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On June 7, 1921, the club moved, and its name was changed from "Nashville Golf and Country Club" to "Belle Meade Country Club". According to historian Gene Pearce, Livingstone "taught new players the game, gave advice to the veteran player, cared for the course, made sure the caddies were trained, and settled all arguments."
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.
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.
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 ...
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 of shotgun live-bird wing shooting .
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]
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 ...
In 1914, when the club was moved to a new location, Walker served on the project committee, the golf course committee and was a long-time board member. The club moved to Belle Meade, a suburb of Nashville, and was renamed "Belle Meade Country Club" in 1921.