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Coordinates | 35°05′12″N 85°02′41″W / 35.0867°N 85.0446°W |
Location | near Ooltewah, Tennessee, U.S. |
Established | 1983 |
Type | Private |
Total holes | 18 |
Events hosted | 1991 U.S. Amateur 1994 Curtis Cup 1996 NCAA Div. I C'ship 2005 U.S. Mid-Amateur 2010 NCAA Div. I C'ship |
Website | www |
Designed by | Pete Dye |
Par | 72 |
Length | 7,400 yards |
The Honors Course is a privately owned golf course located near Ooltewah, Tennessee, just north of Chattanooga. The club was founded by Coca-Cola bottling heir Jack Lupton and designed by Pete Dye in 1983.[1] It has been the number one ranked course in the state, number twenty-eight on Golf Digest's list of the top one-hundred golf courses in America, and has been the site of amateur tournaments as the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Mid-Amateur, NCAA Championships, and U.S. Junior Championship.[2] Jack Lupton's main idea in founding The Honors Course was to create a place to honor amateur golf and amateur golfers. The course is located in an unincorporated area of Hamilton County, Tennessee, just north of the unincorporated community of Ooltewah.