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1993 and 1995
The name outlives the form: The 1990s added two more Fort Wayne courses with "club" in the name and no membership at the door, and they belong in this record precisely to mark the boundary. Autumn Ridge Golf Club, at 11420 Old Auburn Road on the city's north side, opened in 1993, designed by Ernie Schrock — 7,103 yards, water in play on fifteen holes, a four-star rating in Golf Digest's places-to-play rankings as the Journal Gazette's directory reported it. The Gazette's directory lists its professional as running "the public course": Autumn Ridge is a daily-fee course, whatever memberships and season passes it may sell. Chestnut Hills Golf Club, at 11502 Illinois Road on the southwest side, opened to the public in 1995 on what had been Indiana farmland — a "Zoeller Signature Course," designed by the architect Clyde B. Johnston with Indiana's own Fuzzy Zoeller, its fairways crossed by streams. Neither course has a clubhouse door that closes to the public. Their place in this section is as the era's verdict: by the 1990s a Fort Wayne golf course could borrow the country club's name, architecture, and ambitions, and sell them by the day.
Sources:
- FortWayne.com (Journal Gazette) golf course directory — Autumn Ridge, 11420 Old Auburn Road, designed by Ernie Schrock, opened 1993, a public course; Chestnut Hills, 11502 Illinois Road, designed by Fuzzy Zoeller, built 1995.
- GolfNow and ForeTee course records — Chestnut Hills a daily-fee course open to the public, designed by Clyde B. Johnston and Fuzzy Zoeller, opened 1995, built on former farmland; Autumn Ridge public, Ernie Schrock, 1993.