Best Golf Courses Near Crossville, TN

Known as “Tennessee’s Golf Capitol,” Crossville is a small city at the “crossroads” of the state between Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. There’s a lot of golf here, especially within Fairfield Glade, a retirement resort community with five 18s. Top-rated among them is Stonehenge Golf Club, a course dotted with rock outcroppings. GolfWeek rated Stonehenge #157 on its list of the Top 200 Resort Courses of 2021. The shortest and easiest of Fairfield Glade’s courses is the Crag Course at the 36-hole Heatherhurst Golf Club. Crossville’s top rated course—and one of Tennessee’s best—is Lake Tansi Resort Golf Club, a player-friendly, parkland-style layout that anchors a lakeside resort and residential community. Keep an eye out for tee time discounts at Lake Tansi and at Bear Trace at Cumberland Mountain State Park, a Jack Nicklaus design that takes advantage of its pristine, up and down setting laded with brooks and tall pines. After golf in Crossville, why not visit a couple of wineries or hang out downtown, where you’ll find restaurants and shops and the artifact-filled Military Memorial Museum. There’s also always a game of chess in town—Crossville is the headquarters of the U.S. Chess Federation.