Christmas Lake Golf Course

About the club

There was a small town in Southern Indiana some 155 years ago that, believe it or not, did not have a name. Every time the residents came up with a recommendation, it seemed there was already a town in Indiana with that name. The 1852 Christmas Eve service had just concluded at the town’s little log church, which housed all of the town’s citizens. It was a great time for the final town meeting of the year. The only order of business that evening, which had been the frustrating case before, was to figure out a name for the town. The esteemed and popular Reverend Christian Wyttenbach presided over the meeting and declined on the suggestion of “Wyttenbach, Indiana.” It appeared the meeting would again end in frustration when a fierce wind blew the door open. As the residents rushed from the wood burning stove to the door, the adults fell silent, but the children came to life. In the picturesque December evening was a scene of magical snowflakes with a deep blue background and somewhere out of sight, a faint sound of sleigh bells filled the forest. The children immediately shouted in choir like fashion what all of the adults were thinking…”SANTA CLAUS!” The town’s name was set.