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The Lookout Mountain Golf Club features a beautiful 18 hole
layout that is as breathtaking as it is challenging. From
the first shot, you are rarely away from spectacular views
of the valley and hills to the east and south. The course is
a challenge for the accomplished player and fair to the
novice. Without any appreciable water hazards, the course’s
difficulty lies more in the errant shot into one of the
Raynor styled bunkers, the slope of the natural lay of the
land and the greens.
Lookout Mountain Golf Club was established in 1925 as
Fairyland Golf Club. It began as the dream of two
individuals who sought out one of golf’s master architects,
Seth Raynor, to design a course that would endure the
changes of both time and talents. Raynor’s untimely death
before the construction of the course and the onset of the
Depression prevented the original design from being
completed. A remarkably fortunate discovery of the great
architect’s drawings for the course led to the complete
restoration of the golf course in 1998 to Raynor’s original
plan. Today, the course is the focal point of a superlative
golf experience.
Seth Raynor’s plan for the course was that it be fashioned
after many of the great Scottish coastal links courses with
what he called “strategic design”. It took great imagination
and creativity to create a “links course on top of a
mountain”. Today, the course has the timeless features that
capture the very essence of strategically designed links
golf…shallow bunkers that have steep faces on the approach,
large greens with subtle undulations, and fairways that
demand imagination as the player has several options to
shape shots to conform to the natural mountain contours. It
is here that strategy overcomes power.
Playing golf at the Lookout Mountain Golf Club is always a
unique experience; whether participating in an organized
game or just walking out, hitting some balls, and teeing it
up. Some call it the best kept secret in golf, and playing
on a weekend without a tee time captures that experience.
Included in the club golf facilities are an exceptionally
maintained driving range with practice bunker; a large
practice green and a first class short game practice
facility, The Lew Oehmig Facility has a Raynor styled bunker
and its own practice green. |
