In an unrelenting search for the world’s finest golf courses, Access Software has discovered a true bluegrass beauty. Draped over the hills and streams of Louisville is the rippled jade blanket of Valhalla, site of the 1996 PGA Championship. The Valhalla Golf Club dream began in 1980 when the visionary Gahm family commissioned Jack Nicklaus to design a golf experience equal in beauty, strategic quality, and condition to the great golf courses of the world. Nicklaus responded with a unique combination of Scottish-style links for the front nine holes and a traditional back nine adorned with maple and sycamore trees, limestone rock formations and gentle streams.

Nicklaus put a refreshing wrinkle in golf course conventions by creating par fours that would require thought and shotmaking precision, not power. In 1986 members were charmed and masters were challenged as Valhalla opened for play and began its rapid ascension to the No. 1 ranking in Kentucky.

The decision to host the 1996 PGA Championship at Valhalla secured its place among the finest golf courses of the world. According to Norse mythology, Valhalla was a heaven for heroes. Now through Links LS technology your heroic drives can soar over Valhalla vistas with this world-class addition to the Links LS Championship Course series.