Among public-access courses to play on a Columbus, Ohio golf vacation, nothing beats the Longaberger Golf Club in Nashport. Located an hour east of Columbus, Longaberger is a plush, upscale links set on 400 acres of rolling, rural countryside.

If you can get on the private Muirfield Village Golf Club during your Columbus, Ohio golf vacation, by all means, do it. Jack Nicklaus' homage to Augusta National is worth any finagling and groveling you have to do.

Central Ohio’s Newest Cook Classic

You had to know there was very little chance that the brand new Golf Club at the NorthStar Golf Resort in Sunbury would have the traditional blue and gold tee markers once Buckeye golf legend John Cook and his father Jim got involved. So don’t be surprised when you see Scarlet and Gray tees when you go visit this Robert Weiler Company development located within 15 minutes of the I-270 loop, just off I-71 in Delaware County.

Like the tees with a familiar theme, the Cooks’ northside encore to their enormously popular Cooks Creek Golf Club in North Bloomfield, south of Columbus on US 23, figures to be similar in its playability, a fun challenge for golfers at any level of play, with an extra test for those who aspire to play at the highest levels. The “TOUR” tees at NorthStar will stretch out to nearly 7,500 yards, but those Scarlet (6700-yards) and Gray (6100-plus yards) tees will find much more enjoyable play from most, even those who venture down from that state up north