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Best golf courses near Franklin, TN

Below, you’ll find a list of courses near Franklin, TN. There are 26 courses within a 15-mile radius of Franklin, 9 of which are public courses and 17 are private courses. There are 18 18-hole courses and 7 nine-hole layouts.

The above has been curated through Golf Digest’s Places to Play course database, where we have collected star ratings and reviews from our 1,900 course-ranking panelists. Join our community by signing up for Golf Digest+ and rate the courses you’ve visited recently.

The Golf Club of Tennessee
Private
The Golf Club of Tennessee
Kingston Springs, TN
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 green site 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 par-4 18th doglegs left over the river. Fairways are Zoysia grass, greens are Penncross bent grass and roughs are fescue, native grasses and wildflowers.
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4. (4) Troubadour Golf & Field Club
Private
4. (4) Troubadour Golf & Field Club
College Grove, TN
4.1
45 Panelists
Troubadour, part of the Discovery Land Company’s growing international portfolio, is integrated into a high-end, amenity-rich development 30 miles south of Nashville. (The name is a reference to traveling musicians, familiar figures in these parts.) Sparing no expense, the course is built upon the bones of the former Hideaway at Arrington course, originally routed and built by the firm of von Hagge, Smelek and Baril. Troubadour’s elevated tees take players on a tour of the surrounding central Tennessee foothills. Though the holes play mostly down through established corridors, the redesign has eliminated much of the previous severity, replacing fields of steep, grassy moguls and ornate bunker clusters with longer, graceful lines. A number of greens were remediated away from hazards to more accessible locations, significantly at par 5s like 3, 9 and 12. Fazio and associate Blake Bickford also pushed the lateral boundaries farther toward the tree line, creating substantially more playing space, establishing greater visibility for their lovely golf compositions and introducing clean, large-format bunkers that guide the eye toward favored landing areas. The highlight is the panorama-rich run of holes 10 through 15 that ride up and down through isolated topography, cross creek ravines and generally look like they’ve existed there for decades, not months.
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Hillwood Country Club
Private
Hillwood Country Club
Nashville, TN
4.1
27 Panelists
Hillwood Country Club is ranked as one of the best golf courses in Tennessee. Discover our experts reviews and tee time information
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Richland Country Club
Private
Richland Country Club
Nashville, TN
4
28 Panelists
Richland Country Club was chartered as the Nashville Golf Club 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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The Grove
Private
The Grove
College Grove, TN
4
45 Panelists
The Grove is ranked as one of the best golf courses in Tennessee. Discover our experts reviews and tee time information
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Belle Meade Country Club
Private
Belle Meade Country Club
Nashville, TN
3.8
34 Panelists
Belle Meade Country Club is ranked as one of the best golf courses in Tennessee. Discover our experts reviews and tee time information
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Towhee Club
Public
Towhee Club
Spring Hill, TN
3.1
4 Panelists
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