Few public golf facilities in the American South carry the pedigree of Tanglewood Park, the Forsyth County property that hosts this course. The Championship Course was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., one of the most influential architects in golf history, and it has earned its reputation many times over — most notably as the site of the 1974 PGA Championship, won by Lee Trevino. That alone places it in a category most public tracks never approach.
Jones shaped a layout that demands strategic thinking from the first tee, routing holes through mature hardwoods and across rolling Piedmont terrain. The par 70 is deceptively demanding — shorter on paper than many championship venues, but with a routing and set of greens complexes that reward precise ball-striking and punish overconfidence.
Clemmons sits just west of Winston-Salem in the North Carolina Piedmont, a region with a strong golf culture and four distinct seasons. Conditions here shift meaningfully between a crisp spring morning and a humid August afternoon, and the course wears each one differently.
