Fred Hawtree

Weaverville, NC

Reems Creek Golf Club lies in a valley near Weaverville, North Carolina, a short drive from Asheville and surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains. The course was designed by the British firm Hawtree and Son of Oxford, England, the same firm behind Royal Birkdale, and opened in 1989 with a Scottish Highland-style look of rolling terrain, deep knolls, and bentgrass tees, fairways and greens. It plays to a par of 71 across roughly 6,235 yards from the back markers. After falling into disrepair and a 2019 bankruptcy, new local ownership took over at the end of that year and made extensive renovations, including bunker removal and irrigation and clubhouse upgrades. It operates as a semi-private club with limited outside play alongside its golf community of homes.