Chain-link fencing serves as backdrop for an artfully designed green. Taylor Glen is a curious place. And in golf, that is not always a bad thing. The course is the third opened by the Links Group, owned by local businessman Bob Taylor. Taylor designed Taylor Glen, and it was built at about the same time as Elks Run, a few miles north on Ohio 222.
Enough similarities exist to call the courses cousins.
Rare concrete cart paths completely circuit each course. The masonry and some of the bunkering at Taylor Glen suggest Elks Run. The hole markers on the tees at both courses are from identical materials. Taylor Glen checks in at a modest 5,716 yards and par-69, friendly numbers for that higher handicapper. But it's somewhat deceptive.