Golf in Martinsville

Martinsville is an independent city in Henry County in the southern Virginia Piedmont, famous for the Martinsville Speedway — the oldest track on the NASCAR circuit, a paperclip-shaped half-mile that has produced some of the sport's most dramatic racing since 1947. The city's furniture manufacturing heritage and the NASCAR culture create an unusual civic identity. Two golf facilities — Chatmoss Country Club and Forest Park Country Club — serve the Martinsville professional community in the gently varied southern Virginia Piedmont. Golf has served this Virginia community as a gathering place for the professional, agricultural, and working families who sustain the Commonwealth's civic life across the economic cycles that have alternately challenged and strengthened every corner of the state.