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Van Cleave sits in the piney woods of Jackson County, Mississippi, roughly midway between Mobile Bay and the Gulf Coast proper — a landscape defined by longleaf pine, sandy soil, and the kind of quiet that makes a round of golf feel genuinely removed from the world. This corner of the Deep South doesn't carry the same golf tourism profile as the Mississippi Gulf Coast's casino corridors to the south, which means courses out here tend to serve a local and regional audience who value the setting on its own terms.
The name "The Preserve" signals an intention to work with that natural environment rather than against it — a design philosophy common to courses built into Southern woodland, where tree-framed fairways and sandy native areas do the heavy lifting that manufactured features might handle elsewhere. A par 71 layout suggests at least one unconventional pairing of holes, and likely rewards shot-making and course management over pure distance.
For anyone exploring the golf landscape between Mobile and the Gulf Coast, Jackson County offers a slower pace and a more honest relationship with the land than the resort-driven options nearby.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black · men | 6,774 | 72.6 | 138 | 71 |
| Blue · men | 6,435 | 70.5 | 135 | 71 |
| White · men | 6,260 | 69.8 | 131 | 71 |
| Green · men | 5,493 | 65.5 | 115 | 71 |
| Green · women | 5,493 | 71.3 | 127 | 71 |
| Red · women | 4,843 | 67.5 | 117 | 71 |
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