off Hwy 107,
Cashiers, North Carolina 28717
The Course:
18 holes. Tree-lined parkland. Undulating terrain - a few slopes to climb.
Surroundings:
Woodland.
Designer:
Tom Fazio
35.090224
-83.074898
75 mi SW of Ashville / 2.5 mi SE of Cashiers.
Wade Hampton
Wade Hampton Golf Club is home to a championship course that ranks with the world's best. Here you will find one of the United States' most admired tree-lined parkland courses, with an outstanding array of excellently crafted and challenging holes. Golf courses don't get any better than this. However, this is a private course generally playable only by members and their invited guests.
Private club; visitors/guests may only play if hosted by a member.
Good
Wade Hampton is an Audubon International Certified Cooperative Sanctuary course.
North Carolina: 2nd best course in North Carolina (Golf Digest, 2023/24).
USA: 32nd best course in the USA (Golf Digest, 2023).
World: formerly ranked world's 96th best course (GOLF magazine, 2005; not in subsequent editions of this ranking).
1525 Hwy 107 South, Cashiers, NC 28717
+1 (800) 334 2551
Visit websiteSince 1922, the 1400-acre High Hampton Inn & Country Club, surrounded by the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Cashiers, and shimmering lakes and streams, has been hosting generation after generation of guests. This historic Inn offers mountain golf, tennis, pampering spa services, hiking and a 35-acre private mountain lake for swimming, boating and fishing.
High Hampton Inn GC (not covered by Where2Golf.com).
Wade Hampton (1 mi, private); Mountaintop (private); Old Edwards (resort guest only).
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445 Main St, Highlands, NC 28741
+1 (866) 526 8008
Visit websiteOld Edwards Inn & Spa "graces the western North Carolina Mountains with its welcoming ambiance of relaxed luxury for families, friends, couples, spa goers, nature lovers and golfers". Consistently voted a top travel destination, this meandering mountain resort is just a few minutes away from the quaint downtown area of Highlands. Golf at the Old Edwards Club is located approximately 6 miles northeast of the centre of Highlands. Old Edwards Inn is a member of the Historic Hotels of America.
No
Old Edwards Club
Wade Hampton (private); Mountaintop (private).
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Céline Boutier: with many successes as both an amateur and professional golfer, Boutier added a major championship title to her impressive résumé at this year’s Evian Championship.
Alex Cejka: buffeted by rain and high winds, especially on the high-scoring final day, Čejka prevailed over Pádraig Harrington in a playoff at Royal Porthcawl, to scoop the Senior Open Championship title.
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club: With a clubhouse that might befit a Roman Emperor, and a golf course to match, you can be sure of a memorable outing at Rome's most talked about golf facility.
Jim Fazio's original layout was much changed to create a modern Ryder Cup course ... now one of the Eternal City's (and Italy's) most revered.
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