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Confederate General Wade Hampton escaped the summertime lowland heat for the mountains of western North Carolina more than a century ago, and in the 1920s golf champion Bobby Jones also found refreshment in the cooling breezes and riveting panoramas around Highlands. Today, North Carolina's mountain region is a beacon for golfers with outstanding courses chiseled in, around and over majestic peaks and foothills.
At 6,684 feet Mount Mitchell is the highest peak east of the Mississippi River, so it is fitting there's an outstanding course routed at the foot of it by Englishman Fred Hawtree. Ellis Maples designed Boone Golf Club, George Cobb created Hound Ears Lodge & Club in Blowing Rock, and Scotsman Donald Ross was active in the mountains, designing Linville Golf Club and Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa. Ross also laid out the Asheville Municipal Golf Course in 1923 and noted the finished course would "be a chief asset in advertising for visitors."
Golfers have been flocking to the mountains ever since.
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