Area Golf & Country Clubs
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Highlands
Cullasaja Club
(828) 526-3590 (Private Club & Course)
Originally designed by Arnold Palmer, our golf course highlights the area's natural mountain vistas, Lake Ravenel, and the winding and wandering route of the Cullasaja River. Renowned golf course architect, Mike Riley, oversaw a $3 million course renovation, and continues to incorporate state-of-the-art game enhancements. The golf course is not only beautiful, but also fun to play for golfers of all levels. The course varies in its beauty and complexity - from challenging downhill tee shots to lake-wide traverses, from tree-lined fairways to rising garnet rock borders and undulating greens. www.cullasajaclub.org
Highlands Country Club
(828) 526-2184 (Private Club & Course)
The 18-hole Highlands course features 6,255 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 70 . The course rating is 71.2 and it has a slope rating of 130 on Bent grass. Designed by Donald Ross, the Highlands golf course opened in 1928.
Highlands Falls Country Club
(828) 526-2189 (Private Club & Course)
Highlands Falls Country Club features a championship 18-hole, par 70 golf course with greens built to USGA specifications. The course is maintained by a certified golf course superintendent and a staff of approximately 25 professionals working daily to maintain an impeccably groomed course. This 18-hole Joe Lee designed golf course includes a practice facility consisting of a par three practice hole, putting green, chipping green and driving range making the course in reality a 19-hole course. While the 19th hole is primarily used as a practice hole, should it become necessary to close a hole, #19 can be substituted for purposes of play. www.clubhfcc.com
Old Edwards Club at Highlands Cove
(866) 526-8008 (Private Club & Course)
The Tom Jackson sculpted course underwent extensive renovations in the first quarter of 2009 to become an architectural marvel that sits atop the Eastern Continental Divide. The front side of the course lulls you into a serene mountain valley of greenery and meandering streams. As you approach the turn, a 250 degree ascent delivers you to the 10th tee giving you the undeniable feeling of being on top of the world. Breathtaking only begins to describe the next three holes as you wrap your self around one of the highest ridges of golf on the east coast. A shear granite cliff along the right-hand side of number 18 awaits your final descent toward the clubhouse. www.oldedwardsinn.com
Wildcat Cliffs Country Club
(828) 526-2164 (Private Club & Course)
Wildcat Cliffs lies between Highlands and Cashiers, NC near the ridgeline of Whiteside, one of the oldest mountains in the world. Here exists a beautiful mountain atmosphere with green lush landscapes in the summer and the brilliant colors of changing leaves in the fall. Wildcat Cliffs has the best of golf...no tee times, highest elevations, coolest climate and a superbly maintained course that is challenging for all levels of play. This combined with the camaraderie and friendliness of club members make Wildcat Cliffs the place to spend your summers, your falls...your season of a lifetime. www.wildcatcliffscountryclub.com
Sky Valley Resort and Country Club
(Sky Valley, GA – 15 minutes from Highlands) (800) 437-2416 (Public Golf Course)
Orchestrated by renowned golf architect Bill Bergin, the centerpiece of the resort and country club is the spectacular 18-hole daily-fee Sky Valley golf course. Nestled in a valley surrounded by peaks soaring to over 4000 feet, the course is challenging for all skill levels, yet extremely playable and fun. Bergin’s 2007 redesign of the original Sky Valley course lengthened the course by nearly 500 yards and reduced par to 71. Incredibly, the new course route can be stretched to over 7000 yards from the back tees. A fifth set of tees provides even more options for play and the pristine 12-acre lake and restored mountain streams provide new water features for added strategy and aesthetics. www.skyvalley.com
Cashiers
High Hampton Inn & Country Club
(800) 334-2551 (Public Club & Course)
Each of the 18 holes on this mountain course is a new scenic experience. Designed by the late, eminent golf course architect, George W. Cobb, ASGCA, the course features bent grass greens and plays at 6,012 yards from the back tees. The par 3, 137-yard famed 8th "island” hole - upon which Golf Digest bestowed the title "One of America's Great Golf Holes" - is rivaled by 17 others, each one equally beautiful and equally challenging. In addition to the course, there are two putting greens and an excellent practice range. The tee area of the practice range is covered for protection from occasional rains. www.highhamptoninn.com
Mountaintop Golf and Lake Club
(828) 743-4758 (Private Club & Course)
Considered by many to be the finest golf course designer of modern times, Tom Fazio, a resident of neighboring Hendersonville, NC, has crafted a true masterpiece at Mountaintop. Mr. Fazio has spent many hours walking the hills and woodlands of Mountaintop to ensure the course flows seamlessly with the natural topography and takes full advantage of the challenges and beauty presented by Mountaintop's dramatic terrain, majestic hardwoods, natural springs and sweeping views. The result is a truly inspired Carolina mountain core-golf experience that deftly balances challenge and strategy with playability. Thus the course is capable of testing the game's best players while providing a fun, fair day of golf for higher-handicap players and families. www.mountaintopgolfclub.com
Trillium
(888) 464-3800 (Private Club & Course)
Trillium, a private community nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, offers your family a stunning blend of mountain, lake and golf course living. Inspired by the panoramic view of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Course designer Morris Hatalsky created an award-winning 18-hole championship course that meanders through mountain laurels and indigenous hardwoods, as the dramatic elevation changes bring fresh challenges at every hole. With Trillium’s unique Garden Golf course, lessons, clinics, and fully equipped pro shop, avid golfers will find everything they need for a full day of fun on the links. www.trilliumnc.com
Wade Hampton Golf Club
(828) 743-5465 (Private Club & Course)
The Club is located on North Carolina Highway 107 South, approximately 2.5 miles south of the intersection of North Carolina Highway 107 and North Carolina Highway 64 in Cashiers, North Carolina. The course, at an elevation of 3,650 ft., is named for General Wade Hampton III, a popular and respected gentleman who distinguished himself during the War Between the States. While maintaining a year round residence in South Carolina, General Hampton spent considerable time in Cashiers Valley and it was here he learned he had been named Governor of South Carolina in 1876. He went on to serve as a U.S. Senator and a Cabinet Member for President Cleveland. (Golf course designed by Tom Fazio) www.wadehamptongc.com
Sapphire
The Country Club of Sapphire Valley
(800) 675-0650 (Private Golf Course)
The heart of the Country Club of Sapphire Valley is the truly magnificent golf course that meanders through the backdrop of a mature hardwood forest and scenic mountains that provide for breath taking views and a natural setting. Every detail is devoted to providing members with an experience they will not forget. The golf course was originally designed by George Cobb and recently updated by Bill Bergin to maintain the original integrity of the design. The course sits on a level valley floor... unique for a "mountain" course... with views of the majestic mountains from every hole. www.ccsapphirevalley.org
Sapphire National Golf Club
(828) 743-1174 (Public Golf Course)
Mountain golf at its finest. Located on Highway 64 and surrounded by the beauty of the Sapphire-Cashiers-Highlands area, Sapphire National Golf Club features dramatic elevation changes, long range mountain views, and bent grass greens, tees and fairways. A $2.8 Million renovation was completed in May of 2008. Improvements included a complete new irrigation system, new cart paths, 400 additional yards, two completely redesigned holes, 24 additional sand bunkers with new white sand, 12 new tees, new golf carts and a complete new golf shop. www.sapphirenational.com