COVER STORY ENDURING POPULARITY Natchez Golf Club continues to be an admired facility Established as a 9-hole course in 1916, Natchez Golf Club at Duncan Park has found a way to appeal to golfers young, old and in between over the last 110 years. One trip to these hollowed grounds in Historic Natchez (Miss.) and you will find a place where in the early days Walter Hagen, Sam Snead and Babe Zaharias played this course. This past June, the course played host to its annual Norman Puckett Junior Championship, a regional championship that continues to grow and attract players from the Southeastern United States. In October, the course will welcome competitors for the Natchez Open, a 54-hole tournament sanctioned by the Mississippi Golf Association that also awards WAGR points. In between all these prestigious events, there will be thousands of rounds played on the original nine holes and the second nine, which was opened in the 1990s. Seymour Dunn, a Scottish professional golfer, was the designer of the par-35 front nine. The round starts with four par-4s. The rest of the front nine features the par-5 fifth, a par-3 sixth, back-to-back par-4s and the par-3 ninth, which is the shortest hole on entire course from the tips (blue) and middle (white) tees. The back nine, designed by Bryan Ault, starts with one of two par-5s (number 14 is the other). Nos. 11-12 are each par-4s and No. 15 is the final par-3 of the course, which finishes with a pair of par-4s. The back nine is a par-36 and together the course plays at 6,501 from the tips. From the middle tees, the course is just under 5,900 yards and just over 5,100 from the front (red) tees. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE Tee to Green Golf Magazine Issue 239 Page 4
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