Hey everyone, the @HighCottonClub is getting ready to kick off our 2022-23 season at the end of the month in Southern Tennessee at Bear Trace. We would love to have some of y’all if you’re interest! The event involves a round of golf and then a float trip to follow! Feel free to reach out to @leftysauce or myself if you have any questions!
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Hey y’all, just reaching out in case anyone is interested, sign ups are due by this Friday. We would love to have some more folks out, so please reach out to @leftysauce and I if you have any questions!
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Got some buddies interested in a trip to Mossy Oak/Waverly next fall. We do a big group 16-20 each year, this year pinehurst. My question is it worth it for us all to come down there, stay 3 nights play 36 two days in a row? Looks sweet to me but have no first hand knowledge. We’d all have to fly in etc.
Anyone done the stay and play, good for a group that loves to golf and loves to hangout/drink together after just as much?
Thanks!
Just got back from a trip in July with 8 of us. We played 18 at Waverly Friday afternoon, 27 at Mossy Oak on Saturday and then 18 at Waverly Sunday morning. Stayed in the Junior Cottage at Waverly. The cabins on #10 at Mossy were sold out but the Junior Cottage was great too. You walk out your door and are on the short game area by the range.
As far as the courses go they both complement each other very well. Mossy is obviously un like anything in our area. Gill Hanse, big ball park, crazy greens, but fun as hell if you play the right tees. I would recommend a fore caddy for one round if it’s your first time playing. It’s not that much money and you can split it in a 4some. Waverly is more traditional and would be the one I would choose to play every day if I had to. Give me ten rounds I’m playing 7 at Waverly and 3 at Mossy Oak.
I would recommend getting dinner at Anthony’s in West Point (5 min drive from either Mossy/Waverly) you can brown bag and its a great meal and hang. If you want to eat dinner at the club house at Waverly one night make sure to make reservations. They do breakfast buffet in the mornings and Fried Chicken Blue Plate on Friday afternoon. New clubhouse at Mossy Oak finished last year and has an awesome upstairs bar overlooking the whole property.
We all drove in from Memphis, Nashville, and Jackson MS. If you fly in you will be going to GTR in Columbus which is about 15 minute drive. I believe they have a shuttle at Waverly that might could get you and take you across the street to Mossy.
If you need a contact, I have all the info for the new marketing director of Mossy/Waverly I can pm you it.
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Mississippi friends - looking for some help with a non-golf trip.
Headed to Starkville next weekend. Staying in Columbus. Really no plans outside of walking through campus, taking a walk through the Ulysses S Grant Presidential Library, and just seeing what the vibe is.
Any recommendations for Saturday breakfast or Friday dinner? Any bars we need to make sure we check out?
I’ll send over my recommended itinerary over in a bit. I will be there next weekend as well.
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I lived in Columbus for 10 years. I was a member at OW. Still to this day my favorite daily playable course and favorite club I’ve ever belonged to.
Many weekdays I was the only person on the course at all.
Here are some of the recommendations that I give everyone. Everything I’m recommending flows from campus to the cotton district to downtown and back but there are plenty of other great spots around town too.
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Two Brothers (probably my top recommendation personally) is a must for drinks as well as food (pork rind nachos, white BBQ chicken tacos, cheese fries, etc). This is in the cotton district with a lot of other bars and restaurants so feel free to bounce around in this area. My second favorite place in the cotton district is the Bin which is right across the street. Sitting on the patio for either one of these places is an amazing people watching experience. FYI cotton district is walkable to stadium (~10 minutes). My advice is to park there and walk everywhere from campus to downtown. Not a bad walk in my opinion.
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If you’re feeling coffee, you got to get StrangeBrew. Main location on highway 12 going into campus or there’s a Midtown location between the cotton district and downtown.
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If you want to do a fancy drink and great apps (old fashion, etc.), there’s a speakeasy called the Guest Room under Restaurant Tyler that you can access from the back alleyway (haha not as weird as it sounds I promise). Definitely a dim atmosphere but chill vibe.
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Humble Taco is great. I’ve only been once as it’s fairly new. It’s a Mexican restaurant but puts a southern twist on most of the dishes that is unique.
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BBQ at Little Dooey’s is great and it’s the place all the football commentators or the Gameday folks always talk about when they come to town.
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Breakfast at Starkville cafe is a must if you have time. Get there early as there tends to be a line.
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Almost forgot about Stromboli’s which is a Starkville staple. If you’re feeling pizza, calzones, etc. this is your spot. You have to get the cookie dough bites for dessert. Place is extremely small as in it only has about 10 tables in the restaurant.
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@JCO gave me the same list when I was there a few weeks ago. Bin 612 is a great people watching spot while enjoying some cheese fries and ice cold beers. Dapper Doughnut was a short walk from my hotel and was delightful.
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Got a buddy gonna be in Starkville for the UGA game Saturday. Any suggestions for a good public track he can play? He’s a high handicapper so just looking for a quality course for a good deal
The university’s golf course is pretty fun.
Second, the University Course recommendation, which is newly renovated. Still haven’t made it to Mossy Oak some how, but from what I heard is that it is very wide out there and even a high handicapper would have a good time.
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Mossy Oak fuqs
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Want to close the loop and just say - Starkville is a Top 3 SEC visit for me. Loved it. The campus, specifically the Drill Field was awesome.
Tailgating was great, fans were great, Cowbells were great.
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Hey all, sorry to highjack the thread here but I’m driving from Kansas to Destin and stopping for the first leg of the trip in Vicksburg on 5/28/29. I would like to play in the next morning (5/29) but don’t have a tee time anywhere. Would gladly take any recs or if anyone in that area is available to play, hit me up. Appreciate it!
Hello friends.
Anyone here know a good teaching pro in either Oxford or Clarksdale who would be willing to help give my guy Wright Thompson some lessons? He’s not really interested in being good at good, only not embarrassing himself. And he needs someone he can feel comfortable with. Hit me up in the DMs if you know a good teaching pro who can help an un-athletic but brilliant writer.
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Mississippi! The High Cotton Club wants YOU!
Coming off a second straight finals appearance in the Roost Club Championship, the state of Mississippi was a regular topic of conversation. We have proudly visited Mossy Oak and Old Waverly twice (since March!) and already have our return trip planned for The Mother Clucker March 15-17.
With one of the best events of the year in your home state, events in Alabama within driving range, and a myriad of other events to pick from, plus local meetups, a localized online community via discord, and the best merch game around, we look forward to serving you!
It’s about more than golf around here, and we hope you’ll join to see what we mean. Reach out for a link to our Discord to join and help the High Cotton Club continue our pursuit of improving 1% every day
Got dammit I’m 51 and you’re gonna make me have to learn how to use discord to get involved?!? Ship that sherbert to herbert, I want in on the motherclucker.
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