Tuscumbia Golf Club

Tuscumbia Golf Club in Green Lake, Wisconsin is the oldest 18-hole course in the state, founded in 1896 as Tuscumbia Country Club, making it a genuine relic of 19th-century American golf architecture. The original routing is credited to Tom Bendelow (1868-1936), the 'Johnny Appleseed of American Golf,' whose prolific late-Victorian and early-20th-century portfolio included hundreds of courses across the Midwest and East Coast. Tuscumbia is one of his surviving anchor works. The course plays at 6,308 yards par 71 (70.3 rating, 124 slope), and the defining character comes from a mid-20th-century tree-planting program that classic courses adopted across the country. Almost every fairway is flanked today by pines and century-old hardwoods, giving Tuscumbia a park-like setting of majestic evergreens, thick rough, tight fairways, and rolling landscape. For a Lawsonia Links trip visitor, Tuscumbia is the third-round architectural history lesson, Bendelow's 1896 Green Lake design sitting 15 minutes from Langford/Moreau's 1930 Links Course, with both courses still very much alive and playable.