100 Annandale Club Drive,
Madison, Mississippi MS 39110
The Course:
18 holes. Tree-lined parkland.
Surroundings:
Residential and woodland.
Designer:
Jack Nicklaus
32.497230
-90.196005
19 miles N of downtown Jackson.
Annandale
Annandale Golf Club is one of Mississippi's finest golf layouts and often the highest-rated private course of any in the Magnolia state. If you are fortunate enough to play here, you'll find Annandale's excellent quality tree-lined layout throws down a wonderful parkland golfing challenge.
The 18-hole Jack Nicklaus design occupies pleasantly rolling terrain, and features bentgrass greens, many of them elevated. The fairways are edged with pampas grass.
Two broad lakes and a few smaller ponds ensures water threatens on several holes. Around the greens and along the fairways the course is laced with abundant stylish bunkering, some of it reminiscent of the links courses of Britain and Ireland.
Limited access: this private course is generally playable only by members and their invited guests.
Private club; guests may only play if hosted by a member.
Excellent
Annandale Golf Club is located on the site of the former Annandale Plantation. The name Annandale was brought to Mississippi in 1820 by John T. Johnstone of North Carolina, a great-nephew of the Earl of Annandale of Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
In the forest of Madison County, he established an extensive Plantation. between 1857 and 1859, Johnstone built a forty-room three-story Italian Renaissance-style mansion, in which ttheir descendants lived in until it burned down in 1924.
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