Crewe Country Club

Southside Virginia golf tends to be unhurried and unpretentious. The terrain in this part of the state is gently rolling Piedmont, with mixed pine and hardwood that frames fairways and gives courses a quiet, wooded character through the seasons. Summers run hot and humid, which means Bermuda-grass fairways and the kind of afternoon thunderstorm that clears as fast as it arrives.

For members, this is almost certainly the course where handicaps are built and friendships are maintained over decades — the private club in a small town playing exactly the role it was always meant to play.