Blog

Top of the List: Private Golf Courses

This week’s Charlotte Business Journal lists Area Private Golf Courses, ranked by U.S. Golf Association men’s slope rating. The U.S.G.A. assigns slope ratings to show the relative difficulty of a course for the average player compared with the difficulty for an expert player. Firethorne Country Club tops the list again this year, with a slope rating of 147. Firethorne is now owned by its lender, Textron Financial Corp., after a December auction failed to produce a new owner. The course is managed by Heritage Golf Group.

Here are the Area’s Toughest Private Golf Courses:

1. Firethorne Country Club.

2. (tie) NorthStone Country Club.

3. (tie) The Palisades Golf and Country Club.

4. Charlotte Country Club.

5. (tie) River Run Country Club.

5. (tie) The Point Lake and Golf Club.

For the rest of the Top Private Golf Courses, including slope and course ratings for men and women, pro yardage and the names of the courses’ general managers and golf professionals, see the May 6 print edition of the Charlotte Business Journal. The full list contains 28 courses in the region, including Quail Hollow Club, host of the Wells Fargo Championship.

Source: Charlotte Business Journal (5/6/2011)