The Golf Club of Tennessee: Lower

In the early 1990s, Tom Fazio, assisted by longtime associate Tom Marzolf, designed a sprawling golf-only layout just west of Nashville. They routed it over 317 acres, incorporating dense forest, rocky ridges and a river valley. Its first two holes play along the flat valley of Brush Creek, while the par-4 third runs uphill through thick trees to a greensite on a bluff overlooking the valley. Four, a 200-yard par 3, requires a carry over a chasm that drops to the river. The par-3 eighth plays directly over the river, while the dogleg-right par-4 ninth hugs its rocky edge. After the par-3 10th, in a box-canyon to a green backdropped by tall shale outcropping and cascading springs, much of the back nine is in open meadowland. Sixteen is yet another par 3 over Brush Creek, the short par-5 17th has narrow dual fairways, and the par-4 18th doglegs left over the river. Fairways are zoysia grass, greens are Penncross bentgrass and roughs are fescue, native grasses and wildflowers. The club's second course, designed by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner and called the Upper, traversing the forested foothills above the Fazio Lower course, opened for play in 2024.