Originally Posted by bigjim

Welcome to the board! If you're new to golf in the STL area, I'd suggest the following courses:

St. Ann (north of St. Charles Rock Road). Cheap, flat, short, no real real hard holes

Ruth Park (U City off of Bonhomme). A little hillier than St Ann but sometimes I've joined up with U City highschool golf team members for a round.

Columbia IL River Lakes (18 holes, across the river). Real flat (in the Mississippi flood plain between Columbia and the JB Bridge). Another one that's friendly to new golfers in that it's not real hard, and it's so flat it doesn't matter if you occasionally spray one way way left or right