Big Met Golf Course
Big Met Golf Course boasts the title of being Ohio's most-played golf course. Since opening in 1926, it has hosted an impressive 6,000,000 rounds of golf. The course is nestled into the Rock River Valley along gently rolling hills. One of the course's defining features is the dike that helps to hold back the Rocky River, which can be viewed from several holes.
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Grey Hawk Golf Club
Grey Hawk Golf Club is a challenging but playable course that is a Cleveland area favorite. It brings resort-quality golf to a remote location in LaGrange that is seemingly in the middle of nowhere. The rolling landscape is the ideal terrain for links-style golf.
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Hawthorne Valley Country Club
Hawthorne Valley Country Club in Solon is a Donald Ross design that is considered one of the best public golf courses in Ohio. Since opening in 1926, the course has undergone several improvements over the years that have built upon its longstanding reputation.
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Pine Valley/St. Andrews at Emerald Woods
Emerald Woods in Columbia Station boasts 45 holes of challenging championship golf. The holes are divided into five nines that are played in different 18-hole combinations. The Pine Valley/St. Andrews golf course is a tight layout that requires pinpoint accuracy. There are several tough holes where narrow alleys lead to small, subtly contoured greens. The back nine, St. Andrews, is just as tough with severe doglegs that will force you to lay-up.
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Little Mountain Country Club
Located just 35 minutes from Cleveland, Little Mountain Country Club in Concord is known throughout the area for its bunkers. Deep hardly begins to describe them and they border both the greensides and fairways.
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Manakiki Golf Course
Named after a native American word for maple forest, Manakiki Golf Course's defining feature is the abundance of maple trees that line the winding fairways. The course is a classic Donald Ross design. He incorporated a variety of challenges including tricky doglegs, water hazards, up-and-down holes, and two canyon holes.
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Sleepy Hollow Golf Course
Sleepy Hollow Golf Course is the top municipal course in the state and it is also ranked as one of the top 20 in the nation. Overlooking the Cuyahoga River Valley, the course is known for its scenery almost as much as its challenging layout. It has a traditional design with a classic "out-and-in" routing, with the incoming holes playing uphill into the wind, making them seem much longer than the indicated yardage.
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Audrey's/Heatherstone at Emerald Woods
The 18-hole Audrey's/Heatherstone at Emerald Woods in Columbia Station, OH is a public golf course that opened in 1967. Designed by Raymond McClain, Audrey's/Heatherstone at Emerald Woods measures 6612 yards from the longest tees and has a slope rating of 115 and a 70.
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Sweetbriar Golf & Pro Shop - Sweetbriar Course
Sweetbriar Golf Club is home to 36 holes of some of Ohio's most scenic golf. There are two 18-hole courses that sprawl across acres of natural wetlands and forests. Numerous lakes and ponds also dot the landscape. The Sweetbriar Course is the original course at the club. Built in the 1960s, the golf course has a traditional design that offers a fair amount of challenges.
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Sweetbriar Golf & Pro Shop - Legacy Course
Located in Avon Lake, Sweetbriar Golf Club boasts two scenic 18-hole courses that are routed through natural wetlands and forests. The front nine of the Legacy Course was built in 2002 and the back nine was added in 2007. The nines have different landscapes, creating a diverse set of holes that will have you using all the clubs in your bag.
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Fishing charters can help you pull steelhead or rainbow trout out of Rocky or Cuyahoga rivers or walleye, bass, perch, trout or salmon out of the "big water" of Lake Erie. More urban pursuits should start with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Designed by I.M. Pei, it sprawls over 150,000 square feet and seven stories and includes five theaters. How much is in there? A popular seller is a two-day pass.
Without question, Cleveland is a sports town, with the Indians, Browns and Cavaliers. It's also a former steel town reborn as a biotech and fuel cell center. It's home to the world-renown Cleveland Clinic and the Great Lakes Science Center. Case Western Reserve University has a lofty perch among research institutions, a far cry from its start in territory known as the Western Reserve of Connecticut. Drive through campus and enjoy its zany buildings that turn architecture on its head.
Cleveland is America's true melting pot as seen at the West Side Market and Little Italy. That diversity extends to its eateries, from Melt Bar and Grill, known for enormous and creative grilled cheese sandwiches, to Das Schnitzel Haus, Sokolowski's University Inn or Frank Sterle's Slovenian Country House (complete with polka nights). White Oaks offers classic fare: steak and chops, chased by creme brulee.
The area doesn't disappoint in the golf area, either. This is a city that prides itself in classic golf, from Riceland Golf Course which opened in 1922, to Manakiki Golf Club, a 1920s Donald Ross design where an industrialist's mansion serves as the clubhouse. It's a diverse course with two holes playing over a canyon. Sleepy Hollow is another Cleveland classic, laid atop and in ravines by designer Stanley Thompson in 1925. More than 60 bunkers and trees make the course a formidable foe from start to finish. For a modern flourish, try Little Mountain Country Club with its views of Lake Erie. Designed by Hurdzan-Fry, it makes the most of the rolling hills and woods the course meanders through. It tosses out challenges in the form of 80 bunkers, a large lake, waterfalls and Ellison Creek.
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