Photo: Luke Canan via GoogleChattanooga
r/golf cult favorite Sweetens Cove plus the newly opened Keep at McLemore (Golf Digest Best New 2026 runner-up) — a 2-hour architecture geek weekend with two 9-hole masterpieces (Sweetens + Sewanee) and two Lookout Mountain cliffside 18s at McLemore.
Courses
7 courses
$$Sweetens Cove Golf Club
★ 4.618 holespublic
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Rob Collins & Tad King (2014)
$$$$The Keep at McLemore
★ 4.218 holespublic
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Bill Bergin & Rees Jones (2024)
$$$The Highlands at McLemore
18 holespublic
★100 Greatest Public Courses ...
Rees Jones & Bill Bergin renovation (2019, originally Canyon Ridge)
$$The Course at Sewanee (University of the South)
★ 4.618 holespublic
★100 Greatest Public Courses ...
Albion W. Knight (1915), Gil Hanse restoration (2013)
$$Bear Trace at Harrison Bay
★ 4.618 holespublic
★100 Greatest Public Courses ...
Jack Nicklaus (1999)
$The Course at Sewanee
★ 4.618 holespublic
★100 Greatest Public Courses ...
Gil Hanse (2013)
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Moccasin Bend Golf Club
18 holespublic
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Recent Groups
Based on recent trips to this destination
4 golfers · 3 rounds
April 2026
~$1,400/person
6 golfers · 4 rounds
March 2026
~$1,850/person
3 golfers · 2 rounds
February 2026
~$980/person