Thousand Hills Golf Resort in Branson, Missouri

BRANSON, Mo. -- Thousand Hills Golf Resort is a stunning course with all kinds of rock outcroppings, a mountain stream and very challenging greens. This is a course you'll think of instantly when you think of Ozark golf.

You might also be a bit star-struck. It's a popular spot for entertainers to tee it up before they go onstage at one of the dozens of theaters nearby.

Marty Haggard, Merle's son, plays there nearly every day before he performs his tribute concert to his dad. Shoji Tabuchi often gets in a round before his sequin-studded show.

But celebrity sightings or not, Thousand Hills, a quirky, par-64 course designed by Bob Cupp, is one you won't forget.

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Thousand Hills Golf Resort is in the Ozarks.

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Hills abound at Thousand Hills Golf Resort.

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Thousand Hills golf course - hole 8

The world on No. 8 at Thousand Hills tilts right, into a row of recessed bunkers.

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Thousand Hills Golf Resort - hole 1

The first hole at Thousand Hills Golf Resort includes a creek and a wall of bunkers, and that's just off the tee.

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Thousand Hills Golf Resort - hole 2

It's downhill at Thousand Hills to the green on the par-3 second hole.

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Thousand Hills GC - hole 3 green

The third green at Thousand Hills Golf Resort is a shelf between two walls.

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Thousand Hills GC -- no. 3 from the tee

It's a drop to the fairway on Thousand Hills' third hole, then a sharp rise to the green.

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Thousand Hills GC - hole 4

The infernal mountain stream shows up again in front of No. 4 at Thousand Hills Golf Resort.

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Thousand Hills golf course - hole 5

The fifth hole at Thousand Hills Golf Resort is another par 3, this one downhill to the green.

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Thousand Hills Golf Resort - hole 6

A couple of bunkers are plunked down in the middle of the uphill fairway at Thousand Hills Golf Resort.

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Thousand Hills GC - 7th hole

On No. 7 at Thousand Hills, water comes right up to the green that is steeply sloped.

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Thousand Hills GC in Branson

Another view of the first hole at Thousand Hills Golf Resort.

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