The Landings at Spirit Golf Club

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The Landings at Spirit Golf Club is adjacent to the Spirit of St. Louis Airport. In fact, you are able to get a front row seat for many take offs and landings (hence the name of the course) of private jets while playing the front nine. That’s worth the price of admission (green fees) alone. Pair that up with a well-designed and maintained golf course and you have a fun golf experience.

Since the land is flat, the course designer used the best tool available besides his/her creative mind . . . a bulldozer. The finished product is a well-sculpted golf course with a plethora of mounds, interesting bunkers, clumps of ornamental grasses and undulating greens. Two of the greens service four separate holes. While the zoysia fairways are somewhat narrow, the ample roughs are not too punitive; you just cannot spray the ball too erratically, otherwise you will lose your ball in the very thick natural Missouri grasses adjacent to most holes. When you play The Landings you will notice that there are no water hazards. Any guesses why? I had no idea until the Director of Golf Operations, Paul Gerson, explained it to me. Since the course is next to a major airport, water hazards are not allowed because they attract birds. And, as Chesley Burnett “Sully” Sullenberger III can attest, birds are bad, very bad for airplanes.

All in all, the The Landings is a great course and well worth the drive to west St. Louis county. You’re welcome.