While home visiting my mother and family and on the heals of playing perhaps my favorite course that I play regularly (at least yearly) and on which I grew up, Springfield Country Club, I had the pleasure of take a short drive down to Dayton to play another local Ross design Miami Valley Golf Club the following day. Much has been said about SCC here and I would love to add more, but, I haven't been able to find anything in previous threads about MVGC.
MVGC hosted the 1931 Western Open and 1957 PGA Championship, the last held as a match play event. It sits in a declining part northwest Dayton and has lost a little luster, but it is an ideal membership if you like no tee times, a very enjoyable walk, and a superb routing which uses every little feature beautifully on the mildly sloping lot with lots of ridges and a few streams throughout. The stately clubhouse seems to be much more than the club may need at this point but it is a stunning building that sits proudly and gives the place that sense of something grander.
I thought the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 16th, & 18th were all excellent golf holes that used the terrain perfectly to create interest and strategy. Every other hole was solid with perhaps the long 3rd being the only really bland hole. The par-4 holes have lots of shape to them in terms of doglegs and variety in length - the short 4th, 12th, and 18th all unique. The one-shotters are interesting, heading in three different directions with the 13th from knob to knob the best. The greens and greensites are old school - they look benign but there are places you cannot miss. I loved it.
Who has played MVGC and what is your take? Is it underappreciated?