"It’s ideally suited for the kind of goofing-around golf that might include a two-man scramble in which you play your worst ball."

Twenty-eight panelists hopped on a bus and toured the Nebraska trail of great golf. No, it's not a setup for a joke.

Brad Klein writes about leading the Golfweek gang to several places, including the Prairie Club where they tested out the Horse Course after playing the Graham Marsh-designed Pines and the Tom Lehman-designed Dunes.

After some demanding golf on those two courses, we took a break (and a stiff drink or two each) for a simpler excursion on The Prairie Club’s Horse Course, a Gil Hanse-Geoff Shackelford collaboration. The scorecard for the day showed all of 732 yards, par-27 for the nine-hole loop. It’s ideally suited for the kind of goofing-around golf that might include a two-man scramble in which you play your worst ball. But with its shots across sandstone canyons, it’s also a harbinger of a third 18-hole course to come, and the land that Hanse has to work with for that one includes open prairie land and some dramatic play across the Snake River Canyon.