With every hole telling its own story about one of golf’s greatest gladiators, the course at Branson Hills (formerly Payne Stewart Golf Club) is a fitting tribute to famous Missouri golfers.
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With every hole telling its own story about one of golf’s greatest gladiators, the course at Branson Hills (formerly Payne Stewart Golf Club) is a fitting tribute to famous Missouri golfers.
Branson Hills
There are a number of tribute courses to be found around this site, either celebrating the greatest holes in golf, or holes created by the greatest architects in golf. Branson Hills Golf Club aims to serve as both a fun test of golf and a Missouri Golf Hall of Fame, celebrating some of the state’s biggest names, including Tom Watson, Payne Stewart, John Daly and others.
Few golfers lived up to the Missouri nickname — “The Show Me State”— more than those last two, and Branson Hills aims to live up to the hype, with stone walls and waterfalls showing off the Ozark region’s natural eye-catching aesthetic. Like all of the golfers mentioned, however, there is also substance to this course, and players had better bring all of their best if they aim to score on this 7,300-yard test. The “Show-Me” moment here will be the trio of long holes running from No. 9 through No. 11, all demanding maneuvering around a creek bed and bunkers ranging from big-to-pot.
Interestingly, neither designer Chuck Smith nor player consultant Bobby Clampett hails from Missouri.