Community
No ratings yet
Sign up and review 3 courses to unlock your For You Score.
Fort Smith sits at the confluence of the Arkansas and Poteau Rivers, right where the Ozark highlands begin to soften into the Arkansas River Valley — terrain that tends to produce golf courses with genuine topographic variety, shaded corridors, and a sense of the working, unhurried South. Magnolia-Willow, as the hyphenated name suggests, reads like a pairing of two distinct nines, the kind of naming convention that often signals a facility grown over time rather than built all at once, with each half carrying its own personality.
As a public course in a mid-sized Arkansas city, Magnolia-Willow occupies a role familiar to regional golf: the everyday layout where locals build their games, rivalries are settled over decades, and the bar for a good afternoon is simply a well-struck iron and decent company. Fort Smith has a long civic identity — as a frontier outpost, a federal court town, and a gateway city — and its municipal golf tends to reflect that same no-nonsense character.
Par-72 layouts in this part of the country often balance open, scoring-friendly stretches with tighter tree-lined holes where the native hardwoods do the heavy lifting. Whether the magnolias and willows are literal features of the landscape here or simply evocative names, they point toward a course rooted in the natural character of the Arkansas lowlands.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue · men | 6,781 | 72.7 | 133 | 72 |
| White · men | 6,361 | 71.2 | 127 | 72 |
| Gold · men | 5,658 | 67.5 | 119 | 72 |
| Red · women | 4,983 | 69.9 | 117 | 72 |
No scores yet
Be the first to log a round here.
