Honors Course

Honors Course
Club information
Coordinates35°05′12″N 85°02′41″W / 35.0867°N 85.0446°W / 35.0867; -85.0446
Locationnear Ooltewah, Tennessee, U.S.
Established1983
TypePrivate
Total holes18
Events hosted1991 U.S. Amateur
1994 Curtis Cup
1996 NCAA Div. I C'ship
2005 U.S. Mid-Amateur
2010 NCAA Div. I C'ship
Websitewww.honorscourse.net/Home.aspx
Designed byPete Dye
Par72
Length7,400 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.

  1. ^ "Links Magazine: The Honors Course". Archived from the original on 2014-10-11.
  2. ^ "Golf Digest Top 100 Golf Courses".