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    Colonial Country Club (South)

    Cordova, TN Private

    Overview

    Colonial Country Club’s South Course was the site of the old PGA Tour Danny Thomas Invitation (now the WGC FedEx St. Jude’s Invitational) until 1988 when it moved to TPC Southwind. It was the longest course on the circuit at the time, and is where Al Geiberger shot the PGA Tour’s first 59 in 1977. A Joe Finger design, the course opened just northeast of Memphis in 1972 and is distinguished by its numerous doglegs and well-bunkered greens. In 2023 the club hired Watermark Golf/Nathan Crace Design to initiate a “restor-vation” that honored the original Finger elements of the course while updating the infrastructure, turf and bunkers for contemporary players. The bunkers were also reshaped and repositioned, and the new yardage after the addition of several championship tees is now 7,630. The entire project came in at under $3 million, a remarkably low cost for the scope of the revisions.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 7630
    Slope 144
    Facility Type Private
    Year Opened 1972
    Designer Joseph S. Finger/Nathan Crace

    Awards

    Best Courses in Every State

    Ranking history:

    100 Greatest: Member America's 100 Greatest 1975-1981.

    Best in State: Top 5 in state 1977-1991, 2001-2003 & 2007, Top 10 in state 1995-1999 & 2009.
    2023-'24 ranking: 11th.
    Previous ranking: 12th.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

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    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    6.9494
    Character
    6.7253
    Challenge
    6.9598
    Layout Variety
    6.8283
    Fun
    6.6563
    Aesthetics
    6.5705
    Conditioning
    6.5547

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