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Big Stone Gap sits in the far southwestern corner of Virginia, deep in the coalfield country where the Powell Valley opens up between the Appalachian ridges. It's a working town with a strong identity — the setting for John Fox Jr.'s famous novel *The Trail of the Lonesome Pine* — and the country club takes its name directly from that literary and cultural heritage. Golf in this part of Virginia means terrain that doesn't sit still: the mountains shape every round here, and a layout threading through the ridges and hollows of Lee County carries a character you simply won't find in the flatlands.
Lonesome Pine Country Club is a private club serving a close-knit community that has long built its social life around the course. Par-71 layouts tend to reward precision over power, and in mountain terrain that calculus only sharpens — positioning off the tee matters, and the elevation changes that come with playing in the Appalachians add a layer of shot-making demand that no number fully captures.
Southwest Virginia doesn't attract golf tourists the way the Shenandoah Valley or Virginia Beach do, which means Lonesome Pine exists largely for the people who call this corner of the state home. There's something genuine about a club like that — a place where the membership knows every bounce, every prevailing wind off the ridgeline, and every story the course has accumulated over the decades.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue · men | 5,845 | 70.4 | 127 | 71 |
| White · men | 5,421 | 68.5 | 122 | 71 |
| Gold · men | 4,424 | 64.1 | 111 | 71 |
| Gold · women | 4,424 | 68 | 116 | 71 |
| Red · women | 4,224 | 67 | 114 | 71 |
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