Evan Schiller
Evan Schiller
Evan Schiller
Evan Schiller
Evan Schiller
Richland Country Club
Richland Country Club
1 Club Dr
Nashville, TN 37215-5824
United States
Overview
Richland Country Club was chartered as the Nashville Golf Club in 1901, though it has moved locations several times and played a handful of different golf courses, including one laid out by Donald Ross in 1921. In 1988, the club moved to a new site in the hill country south of the city and hired Jack Nicklaus to design it course up to the modern standards of the day. Atlanta-based architect Bill Bergin conducted a significant transformation of that design in 2021 that focused on expanding greens and fairways, removing excess trees and rebuilding (fewer) grass-faced bunkers notched into upslopes as Ross might have on this site. Significantly, the two nines were flipped and the first and ninth holes (formerly 10 and 18) have been directionally reversed for better flow. Richland placed third in the 2023 Best Transformation awards.
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“Built over a historic civil war site with the course integrated into old civil war rock walls and a 400 year old witness tree, this site oozes with history. The course has an incredible topographical landscape. Large slopes off the tee and into greens make the course interesting to play and present the golfer with more options. Many holes have slopes near greens that can be used to careen the ball onto the green if played correctly. The property has a diverse set of greens from size, contouring, and shape with bold slopes that are playable for the average golfer but still challenge the better player."
Read More2025
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“Richland Country Club is characterized by fast, smooth greens in beautiful condition; variety of holes with trees, hillsides, lakes, creeks and stone walls dictating shot options; and continuous flow of the overall routing to create a coherent sum of 18 holes of golf. The club has a timeless, golden-age architecture feel to it, with tree-lined fairways and smallish, strategically placed bunkers. This makes it pleasantly surprising that this was actually an original Nicklaus design recently overhauled by Bill Bergin. Overall, Richland had a delightful walk-in-the-park feel with compelling golf architecture."
Read More2024
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“See course evaluation review."
Read More2023
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“An upscale course to match the upscale setting. Nashville celebrities abound, and the clubhouse is grand and stately, and contains many relics from the Civil War, with a battle having been fought nearby. The course is laid over the hills and valley nicely, as if they had simply been laid out there forever. However, this feel is due to the recent transformation, which is very well done."
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“Beautifully redesigned course set among the undulating hills of Nashville, Tennessee. An interesting an unusual history, including name changes, having different designer of the original course (Donald Ross), and then hiring Jack Nicklaus to build a Jack Nicklaus signature course. The course has now undergone another transformation, this one in the same geographical location. It flows much more elegantly than the original design, with holes transitioning better into each other, and also home to the clubhouse, in a more logical fashion."
Read More2023
