Nashville Golf & Athletic Club

The NGAC course, featuring a breath-taking panorama of the beautiful countryside and hills of Tennessee, represents a lovely series of opportunities for today's golfers who cross the scene shouldering steel-shafted woods and irons instead of muskets and arrows. The flexibility of the challenge is apparent. Each of the bent-grass greens was designed specifically for the hole in play. No two putting surfaces or contours are similar. Through the placement of four sets of tees, the course can be an entertaining 6,340-yard "member trip" (5,121 yards for women members) or stretched to a demanding 7,440 yards in which the sleeping giant is awakened and all 76 bunkers figure prominently in the par 72 journey. The thrill of a well-struck shot is rewarded. The poorly-played stroke is costly. But, in either case, replaying the round is enhanced by the time-honored atmosphere of the game with the clubhouse surroundings in the tradition of the "Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers". The m