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Ooltewah, TN
The Honors Course
Jack Lupton founded The Honors Course with a mission centered on amateur golf. The Club opened at the foot of White Oak Mountain near Chattanooga on July 2, 1983.
- Course
- 18 holes · par 72 · Opened 1983
- Original architect
- Pete Dye
- Club website
- Visit website
The course
Course design
Jack Lupton’s commitment to amateur golf
Its national amateur championships have included the 1991 U.S. Amateur and the 1994 Curtis Cup. The latter ended in a 9–9 tie, allowing Great Britain and Ireland to retain the trophy.
Championships
Results and dates 8 editions
NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
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Tiger Woods
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Scott Langley
Curtis Cup
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Tied
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U.S. Amateur
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Mitch Voges
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U.S. Junior Amateur
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Min Woo Lee
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U.S. Mid-Amateur
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Kevin Marsh
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U.S. Senior Amateur
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Louis Brown
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U.S. Women's Amateur
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U.S. Women’s Amateur
Asterisk Talley
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In the archive
Sources and editorial notes10 references
Sources for this story
- 2024 U.S. Senior Amateur Fact Sheet United States Golf Association
The Course / Course Architect / Additional Notes sections
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources9 references
- Club mark source
- Golf Course Superintendents Association of America
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Women's Amateur final recap The final recap confirms the completed championship, its ordinal, host and winner. Exact championship dates are printed in the USGA championship header and corroborated by the saved fast-facts sheet: 2026-08-04 through 2026-08-09. The recap explicitly reports Talley defeating Anna Iwanaga, 8 and 6, in the championship final. The original article contains an internally inconsistent later hole-by-hole sequence; that sequence is excluded.
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Senior Amateur record book, page 9 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26SeniorAm.pdf; SHA-256 db447a8079c9a707c54710acb92d7da567e788bc38b4b449c065d542155ab300. Exact result row: 2024 (Aug. 24-29) Louis Brown d. Daniel Sullivan , 4 and 3; The Honors Course, Ooltewah, Tenn.; Medalists — 142, John Kemp, Roger Newsom ; Entries: 2,762 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. The primary result identifies this exact Club and place; the retained named physical Course is its sole Course identity. This links Course identity only, without asserting an unchanged historical routing or scorecard.
- USGA: U.S. Junior Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 10, 2016 result row. Completed championship and final result. Min Woo Lee defeated Noah Goodwin, 2 and 1. Actual date range from the retrospective result table.
- NCAA: 2025 Division I Mens Golf Championships Records Book Official NCAA team and individual championship records, PDF pages5-9 and38. Separate team/individual awards; NCAA chronology starts1939, not the pre1939 intercollegiate family. Dates remain unasserted except where printed in Houston PDF page14 for1982.
- USGA: U.S. Mid-Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 8, 2005 result row. Completed championship, finalists and final match margin are recorded. Match-play margin is not a stroke total. Actual date range transcribed from the retrospective championship results.
- R&A official Curtis Cup match history The primary match-history entry records these dates: 1994 (July 30-31): USA 9, GB&I 9; Honors Course, Tennessee Dates corroborated against the retained official USGA 2026 Record Book. No participant, score or historical routing changes are selected.
- USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 10, 1991 result row. Mitch Voges d. Manny Zerman, 7 and 6. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.