History

Idle Hour Club was established in 1912, making it one of the state’s oldest and most prestigious clubs. The property where the club now stands was a stock farm owned by R.H. Plant, whose interest was in raising trotters, not hitting a golf ball. He had one of the finest one-mile dirt tracks south of Louisville, Kentucky. Plant named his stock farm Idle Hour because he spent so many “idle hours” there. The remains of the track are still visible on the golf course today. Traces can be seen along the right of number six, in the fairway of number eleven and along the green through the woods along the rough on number 9.