Most resorts require customers to take a golf cart.
It's a matter of revenue and a matter of courses stretched out to accommodate housing with long hauls from green to tee. But Rick Smith, who can talk bark off a tree, convinced Treetops Sylvan Resort owner Harry Melling to let him design a walking course as the Gaylord resort's fourth 18 hole course. When Melling hired Smith in 1986 he thought he was getting just a golf professional, not that that's a bad thing. The only thing we didn't have, that other resorts don't have is a walk-only course. Walking is a lost art even though the whole game of golf originated with players toting their bag and chasing the ball.