A Scottish style course designed by former U.S. Open and PGA champion Larry Nelson. The Springhouse Golf Club is located along the Cumberland River. It offers 18 holes of spectacular golf. Five teeing areas are located on each hole, providing a test for the both the expert golfer and the novice. Although the course generally looks open, a drive out of the fairway is likely to find trouble from Bermuda rough to sand and grass bunkers to water.
Water comes into play on several holes on both the front and back.
The golfer will find out quickly that the Springhouse Course is a thinking man's course which requires straight tee shots to long, medium, and short irons, to slick, bent greens. By design of the course, each hole is unique. A tight, tree-lined driving course, Belle Meade is a thinking man's layout which requires long, medium, and short iron shots as well as delicate wedge and chip shots to large, exceptionally kept bent greens. The greens are well-trapped. The first Senior Amateur Tournament was held at Belle Meade in 1955.