Cliffs at Glassy

The very scenic Cliffs at Glassy golf course is a tough Tom Jackson-designed layout featuring some massive tee carries and tight-angled doglegs on fairways that sit on top of a 3,000-foot high mountain. It was the first course within The Cliffs private luxury residential mountain and lake club communities in The Carolinas to open in 1993 and six more were added over the following twenty-year period.

“The Cliffs at Glassy may not rate among the game’s architectural elite, but it is unquestionably among its most scenic,” writes Daniel Wexler in The American Private Golf Club Guide. “There is plenty of difficulty here but also some awkward moments in the form of huge tee shot carries and some very sharp doglegs – all perhaps unavoidable due to the terrain.

Most of the better holes fall on the back nine, including the 439-yard 12th (where water guards the left side), the 155-yard 13th (featuring the course’s most panoramic view – and a steep fallaway that can send overly aggressive approaches into oblivion), the 203-yard, downhill 17th, and the 606-yard pond-guarded closer.”