Colonial Country Club (South)

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 it's 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.