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Sweetens Cove among best 9-hole golf courses in America

Course designer and builder Rob Collins tees off at Sweetens Cove Golf Course near South Pittsburg, Tenn.
Course designer and builder Rob Collins tees off at Sweetens Cove Golf Course near South Pittsburg, Tenn.

About Sweetens Cove Golf Course

Owner: King-Collins GolfAddress: 2040 Sweetens Cove Rd., South Pittsburg, TennesseeWebsite: sweetenscovegolfclub.comPhone number: 423-280-9692

Rob Collins laughed at the question, but he understood it.

“We knew when we were going through it, that this was going to be special,” says Collins, the architect and one of the partners in charge of the relatively young and universally praised nine-hole Sweetens Cove Golf Course in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. “But we did not have any idea it would get this kind of response.”

Collins had just done a golf podcast in Australia. The high praise for the nine-hole gem 25 minutes west of Chattanooga has been local, regional, national and, thanks to his interview Down Under, global.

The New York Times called Sweetens Cove “the course that could.”