Golf in Bristol

Bristol straddles the Tennessee-Virginia state line so precisely that State Street runs down the center of the city, with Bristol, Virginia on the north side and Bristol, Tennessee on the south. The 1927 Bristol Sessions — the recordings made here by the Victor Talking Machine Company that captured Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family — established this Appalachian city as the birthplace of country music. Bristol Motor Speedway, built in a natural bowl in the adjacent hills, is one of NASCAR's most celebrated venues, drawing massive crowds twice a year to this otherwise modestly sized Appalachian city. Golf in the Bristol area operates against this backdrop of music, racing, and the Ridge and Valley geography of the upper Holston watershed, where courses navigate the ridge-and-valley terrain between the parallel Appalachian ridges.