Roaring Gap Club

Perched on the Alleghany escarpment above Stone Mountain State Park, Roaring Gap Club is a private summer club whose walkable Donald Ross course threads along mountaintop ridges and shelves with long views toward the Blue Ridge. The golf core is complemented by a traditional clubhouse, golf shop, seasonally active practice field and putting surfaces (range stations are typically limited by the site’s compact plateau), and member-forward dining spaces that emphasize the outdoor setting. The course plays firm and fast in summer, with altitude and ever-present breezes shaping club selection; elevation changes are frequent but rarely severe, and the corridors are framed by native hardwoods that have been selectively thinned over the last two decades to recover historic lines of play and vistas. Tee sets today yield a championship yardage in the mid-6,400s at par 72, with an accessible forward set near 5,100 yards. Play is restricted to members and their guests; the club’s events calendar leans to Carolinas Golf Association (CGA) championships and invitationals rather than national championships. Visitors who see the course on a hosted round encounter compact greens with interior tilt, restored cross-bunkering on several holes, and a routing whose sequencing—short-to-medium par-4s punctuated by stout par-3s and reachable par-5s—feels unmistakably of the late 1920s Ross idiom.