, sand traps, a clubhouse, pro shop, and banquet facilities that seat up to 250 people
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Call 219-980-5170 to reserve tee times and for course information. Tee times are required weekend and holiday mornings. No metal golf spikes permitted. MEMBERSHIPS vary by category.
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Call 219-887-3550 for banquet reservations.
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for Turkey Creek golfing fees
BANQUET ON THE GREEN
Turkey Creek Banquet Facility and full service bar.
Phone - 219-887-3550 for banquet information.
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WELCOME TO TURKEY CREEK GOLF COURSE
When
Turkey Creek Golf Course was added to the Lake County Park system in 1977,
there was lots of work to be done. The
old pro shop was razed and a new maintenance building constructed.
The park department cleaned up the area through landscaping and
instituting an extensive turf care program.
It was dedicated as a Lake County Park on June 23, 1978.
Over
the years the park department has worked to make Turkey Creek the best
possible public golfing experience while increasing revenues through the
provision of banquet and concession facilities, increased rounds, and
exposure of the sport to new audiences.
Banquet
on the Green overlooking Turkey Creek Golf Course is a popular hall for
wedding dinners and other celebrations. Seating up to 250 people, it
features a dance floor and adjoining full service bar.
If
it were up to Chris Cioroianu, general manager and grounds superintendent of
Turkey Creek Golf Course since 1989, he’d tell people to “Try Turkey
Creek again, for the first time, and see what you’ve been missing.”
The new irrigation system, as well as two large ponds, was added to
the course in 2003. The fill
from digging the ponds was used to raise the number17 fairway and create new
tees for holes 17 and three. Cioroianu
says the new irrigation system allows the course to be watered “wall to
wall” so to speak. “The old
system was a single row that watered from the middle of the fairway.
This new double row system permits us to water the entire course,
including the rough.”
“We’re
also excited about adding a set of forward tees.
The forward tees are popular with the growing senior citizens’
population, women, and junior golfers. This
new set of tees allows play from either the traditional white ones or the
new red ones. Eventually we’d
like to add a set of golden tees that would be placed between the existing
sets,” says Cioroianu. Lest
you think that tee placement is arbitrary, consider that water, in the form
on the creek not the irrigation system, comes into play on 12 of the 18
holes when you play from the white tees.
Playing from the forward ones takes water out of play on six of these
holes. “It’s still a
challenging course, but it permits people who don’t drive as far to play a
different strategy,” says Cioroianu
Cioroianu
describes the course as an oasis in the middle of the neighborhood.
He believes that if people haven’t golfed at Turkey Creek for a few
years, they really don’t know how much the course has been improved, and
he isn’t the only one that gives it high marks.
The 6,100 yard course was recently voted the best golf course in the
2003 Post Tribune Neighbors Choice.
Dust off those clubs and give Turkey Creek a try – Again, for the first time.