SOUTH PITTSBURG
Sweetens Cove, 2040 Sweetens Cove Road, South Pittsburg, TN 37380
Whether it’s your first visit or your 100th, you’ll be treated as part of the family and welcomed with a warm smile in the Shed. When your day is done after some multiple of 9 (the current record is 254), you may realize that your perception of what golf is and what it can be has been altered forever.
How can anyone from private developers to municipalities transform a mediocre 9-hole course from bad to good, with very little money? The template is Sweetens Cove. Perhaps America’s ultimate cult course, Sweetens Cove is a Tad King/Rob Collins 2014 renovation of a decrepit, pre-existing course called Sequatchie Valley, located 30 miles west of Chattanooga. A 2017 New York Times feature catapulted the 3,301-yard par-36 course into the limelight, which has ultimately attracted celebrity investors such as Peyton Manning and Andy Roddick. What luminaries and regular folks are drawn to are the relentlessly interesting strategic options, ruggedly sculpted bunkers, and imaginatively contoured greens. (https://linksmagazine.com/the-10-most-influential-american-golf-courses-you-can-play/)
Digging Into Design: The Sweetens Cove Story With Architect Rob Collins
