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Asheville Golf Courses |
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The mountains around Asheville with their scenic beauty and pleasant climate year-round provide a magnificent setting for a game of golf at one of the area's many golf courses and country clubs. But the primary attractions to mountain golf are lush fairways, sprawling bent grass greens, cool breezes and a gently undulating terrain.
The Asheville region boasts over twenty championship golf courses that offer challenging mountain golf. In addition, there are over forty resort, municipal and daily-play courses offering the same challenge of the mountain terrain.
Four distinct seasons of play are a highlight of mountain golf. Spring play is popular from late March through May with cool temperatures and the bright colors of spring flowers. Summer offers cooler mountain temperatures than the rest of the humid southern summer, while autumn provides a spectacular display of leaves on the mountain slopes amid warm, sunny days. Winters are the greatest surprise since snows rarely cover the courses for more than a few days and the winter sun often brings daytime temperatures into the 40s and 50s.
May 17-19, 2013: Friends of Mission Charity Classic Professional Golf Tournament
Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) comes to Asheville! Mission Foundation will sponsor the Friends of Mission Charity Classic, a new tournament on the 2013 Symetra Tour — Road to the LPGA. It will be held from Friday, May 17 through Sunday, May 19, at the Country Club of Asheville in Asheville, NC. The Friends of Mission Charity Classic will feature a field of professional women golfers from around the world competing for a total purse of $100,000. Proceeds from the Friends of Mission Charity Classic will directly benefit Mission Women’s Health. Mission Women’s Health provides women of Western North Carolina with all the necessary tools to keep them healthy through all the stages of life with specific services with a range of specialties and award-winning programs.
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| Featured Public Asheville Area Golf Courses |
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High Hampton Inn Golf Club
Each of the 18 holes on this mountain course near Cashiers is a new scenic experience. Lined by towering pines, hemlocks and mountain laurel and surrounded by mountain peaks, all tees, fairways and greens are as beautiful as they are challenging. 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.
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Reems Creek Golf Club
Designed by Hawtree & Son of Oxford, England, the course offers a Scottish Highland look with its rolling terrain, deep and large knolls which bisect the beautifully manicured tees, fairways and greens. This secluded setting which captures the splendor and rustic beauty of the North Carolina mountains"Places to Play" rating of 4 stars. Tee times are taken 30 days in advance. Clubhouse, restaurant, driving range, putting green, and rentals.
Located 8 miles north of downtown Asheville near Weaverville.
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Asheville Municipal Golf Course
The 18-hole golf course designed by Hall of Fame Golf Architect, Donald Ross opened for play in 1927. As in all of Ross's courses, it was designed to be challenging as well as fun. The Par 36 front nine, measuring 3,246 yards from the back tees, features a flat, wide-open course allowing the use of a driver on every hole. The 3,194-yard back nine has narrow fairways and also plays to a Par 36. Accuracy instead of distance is required for the best score on the back nine. The course rating form the white tees is 69.0, and from the blue tees it is 71.1.Clubhouse, putting green, pro shop, and rentals.
Located 4 miles from downtown.
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Grove Park Inn
Discover the course that Golfweek magazine included in its 2005 “America’s Best” listings and Golf Digest named in 2004 as “one of the ten best courses in the United States that is 100 years old or more.” Designed by the legendary Donald Ross, this is a shot-maker’s course, emphasizing accuracy over power in its 6,720 yard, par 70 layout. From beneath the crest of Sunset Mountain, the players' ascent from the somewhat flat, yet undulating front nine to the gentle slopes and sometime steep inclines and descents of the back nine brings with it spectacular views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Pro shop, private lessons, rentals, restaurants, putting green
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Cullasaja Club
Cullasaja Club's golf course in Highlands was originally designed by the great Arnold Palmer to highlight the winding Cullasaja River as well as other natural mountain vistas. The private course in a premier golf community 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. The spectacular mountain views, dramatic rock formations and the tumbling Cullasaja River are all wonderful distractions to your game.
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More Asheville Area Public Golf Courses in Western North Carolina
High Vista Country Club
18 holes over 6,935 yards with a par of 72
Arden
12 miles from center of Asheville.
Broadmoor Golf Links
18 holes over 6,921 yards with a par of 72
Fletcher
12 miles from center of Asheville.
Black Mountain Golf Course
18 holes over 6,215 yards with a par of 71 (Municipal)
Black Mountain
13 miles from center of Asheville.
Springdale Country Club
18 holes over 6,812 yards with a par of 72
Canton
18 miles from center of Asheville.
Etowah Valley Golf Club
Three nine hole courses allow you to play a variety of 18 hole combinations
Etowah
19 miles from center of Asheville.
Waynesville Inn Golf Resort
This hidden Donald Ross designed golf gem near Asheville has three outstanding nine-hole layouts – Carolina, Dogwood and Blue Ridge – that provide unlimited enjoyment for all skill levels.
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Great Smoky Mountains Golf Association
This 32-page, free guide contains information about 25 courses, country clubs and resorts in the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains area.
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First Tee Mountain Golf
Custom packages available for individuals or groups. Choose from first-class accommodations and 23 championship courses.
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