Reems Creek Golf Club

Martin Hawtree designed Reems Creek Golf Club in 1990 on a piece of Weaverville, North Carolina Blue Ridge Mountain land north of Asheville. Hawtree — a British architect whose American work was rare — routed the eighteen holes through natural Western North Carolina mountain terrain with significant elevation changes between holes and the surrounding Blue Ridge peaks as the architectural backdrop. The course operates as a daily-fee facility in the broader Asheville-area mountain golf cluster.

The course plays around 6,800 yards par 72 from the back markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 140s. The yardage is moderate by modern standards, but the mountain elevation changes through the routing — Hawtree routed several holes that drop 60 to 80 feet from tee to green — give the playing length a different effective character than the card suggests. The fifteenth hole is a 521-yard par-5 along a mountain ridge; the seventeenth, a 195-yard par-3 across a natural ravine, is the routing's most-photographed mid-round hole. The mature deciduous and rhododendron foliage gives the property its distinct Western North Carolina mountain character.

Reems Creek Golf Club is open to public daily-fee play at moderate rates by Western North Carolina destination standards. The hospitality model is built around the Asheville-area mountain destination experience, with visitors typically combining the round with broader Blue Ridge Parkway and Asheville-area cultural visits.

Western North Carolina mountain climate gives Reems Creek a playing season of April through October, with the firmest conditions in late September and October. The mountain setting keeps the property cooler in mid-summer than the broader Carolinas Piedmont courses. The course closes through brief winter cold snaps. The rhododendron and mountain laurel bloom through May and June, and the autumn color through October is part of the routing's seasonal photographic signature.