Chattanooga

Highlights at Chattanooga include the right doglegged par four 2nd, the run of riverside holes from the par five 7th to the par three 9th, short par fours at the 11th and 17th, and the par three closing hole where the home green sits adjacent to the recently renovated clubhouse.

Bill Bergin kindly supplied this exclusive comment regarding the new millennium renovation work carried out on the course:

“The club asked me to restore their golf course to what would feel like a 1920s Donald Ross course. It was not a pure restoration. We used an aerial from the 1940s to gather some information and then we modelled our bunker style after Worchester CC and Interlachen CC. We rebuilt all greens and bunkers, re-grassed all fairways and added numerous tees.

It was a major renovation with nothing of importance left untouched. The course was lengthened by about 300 yards from the back tees and shortened by about the same amount from the forward tees.

The course is only about 6700 yards long, but it has terrific yardage diversity. We have two par fours under 325 yards and four over 450 yards. We have a 128-yard par three and a 222-yarder.

The short 17th is a unique hole, playing over an old logging pit, and we have four holes playing along the Tennessee River. All of my courses ebb and flow between challenges and opportunities and Chattanooga is a perfect example of that philosophy.

Every time you play the course it feels and plays a bit differently.”