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Independence Golf Club

Independence Golf Club

600 Founders Bridge Boulevard
Midlothian, VA 23113

(804) 897-8641

Course

Stretching across gently rolling terrain on the edge of Virginia’s Piedmont region, the Club’s 18-Hole Championship Course meanders through woodlands and along quiet, reflecting waters. Tom Fazio, whose course designs have populated Golf Digest’s Top 100 for years on end, has created in Independence a varied and inventive course appealing to golfers of many skill levels. With multiple tee placements, strategic bunkering throughout, and numerous holes that might be described as character building, it is a course that promises to excite and challenge both champions and amateurs, alike.

9 Hole Short Course

For junior golfers, families, and accomplished golfers who want to work on their short game, the 9-Hole Short Course, also designed by Tom Fazio, is the course of choice. Recognizing the truth of “practice makes perfect” the Short Course is adjacent to the Independence practice facility, which includes a double-ended practice tee complete with sand bunkers, pitching holes, and expansive putting greens.

Tom Fazio

Independence Golf Club is Fazio’s first contribution to daily-fee golf in Virginia. The layout reflects the philosophy of Fazio, who sought to create a harmonious transition form existing topographical conditions. “Not a lot of earth movement was necessary, because of the natural terrain of the environment.”

Like all Fazio courses, Independence Golf Club requires a number of shots and offers a variety of options. The course is extremely well bunkered, which Fazio says he uses to ‘frame’ his golf hole images.

“As an artist, you must decide what frames your picture. It may be metal, gold, silver or ornate – it accentuates what’s inside. Bunkers are the same way on a golf course. There are different styles and different looks that you invent, and we felt at Independence Golf Club, in order to create the set up for the golf holes — for their ‘frame’ – the bunkering we used presents a very artistic and dramatic look.”

Tom has also designed four exclusive private facilities in Virginia with fabulous amenities to complement their outstanding golf courses and practice facilities. They are: The Virginian [Bristol], Lowes Island [Sterling], Bayville [Virginia Beach], and Two Rivers [Williamsburg].