Mossy Oak

Mossy Oak is the first US course from the design stable of Gil Hanse since his Rio Olympic Golf Course wooed the crowds and the professionals in 2016 and it now serves as the home course for Mississippi State University’s golf teams.

The minimalist layout is an engaging and strategic walking course that’s generously routed across rolling pastureland where native grasses and occasional oak trees work together simply and harmoniously. From the 6th green you can see all eighteen flags at Mossy Oak as there are only nineteen trees on the property.

Many will be familiar with Mossy Oak, the camouflage and outdoor lifestyle company, and this public access course of the same name, which opened for play in the fall of 2016, is the result of a brave collaboration between the owner, George Bryan and the West Point apparel founder, Toxey Haas.

The club moniker is “Nature’s Golf” and it’s plain to see why. The layout looks and feels just like a lie-of-the-land course from a bygone era. Tees and greens are positioned in close proximity to each other and most importantly Mossy Oak plays firm and fast.

Bunkering often makes or breaks a course, and here at Mossy Oak the traps are undeniably top quality and reminiscent of the world-class bunkers found in abundance across Melbourne’s Sandbelt. Doctor Alister MacKenzie would be proud – please take a bow Mr Hanse.