Mallard Creek Golf Course (Columbia Station, OH)

Mallard Creek is a course that was designed with a financial formula. Wide fairways, big greens, and no sand traps equals more players on the course, more tee times, more money. 

My friends from UPS have memberships here, another financial stroke of genius. Buy a membership, and have access to three other courses. Don't worry that the other courses are mom n pop, five courses means the player has plenty of variety in his course selection. It's hard to argue this formula, and it's very popular. Several people who I consider hardcore golfers have invested in the Mallard Creek membership. 

There really is no strategy at Mallard Creek. It's the kind of place where drinking and golfing would be acceptable. I give it a 2 (below average). There is nothing here to recommend giving away ones hard earned money. That being said, Mallard Creek, just like Bob O Link down the street, another financial formula course, is very busy. People just want to swing the club, do it cheaply, and do it in a timely manner. And that is, as much as I dismiss it in this blog, a winning successful formula.