Located in West Lafayette IN on the campus of Purdue University the Kampen Course is an exciting layout designed and built by Pete Dye along with Purdue students and course superintendent Jim Scott and staff The Kampen Course opened to the public in June of 1998 and has since earned acclaim as one of Indiana s premier public courses as well as one of the nation s leading collegiate golf courses The Kampen Course also acts as a living research area for Purdue students with a surrounding natural celery bog and with environmentally sensitive created wetlands Pete Dye s characteristics are shown in the large greens with mild undulation and subtle breaks along with thick bluegrass rough and fescue waste areas which while varying in size tend to be accommodating The course has been the host site for the Men s and Women s Big Ten Golf Championships 2003 NCAA Women s Golf Championships 2004 NCAA Men s Golf Central Regional Championships and will host the 2008 NCAA Men s Golf Championships The Ackerman Hills Course features narrow fairways lined with large mature trees that provide beautiful blossoms in the spring and brilliant foliage in the fall The terrain is hilly and the medium sized greens are sloped and guarded by at least one sand bunker The Purdue Men s Golf Team won its first championship on the course in 1961 and Jack Nickalus was the medalist the same year Larry Packard redesigned the Ackerman Hills Course in 1968 and agronomical improvements were made in 1995 by course superintendent Jim Scott