Chattanooga Golf

[Minarets]

33 minutes ago, Hstead said:

AWcOBB is talking about the Ooltewah Club, that is where I play too.  

 

I read the first post and I have to disagree with one thing.  Chattanooga G&CC is easily the second best layout in my humble opinion.  The conditions are only surpassed by the Honors and I am not sure they are bette.  I have played both.  The Honors is one of my all time favorites but if I had to play one course every day it is Chattanooga.  The greens are insanely good year around.  The holes test every club in the bag from the back tee.  There is a reason it is ranked in the top 10 in the state.  I love the place.

I have never played it. I live in Nashville and am in Chattanooga for work quite often and my oldest is about to go to UTChatt so will be around even more.  Customers always want to eat at the Boathouse across the water so when I get here early I have ventured over to look at it (being a die hard golfer).  I have been asked to leave twice. lol.  I just pulled up both times to the edge of the parking lot looking back towards the boathouse and watched guys come in , presumably the ninth or 18th green to the right and had attendants drive up to ask if I was a member and before I could tell them beautiful place they asked me to leave.  I guess it’s an old money kind of place? 
 

very pretty tho.  

[Hstead]

56 minutes ago, Minarets said:

I have never played it. I live in Nashville and am in Chattanooga for work quite often and my oldest is about to go to UTChatt so will be around even more.  Customers always want to eat at the Boathouse across the water so when I get here early I have ventured over to look at it (being a die hard golfer).  I have been asked to leave twice. lol.  I just pulled up both times to the edge of the parking lot looking back towards the boathouse and watched guys come in , presumably the ninth or 18th green to the right and had attendants drive up to ask if I was a member and before I could tell them beautiful place they asked me to leave.  I guess it’s an old money kind of place? 
 

very pretty tho.  

Very old money kinda place and for sure the snobbiest club in town lol.  There are obviously some good guys there too and luckily I have made friends with one of them.  My expectations were high when I played it for the first time and they were far exceeded.  Same with the Honors.

[Minarets]

2 hours ago, Hstead said:

Very old money kinda place and for sure the snobbiest club in town lol.  There are obviously some good guys there too and luckily I have made friends with one of them.  My expectations were high when I played it for the first time and they were far exceeded.  Same with the Honors.

Never played Honors but have been on the grounds to buy a 3 wood once.  Used to have a customer that had an in there and promised to get me on and they went out of business and he moved out of town before I could ever take them up on that.  Place is hollowed ground for sure.   I think I drove past it about five times before I finally called someone and they told me where am I was supposed to go.  That damn natural gas tank next to the gate.  Definitely a low-key entrance. I’m sure the way they prefer.  
 

[AWcOBB]

10 hours ago, me05501 said:

 

Wild guess would be Windstone but I have no inside info. 

Windstone is now where I’m thinking of taking my membership. It is almost the exact same distance to both from where I live 

[AWcOBB]

14 hours ago, vandyfan said:

 

How walkable is the course? I personally WISH my club would charge for carts as our course is very easy to walk and I think they should incentivize walking as it is slightly better for conditioning of the course in my opinion. 

This is not that walkable, I walked it for over a year a few years back but the problem is too many holes with large distances between greens and tees. It’s easily a 7 to 8 mile walk.

[AWcOBB]

8 hours ago, Hstead said:

AWcOBB is talking about the Ooltewah Club, that is where I play too.  

 

I’m curious what the membership as a group thinks about this. I think the worst part is them charging for personal carts. That makes absolutely no sense to me and haven’t heard of that anywhere else. They take every chance they can to squeeze any money out of everyone they can every single time. And to say they aren’t increasing dues like they’re doing everyone a favor to only increase everything else is completely laughable. I’ve been a member for about 6/7 years and I’m just exhausted at this point.

[vandyfan]

Oh...I've played Ooltewah before for a McCallie event. No, no. That is not a walkable course. It has one of the oddest starts I have ever seen, you literally have to drive your cart (or walk) 500+ yards through a housing development to get to the range and/or first tee. Very confusing for someone who has never played there before and does not seem to encourage walking in the least unless you live in one of the houses fronting the first tee. Below I circled the clubhouse, the range and then the first tee. Almost 700 yds? Sheeeesh. Doesn't seem like Donald Ross laid this one out. 

 

 

[me05501]

24 minutes ago, vandyfan said:

Oh...I've played Ooltewah before for a McCallie event. No, no. That is not a walkable course. It has one of the oddest starts I have ever seen, you literally have to drive your cart (or walk) 500+ yards through a housing development to get to the range and/or first tee. Very confusing for someone who has never played there before and does not seem to encourage walking in the least unless you live in one of the houses fronting the first tee. Below I circled the clubhouse, the range and then the first tee. Almost 700 yds? Sheeeesh. Doesn't seem like Donald Ross laid this one out. 

 

 

 

 

True. It's a well-maintained course and has all the challenges you want, but walkable is one thing it isn't. 

I've always thought it would suck to live in one of the homes along the route players take from the clubhouse to the first tee. 

[ChattGolfer7]

On 3/5/2024 at 5:44 PM, Minarets said:

I have never played it. I live in Nashville and am in Chattanooga for work quite often and my oldest is about to go to UTChatt so will be around even more.  Customers always want to eat at the Boathouse across the water so when I get here early I have ventured over to look at it (being a die hard golfer).  I have been asked to leave twice. lol.  I just pulled up both times to the edge of the parking lot looking back towards the boathouse and watched guys come in , presumably the ninth or 18th green to the right and had attendants drive up to ask if I was a member and before I could tell them beautiful place they asked me to leave.  I guess it’s an old money kind of place? 
 

very pretty tho.  

Sorry you had a bad experience, but I assume you talked to one of the security officers or a cart attendant. We've recently had to step up security due to some recent trespassers on site.

On 3/5/2024 at 6:41 PM, Hstead said:

Very old money kinda place and for sure the snobbiest club in town lol.  There are obviously some good guys there too and luckily I have made friends with one of them.  My expectations were high when I played it for the first time and they were far exceeded.  Same with the Honors.

As for the membership... Like any "high-end" club, you're going to have a few bad apples but the core golf group is really solid. Walking is norm and there are a lot of great games on the weekends.