Kirkwood National Golf Club

Kirkwood National Golf Club in Holly Springs is north Mississippi's anchor public round — a Greg Connor design that opened in 1995, stretches 7,129 yards from the tips, and sits 30 minutes north of Ole Miss / Oxford along Highway 78 toward Memphis. The course routes through rolling north-Mississippi hardwood terrain with dramatic elevation changes that play more like north Alabama or middle Tennessee golf than the flat Delta tracks most visitors associate with Mississippi. Connor's routing features 7 lakes and 45 bunkers distributed across the 18 holes, with water in play on approximately a third of the holes — enough to force genuine strategic decisions without becoming a one-note water test. The course's reputation as 'the best course in north Mississippi' holds up in practice: conditioning is consistently cited as the strongest among public tracks in the Memphis-to-Tupelo corridor, and the 7,129-yard length from the back tees makes it a legitimate championship-caliber test. For the Oxford / Ole Miss / Holly Springs trip visitor (football weekend, alumni trip, or Memphis day-trip combo), Kirkwood National is the anchor round — paired naturally with The Grove in Grenada for a two-round north Mississippi public package.