Etowah Valley Golf Club

Etowah Valley Golf Club is a 27-hole Edmund Ault design in the Southern Highlands of western North Carolina, about 25 minutes south of Asheville near Hendersonville. The noted Mid-Atlantic architect Ault shaped the 240-acre property in the 1960s into three nine-hole courses (South, West, and North) that combine into any 18-hole routing, winding through a plateau 2,200 feet high where the Great Smoky Mountains meet the Southern Blue Ridge. The setting is the defining feature. Fairways wind like ribbons along rolling mountain valleys with awe-inspiring peak views, this is Western NC scenery at its most accessible, sitting inside a full resort complex with 65 hotel rooms and two large cottages that make multi-day stays easy. Ault's 1960s routing emphasizes playable widths and strategic green complexes rather than brute length, which keeps the course accessible for resort-golf visitors while still giving single-digit players enough bite to stay interested. A natural pairing with Maggie Valley for an Asheville Mountains trip, Ault's parkland vs. the Maggie Valley hand-sewn muni, two very different sides of Southern Highlands golf.