Kenny Rapier Golf Course at My Old Kentucky Home State Park

Fairways are open for the most part. The greens are challenging. I’m a beginner level golfer, and this course was perfect not too easy or not too hard.I will definitely come back, and play again.

Beautiful course and excellent greens. There are three Par 5’s, Eleven par 4’s and four par 3’s. course par is 71. I would like to see another par 5 but overall it is a great course.

Sidenote: Holed out on the 9th hole from about 30 yards out! Fun round!

This is a great diverse track with wide and narrow fairways, flat and rolling greens, left and right doglegs, creeks and ponds, short and deep rough. One rarity - there are only 3 tee boxes and they are designated as 1, 2 & 3.

Conditions were ideal, from weather, staff and tee boxes to fairways and greens. There is an occasional need for caution as a few front fairways run side by side .

Pace of play was slow. We were a twosome following a single following a threesome. Why the threesome wouldn't let the single play through was a mystery. Several tee shots required a 5 to 10 minute wait as we tried to make out whether the single in front of us was in play.

We made the turn with a decent first time score until 3 hilly holes on the back 9 brought in blind fairway shots, forced carries over creeks to uphill greens and sloping pin placements. Boom went the scorecard.

Ducks, geese, birds and rabbits were the only wildlife seen until our long cartpath ride from the 17th green to the 18th tee crossed paths with a doe and her two fawns (see photo).

While the course is challenging we enjoyed our day and hope to play MOKH again soon.

Wow! So many improvements over years past. Really worked hard to get this great local course back in to playing condition. Greens are vastly improved and reseeded with many of them rolling true and challenging. Traps all have great sand and are well groomed. Fairways are in excellent condition and the rough was just right. Great job to the superintendent for the upgrades and care put back in to this course! Highly recommended!

I wish I could find time to play this course as I truly enjoy playing it. It is a good test of golf, but open enough for golfers of any ability to play. Play was slow today, but it was a perfect day for golf and the course was packed. Encourage anyone to give this beautiful and well kept course a try. Was a little surprised at the slow speed of the greens which took a few holes to adjust to, but overall was just a great day on the course.

The fairways are in bad shape. The greens are in average shape. The course has a good layout. It just needs a little TLC.
Also, I was charged more than what golf now said the greens fee would be. That needs to be straightened out.

I played this course several times in 2020, course was in fine condition every round I played, now, not so much.

I usually don’t write reviews, but I thought I should try.
Honestly the course should not have been open, the fairways are mud, literally no grass, tee boxes are the same and the greens are very slow and bumpy, however the carts were nice.

The course is a beautiful layout, but the course condition is terrible. The KY State Park system is the best in the nation, but this was a letdown.

Back nine has much more elevation and is generally more picturesque. Fairways are Bermuda, so fairway was brown in late March. I imagine this golf course is much prettier come summer. I also loved the carillion playing my Old Kentucky Home on loop. Also be sure to stop at Heaven Hill Distillery next door!