Honors Course

The Honors Course is a privately owned golf course located near Ooltewah, Tennessee, just north of Chattanooga. The club was founded by Coca-Cola bottling heir Jack Lupton and designed by Pete Dye in 1983. Since its inception, the course has received numerous accolades, such as: number one ranked course in the state, number thirty-four on Golf Digest's list of the top one-hundred golf courses in America, and the opportunity to hold such prestigious amateur tournaments as the U.S. Amateur, NCAA Championships, and U.S. Junior Championship. Jack Lupton's main idea in founding The Honors Course was to create a place to honor amateur golf and amateur golfers. The course is located in an unincorporated area of Hamilton County, Tennessee, just north of the unincorporated community of Ooltewah.