Black Creek

Black Creek Club is a private golf course located in Lookout Valley at the base of Raccoon Mountain, just 10 minutes from dowtown Chattanooga. The Club offers scenic views of the surrounding mountains centered around Black Creek, which meanders its way through the golf course.

Opened in September, 2000, Black Creek Club was designed by Golf World's 1999 Architect of the Year, Brian Silva. Silva's first original project in the Southeast, Black Creek pays homage to the "Golden Age of ... [more]

Black Creek Club is a private golf course located in Lookout Valley at the base of Raccoon Mountain, just 10 minutes from dowtown Chattanooga. The Club offers scenic views of the surrounding mountains centered around Black Creek, which meanders its way through the golf course.

Opened in September, 2000, Black Creek Club was designed by Golf World's 1999 Architect of the Year, Brian Silva. Silva's first original project in the Southeast, Black Creek pays homage to the "Golden Age of Architecture" when Charles Blair Macdonald and Seth Raynor were creating their own masterpieces, such as The National Golf Links of America, Yeamans Hall Club and The Chicago Golf Club.

Black Creek has already received high praise in its short existence, ranging from Golfweek's Top 100 Modern Golf Courses in 2003, to Golf Digest's Top 10 Courses in Tennessee, to just recently being selected #31 in Golfweek's 2006 rankings of the Best Residential Golf Courses in America. Black Creek has also hosted numerous state championships, as well as currently serving as host course for the Nationwide Tour's Chattanooga Classic. In September, 2005, Black Creek welcomed the stroke-play portion of the 25th U.S.G.A. Mid-Amateur Championship, with The Honors Course in nearby Ooltewah serving as the host course for the championship.

All of this adds up to one special place. The Black Creek Club golf course design, coupled with stringent demands in maintenance and service levels, create a golfing experience of the highest caliber, one that combines the strategy and beauty of the classic courses of the past with today's modern game.

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The great Donald Ross once said, "The Lord made golf holes, golf architects merely discover them". This truism describes the creation of Black Creek Club to a tee. Every unique characteristic on each hole was lovingly cultivated to perfection.
The golf course at Black Creek is the crown jewel of the Club and the Cummings Cove residential community. While 1999 Golf World Architect of the Year, Brian Silva, has designed golf courses throughout the country, he chose Black Creek Club to be his first original project in the Southeast.

Mr. Silva thoughtfully designed Black Creek’s multiple tee placements. In doing so, he created a golfing experience that challenges the low-handicapper while ensuring an enjoyable time for players at every level of experience.

With Black Creek (after which the club was named) providing the strategic foundation for wonderful finishing holes on both the front and back nines, the Club resides on a site rich in variety. Black Creek Club is nothing less than a golf architect's dream come true! In those few instances in which the site did not fully cooperate, another of golf's revered architects, Charles Blair Macdonald, set the stage when he announced, "No expense will be spared to create the proper natural settings for golf."

The proficiency of these experts living and dead has culminated in the unique variety of golf holes at Black Creek Club. The design of Black Creek Club clearly reveals the influence of Charles Blair Macdonald and Seth Raynor upon Brian Silva. As both architects repeated their classic golf holes: Redan, Cape, Short, and Punch-Bowl from course to course, Black Creek similarly draws upon contemporary adaptations of these and other classic golf holes. And Silva’s ingenious and beautiful new creations pay further homage to the lessons gleaned from his study of the work of architects from golf’s "Golden Age of Architecture."

  snagger - 8/15/09

  aaronw409 - 6/17/09