Golf in Betsy Layne

Betsy Layne is a Floyd County community in the Big Sandy Valley of eastern Kentucky, in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields where the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River flows through the narrow mountain valleys. Floyd County's coal heritage has shaped every aspect of community life — the company towns, the labor organizing, and the long struggle to maintain viable communities as the coal industry has declined. The surrounding mountains of the Cumberland Plateau create the dramatic terrain that defines life in eastern Kentucky. The surrounding county's economic base — whether agricultural, industrial, or service-driven — creates the recreational golf market that sustains local facilities through the economic cycles that affect every Kentucky community.