The Chisholm Trail Golf Course is a special course which offers a great challenge for all types of golfers. Just because of low fees, does not mean it's an ill-kept course. This course is not an average run of the mill golf course. The course was recognized and written up in Golf Course News, Golf World and Golf Digest. It received Honorable Mention as the Environmental Course of the Year. Factors of play include narrow fairways and small, undulating greens that are difficult to hit. Look out for the plum thickets on the second and sixteenth fairways and be prepared for the effects of a contentious wind.

The Sand Hills are a range of hills from southern Nebraska through Kansas to northern Oklahoma, on a line approximately through Manhattan and El Dorado, Kansas. These hills contain some of the best prairie grasses still existing in the United States. These grasses are of the shorter types which reach a height of two feet or so.

A Look Back Thirty Years or More -

SUNSET VIEW OF A HORSE IN PASTURELAND THAT ONCE WAS TALLGRASS PRAIRIE IN WABAUNSEE COUNTY KANSAS, NEAR MANHATTAN, IN THE HEART OF THE FLINT HILLS REGION. IN 1975, THE COUNTY WAS ONE OF THE SITES UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR A TALLGRASS PRAIRIE NATIONAL PARK. THERE WAS A BILL IN CONGRESS FOR SUCH A PARK, BUT IT FACED OPPOSITION AND AT THE TIME THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, THE BILL HAD NOT BEEN REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE. Source: National Archives & Records Administration, ARC Identifier: 557186 - 01/1975. Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD.

Read more about the Chisholm Trail Golf Course in The Topeka Capital-Journal.