Wade Hampton Golf Club - North Carolina, U.S.A.

Wade Hampton Golf Club is set in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, near the village of Cashiers. The course is named after the famous Confederate general, who also served as governor of South Carolina and as U.S. Senator. The property was the summer retreat of the Hampton family for more than 150 years. In 1922, the Hampton estate was purchased by E. Lyndon McKee, who converted it into the High Hampton Inn, which has remained a popular rustic mountain getaway for generations of Southerners seeking to escape the heat of summer. McKee's grandchildren, A. William McKee and Ann McKee Austin, developed Wade Hampton as a private and refined golf club that opened in 1987. The course is one of designer Tom Fazio's loveliest and most natural creations, lying directly below the imposing stack of Chimney Top Mountain. The course flows effortlessly through tall pines and rushing mountain streams with rocky beds banked with rhododendron that guard the greens of the par threes.

The Grove Park Inn - North Carolina, U.S.A.

The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa was built as a grand mountain retreat in western North Carolina overlooking Asheville and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Built on Sunset Mountain at an elevation of 2,500 feet, the hotel was founded in 1913 by Edwin Grove, owner of Grove's Pharmacy and Paris Medical Company of  St. Louis, and inventor of such elixirs as Grove's Chill Tonic and Grove's Bromo Quinine. Grove had begun spending summers in Asheville in the 1890s on the advice of his physician. As Grove's son-in-law and co-developer explained: "The idea was to build a big home where every modern convenience could be found, but with all the old-fashioned qualities of genuineness, with no sham. All attempts at the bizarre, the tawdry and flashily foolish to be omitted." The same could be said of the golf course. While golf has been played at the site since 1899, the Course is the work of the legendary Donald Ross, who was brought in to redesign the layout in 1924 after having established his reputation at Pinehurst.