In 2008, the hopes of completing the Blue Ridge Golf & River Club were lost as that year’s real estate crash claimed yet another victim.

Everything except the uphill trajectory!ĭesign and construction on what was originally known as the Blue Ridge Golf & River Club (which began in 2005), was led by Dan Proctor and Dave Axland of Bunker Hill Golf with Jack Dredla as the Master Shaper. Step up to the first tee and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Old Toccoa Farm in Mineral Bluff, Georgia is the poster child of links mountain golf. The best of both worlds: sandy soils, lots of sand dunes, steep elevation changes and trees, lots of trees.

I submit to you a new category of golf course: Links Mountain Golf. To many golfers, it offers the ultimate golf challenge. Mountain golf is the antithesis of links golf, plenty of rolling hills, dramatic elevation changes and trees everywhere. A true links course has little if any trees in fact, other than tall sea grasses and gorse – a hearty low-growing evergreen plant – there is little vegetation at all! These courses are usually susceptible to strong winds, which is why you will find deep bunkers digging them deep is the only way to keep sand in them. By definition, a links-style golf course is one that is built on sandy soil along the coastline there is very little elevation change other than the surrounding sand dunes.

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