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Explore Golf in ArkansasFor many years, BetweenTeeTimes was the premier golfing magazine in Arkansas and is here presented as www.BetweenTeeTimes.com. On this site, you will discover the most complete information compiled anywhere on golfing in Arkansas.www.BetweenTeeTimes.com contains a complete listing of Arkansas golf courses along with a wealth of information for each, individual Arkansas golf course. We provide information on all golf tournaments in Arkansas, complete golf club reviews, golf tips and golf instructions from golf pros, golf tee times, golf course reviews and a golf course directory, plus many other features. The diverse landscape of the state lends itself to the division of Arkansas golf courses into six separate and distinct golfing regions, all of which have their own, individual characteristics. Arkansas' temperate climate allows for golfing most every day of the year. If you take your golf with a little scenery, the Ozark Region might be just what you're looking for. Located in the Northernmost part of the Natural State, amid the spectacular Ozark Mountain Range, you'll encounter Mother Nature at her best. Beautiful, pristine mountain scenery, cool mountain streams and all the golf you want. Does it get any better? Constrained only by the waters of the Mississippi River, Arkansas' Delta Region encompasses the entire Eastern border of the state, coming within "rock throwing" distance of the States of Missouri, Tennessee and Mississippi. Throughout this region, is evidence of a life that existed before the War for Southern Independence. Filled with antebellum mansions and plantation fields, the Old South of Arkansas boasts several world class golf courses. The Timberland Region of Arkansas has a feature shared by few places anywhere. No matter where you choose to golf in this region, should you look to your left, you'll see trees, looking to your right, you'll also see trees. That's because you're in the woods. Beautiful flatland forests cover this region that stretches to the State of Louisiana. Southwest Arkansas is the home of the Ouachita Mountains which, may not rise quite as high as the Ozarks, but they're chocked full of those mountain streams and amazing golf courses. The River Valley Region reaches from the state's western boarder with Oklahoma to the sleepy town of Morrilton in Conway County. It encompasses the valley created by the mighty Arkansas river river as it winds it's way between Dardanelle and Russellville and passing alongside Petit Jean Mountain. And that brings us to the Central Region. Nestled in the foothills of the Ozarks, these courses offer gentle rolling hills, natural streams and an address close to town. Many a fine golf tournament in Arkansas takes place in the Central Region. The Arkansas Natural State Golf Trail is perhaps the most scenic route in Arkansas golf. Sprawling across much of the state, the golf courses on the Trail include Stonebridge Meadows Golf Club in Fayetteville, Big Creek Golf & Country Club in Mountain Home, The Red Apple Inn & Country Club in Heber Springs, Thunder Bayou Golf Links in Blytheville, Greystone Country Club - Cypress Creek in Cabot, Greystone Country Club - Mountain Springs in Cabot, Hot Springs Country Club in Hot Springs, Harbor Oaks Golf Club in Pine Bluff, The Course at Eagle Mountain in Batesville, Tannenbaum Golf Club in Drasco, Eagle Crest Golf Club in Alma, Mountain Ranch Golf Course in Fairfield Bay, Glenwood Country Club in Glenwood and Sage Meadows Golf Course in Jonesboro. Now that you've had a little taste of golf in Arkansas, come on in and explore this site. We've tried to give you as much information as exists about the golf courses in Arkansas. We're adding new content every day, and every day we draw more and more visitors. We hope you enjoy this site as much as you'll love golf in Arkansas. Arkansas golf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing Arkansas golfers, using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on an Arkansas golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Arkansas golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on Arkansas golf courses, each of which feature a unique design, although Arkansas golf courses typically consist of either nine or 18 holes. Arkansas golf, and golf everywhere, is defined, in the rules of golf, as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules." Arkansas golfers play to attain the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known simply as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes during a complete round by an individual or team, known as match play. The origin of golf is unclear and open to debate. Some historians (who?) trace the sport back to the Roman game of paganica, in which participants used a bent stick to hit a stuffed leather ball. One theory asserts that paganica spread throughout Britain and Europe as the Romans conquered much of the continent, during the first century B.C., and eventually evolved into the modern game. (2) Others cite Chuiwan ("chui" means striking and "wan" means small ball) as the progenitor, a Chinese game played between the eighth and 14th centuries.(3) The game is thought to have been introduced into Europe during the Middle Ages. Another early game that resembled modern golf was known as cambuca in England and chambot in France. (4) This game was, in turn, exported to the Low Countries, Germany and England (where it was called pall-mall, pronounced "pell-mell"). Some observers, however, believe golf descended from the Persian game, chaugan. In addition, kolven (a game involving a ball and curved bats) was played annually in Loenen, Netherlands, beginning in 1297, to commemorate the capture of the assassin of Floris V, a year earlier. According to the most widely accepted account the modern game originated in Scotland around the 12th century with shepherds knocking stones into rabbit holes on the current site of the Royal and ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews. (5). |