25 minutes door to door for me. I've played about 10 rounds there so far this year, so I'd call it my home course, though Holston up in Ktown gets my dues check every month.
The place was due to be auctioned back in May through Hilda Allen, I went to it, but the owners had a change of heart at the last minute literally and called it off with a parking lot full of people including prospective buyers from Canada, Cali, MO,...
Riverwatch is a beautiful golf course on some pretty severe property up on the ridges above Center Hill Lake.
Fellow GCA'er Jerry Lemmons of Nashville can chime in, he finished the course for the Cripps family after they, um, parted ways with Jacobsen/Hardy. So pretty much one 9 is J/ H and the other is JL.
It has beautiful wall to wall zoysia turf with 5 sets of tees. Mostly vanilla greens unfortunately. They look really fast, but they are s l o w all the time, don't know why?
There's some pretty interesting movement built into the fairways, some spines that'll kick your ball around, hopefully towards the green. You can see that alot of shaping was done (here's where they might have spent alot of the money that may have caused the parting of ways).
Really great views, as the whole place is up on the ridges over the lake so off line shots tend to be a severely punished. It is a resort development, but the homes are set back off of the golf course so you feel like you're all alone out there.
I prefer it to all the courses at Fairfield Glade, including Stonehenge or Nicklaus' Bear Trace Cumberland Mtn, so I tend to forgive the punishment and write it off as my game's fault for hitting it off of the world.
Here's a pic or two:
Mike - it's 20-25 minutes off I-40 near Cookeville. Why don't we get together and play sometime?
Eric