The First Tee of Chesterfield

The First Tee Chesterfield
6736 Hunting Creek Dr.
Richmond, VA 
23237

Course & Practice Facility

The First Tee of Chesterfield is paradise for beginning and experienced golfers.  This fabulous short course not only gives the opportunity for beginning golfers to enjoy their rounds of golf, but also it’s layout can challenge even the best golfers to improve their golfing ability.

The practice facility is one of the best in the state boasting an incredible short game game complex along with an all grass practice tee.

Lester George – Golf Architect

Lester George incorporates his creativity and passion for the game of golf in every golf course design. The blending of his terrain reading ability and his lively interest in the history of golf enables him to visualize imaginative course designs. With over 10 years experience in the design, renovation and restoration of numerous golf courses throughout the United States and Japan, Lester has been established as a leading golf course architect.

Reviews & Testimonials

* Awarded Top Ten Short Courses in America

Website

www.thefirstteerichmondchesterfield.org

Tee Times

Phone: (804) 275-8050

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].

Reviews & Testimonials

*Golf Digest Best Places to Play

* Richmond Times – Best Public Golf Course in Richmond

* #1 Practice Facility in The Country – Golfworld Reader Choice awards

Website

http://www.independencegolfclub.com

Tee Times

Phone: (804) 897-8641

Bulle Rock Golf Course

320 Blenhiem Ln
Havre De Grace, MD 21078-2003
(410) 939-8887

Course

Many players on our course wonder where we got our name, Bulle Rock.

The name goes back to the 1730s when James Samuel Patton brought to this continent Bulle Rock, a stud horse that would become known in history as the “father of all thoroughbred horses” in America.

Some years later, Patton’s granddaughter, Cassandra Durbin, received a male colt from the same bloodline as part of her dowry when she married Richard Sappington, owner of Blenheim Stud Farm in Northern Maryland, the site where our course is now located. Cassandra’s colt was named in honor of her grandfather’s stud, Bulle Rock.

And so when Blenheim Stud Farm became a golf club, the legendary horse’s name seemed a perfect choice for a legendary course. And thus our slogan as well: “Named for a Thoroughbred, Designed by a Legend, your Country Club for a Day”

Meet Pete Dye, the Legendary Designer of Bulle Rock

The 18-hole, world-class championship course at Bulle Rock was laid out by renowned designer Pete Dye.

Reportedly, it took awhile for Pete Dye to find his true calling in life. Born in 1925 in Urbana, Ohio, he majored in business at Rollins College in Florida, where he met his wife, Alice O’Neal, the lead golfer on the women’s team at the school. The two married in 1950, and Pete worked for several years in insurance before turning to golf course design together with his wife in the late 1950s. Both Pete and his wife are excellent golfers. While he is a member and past president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, Alice was the first woman inducted into the society.

In 1963, they took a month-long trip to visit the classical venues in Scotland, which had an immediate impact on his designs. There he found bunkers, railroad ties shoring up bunkers, small greens and sprawling waste areas strewn with sand. His designs began to separate themselves from other architects as they became bolder and more uninhibited with the use of mounding, bumps and hollows. Dye still integrates classic links course elements into a variety of settings.

Known for the design of courses that are very difficult and often very long, Dye is also a hands-on designer more likely to be found on a bulldozer than at a drafting board. He spent 79 days at Bulle Rock during its construction.

Having now created some 75 golf courses mostly in the United States, he is well known for such spectacular layouts as Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Plantation in South Carolina, the Stadium Course at PGA West in La Quinta, California, the Crooked Stick golf course in Carmel, Indiana, Teeth of the Dog in Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic and Whistling Straits, the home of the PGA Championship in Kohler, Wisconsin.

Reviews & Testimonials

“I did not undo God’s work.” 
– Pete Dye, Bulle Rock Golf Course Designer

Maryland’s #1 Rated Five Star Golf Course
One of only 24 in North America for 2008
One of only 17 in North America for 2006
One of only 16 in North America for 2004
One of only 12 in North America for 2002
One of only 16 in North America for 2000

Website

http://www.bullerockgolf.com

golf@bullerock.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Havre-de-Grace-MD/Bulle-Rock-Golf-Course/408987165053

Tee Times

Phone: (410) 939-8887

<

Greystone Golf Course

2115 White Hall Road
White Hall, MD  21161

410-887-1945

Course

Designed by Joe Lee, architect of Doral Resort’s famed Blue Monster and the courses at Walt Disney World; Greystone Golf Course is a true masterpiece in layout, challenge and entertainment.  Greystone’s championship course includes 140 feet of elevation changes and features seven ponds and more than 80 bunkers. The tall hardwood trees, wetlands, and native vegetation add an abundance of character to the design.  Greystone’s tees, greens and fairways are all preferred bentgrass, and all are expertly maintained by the outstanding turf management staff.

Reviews & Testimonials

Website

http://www.baltimoregolfing.com

Tee Times

Phone: 410-887-1945

<

>

4804 Whiskey Court
Ijamsville, MD 21754
(888) 883-1174
(301) 694-2900

Course

At the end of a mile-long drive through forest and field, Whiskey Creek Golf Club has a feeling of privacy and seclusion. Bordered by a high ridge of hardwoods and a winding, free-flowing creek, the property contains many different environments and natural features including springs, streams, stone walls, wetlands, rock outcroppings, broad meadows, pine forests and dramatic views of the Catoctin Mountains. Architect J. Michael Poellot and design consultant Ernie Els, a 2-time United States Open Champion, have designed Whiskey Creek to take full advantage of its spectacular setting.

Poellot and Els wanted their golf course to be as big and bold as the land itself, and they approached the design of Whiskey Creek as an opportunity to create a world-class golf course. Els has won tournaments all over the globe, and Poellot’s firm, JMP Golf Design Group, has a resume peppered with some of the most highly ranked courses on the Pacific Rim. Whiskey Creek was their first collaboration, and Els said, “We wanted to make it a winner.”

For sheer excitement, Whiskey is hard to match. The course has several elevated tees, including the dramatic fifth tee, where the tee box is framed by huge boulders and the fairway tumbles down to a green 100 feet below. The view seems to stretch across all of Maryland. The 14th tee isn’t quite as high, but the drive is even more challenging, as the tee is perched above a long, narrow lake. Even the par 3’s are formidable, protected by wetlands, water, bunkers, or rock walls – and in the case of the 200-yard 11th hole, by all of the above.

“Whiskey Creek offers a wonderful opportunity for a highly memorable round of golf due to the great diversity of the natural setting of the site’s surroundings,” said Poellot. “The golf course is a very true test of golf that Ernie and I know golfers of all abilities will enjoy playing time and time again.”

Reviews & Testimonials

“… 30-mile views… spectacular tee shots… the par 5 finishing hole is truly remarkable,”
Golf Magazine, April 2000

Website

http://whiskeycreekgolf.com/

Tee Times

Phone: (301) 694-2900 or (888) 883-1174

Heritage Oaks Golf Course 
680 Garbers Church Road
Harrisonburg, VA 22801

(540) 442-6502

click here for
current rates & packages

Course

Heritage Oaks Golf Course is a challenging and scenic course for golfers of all abilities. Owned by the City of Harrisonburg and designed by William Love, Heritage Oaks offers a wide variety of holes including links-style holes as well as traditional, tree-lined holes. Golfers of all abilities will enjoy playing this par 70 course as it offers four sets of tees on each hole with overall distances ranging from 4500 yards to 6325 yards.

Tee Times, Weather and Directions

Tee Times may be booked up to 2 weeks in advance. 
Please call (540)442-6502 for tee times, shop hours or other questions.