Golf in Catoosa County

I played golf this afternoon at Battlefield Golf & Country Club in a charity event sponsored by the local Kiwanis club. It was a beautiful late Spring / early Summer day. Our team excelled only in our mediocrity, despite our talent. :) Although we'd like to blame the course conditions (see below), the fault was our own -- we simply didn't execute.

Now for those who play golf, I thought that I'd share with you some thoughts about the golfing opportunities in Catoosa County.

Battlefield Golf & Country Club is a private club located just outside of the Chickamauga Battlefield, a federal military park. The park is beautiful; the course is not. It's a good layout; but the course conditions leave quite a bit to be desired. But, it's early season... so, maybe they'll get out the equipment, cut the fairways, level the tee boxes, kill off the poiana, etc.

Windstone Golf Club, in Ringgold, Georgia, is a semi-private course. It's a nice track, although a bit short for my taste. What makes this course worthwhile is that is generally (meaning, most of the time) in good condition. I'll take good greens and average fairways over the reverse anyday. This course has been host to the Ringgold Telephone Company Junior Classic, an AJGA-sanctioned event in its third year. Windstone's owners, the brother team of Tim and Wes Gilbert, do a fine job in managing and caring for this gem of a public course.

There are other courses out and about from Catoosa. I'll tackle them in later posts at later dates. But, this gives a quick overview of the two major courses in the county.

BTW, and this is a total aside, there was a long-drive competition after the Kiwanis event today. (I didn't disgrace myself by entering.) Conditions were wet -- meaning, little or no roll on the fairways. The long drive was measured at 364 yards! Not bad for a little Georgia county!

TTFN!