Zanesville Country Club is a very sporty golf course. The design is attributed to Chick Evans, the great amateur, but I don't know if that was some sort of marketing ploy or not. The best part of the course comes early in the round. After a relatively mundane dogleg right par five, the course transitions into a river valley with some very good holes (#2-somewhat of a cape hole with a creek running down the right side, #4- a nice right to left par four with a downhill tee shot to and a pretty interesting green, #5- a longish par three that plays decidedly uphill). The course is situated on a plateau with the river valley. The majority of the routing is over the plateau and the holes there are solid but not spectacular. The river valley comes into play on holes 2 through 4. The back nine is good but the best hole may be the last...an uphill par three of about 150 yards with a green canted from back to front. In fact the four par threes are very good here. It is well worth a play and flies a bit below the radar. Not quite in the same league as the best small town club in Ohio...Springfield, but few clubs are.