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Belle Meade Country Club – This members-only club is home to an 18-hole, par 72, 6,885-yard golf course [28] and various other amenities, including tennis courts and a pool. Use of the club requires membership – a lengthy and challenging process [ 29 ] – or entering as a guest with a member.
The club was later renamed "Belle Meade Country Club" and Webb was the club golf champion in 1913 and 1917. At the time of his death at age 95, Webb was celebrated as club's oldest living member. He endowed an annual trophy for the Belle Meade Junior Golf championship; a room named for him was dedicated by in 1976 by sportswriter Fred Russell.
He donated a parcel of land on the estate to build a shooting lodge, and founded the Belle Meade Gun Club in 1898. [12] The club hosted the U.S. Wing Shot Championship in October, 1998. [13] Celebrity exhibition marksman, Annie Oakley, visited the Belle Meade Gun Club on October 26, 1899, as a special guest in a shooting competition. [14]
Membership-based clubs include Troubadour Golf and Field Club and The Grove in Williamson County, Belle Meade Country Club and Richland Country Club. As the Nashville area has continued to grow ...
Belle Meade Gun Club, May 7, 1898 The Belle Meade Gun Club was a sport-shooting organization founded in 1897 on the grounds of Belle Meade Plantation on the west side of Nashville, Tennessee . The land, a small parcel of the farm's vast acreage, was donated by its owner, former Confederate General William Hicks Jackson , who enjoyed the sport ...
After arriving in New York, he fortuitously found an opening at a rising country club in Tennessee; sportswriter Grantland Rice was asked by them to interview him and report back. [3] Livingstone was hired and kept the position as head pro at Nashville's Belle Meade Country Club for 35 years (1912–1947).
That year he designed Nashville's Belle Meade Country Club. [1] In 1917, he designed the nearby Belle Meade Apartments, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [5] He designed projects for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway. Several buildings designed by Dougherty are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic ...
It may be the original image-- I found it in the archives of Belle Meade Country Club, Nashville, Tennessee. I am a member of the country club's historical committee and discovered the Image. It appears to be pasted or glued to a backing board. With it was another faded image of the gun club from a distance. Author: Unknown author