The Old Waverly Club issued the following press release.
Old Waverly Club announced today the reopening of Mossy Oak Golf Course, the Gil Hanse design that is consistently ranked among the top two courses in Mississippi. After a yearlong closure, Mossy Oak is ready to welcome members and their guests back to a course transformed into one of the premier golf experiences in the region. World renowned professional golfer and businessman, Jerry Pate, spent most of 2025 guiding and overseeing enhancements to the facilities. “Gil Hanse routed and strategized one of his finest works on a beautiful site of rolling farmland in the Mississippi countryside. Challenging bunkers with traditional links-style greens that lay gently into the existing contours of the land make for a memorable experience at Mossy Oak,” said Pate. The renovation of Mossy Oak included a complete reconstruction of all bunkers, lengthening of the course, re-grassing of the greens with TifEagle, and upgrading of cart paths throughout. The reopening also marks an exciting new chapter for Old Waverly Club. A new ownership group, led by Pate as Chairman and joined by the Bryan family and a small group of investors, brings Mossy Oak and Old Waverly under one umbrella. These courses provide one of the most diverse and unique golf offerings in the country. Since its founding in 1988, Old Waverly has been highly regarded as one of the truly unique private clubs in the United States. The vision of late founder, George Bryan, was to bring a piece of Scotland to Mississippi and create a world-class destination for golf and hospitality in the heart of the state. In 1986, Pate and Bob Cupp were enlisted to craft the Old Waverly course from the undeveloped 360 acres of natural forest and pastureland. It opened in September 1988 to rave reviews and has been a fixture among various “Best Of” lists, including recognition as the top golf course in Mississippi. The club has also hosted numerous major golf championships, including the 1999 U.S. Women’s Open, the 2006 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, the 2019 U. S. Women’s Amateur, and the 2015 and 2021 Men’s Southern Amateur Championships. In 2016, the club’s experience was elevated with the opening of Mossy Oak, located just across the street from Old Waverly. Brought to life by designer Gil Hanse, Mossy Oak quickly became one of the most revered golf courses in all the U.S. and was recognized in 2018 as one of Golfweek magazine’s Top-100 Modern Golf Courses in the U.S. Mossy Oak also serves as the official golf facility for the Mississippi State University men’s and women’s golf teams. Offering two distinct, world-class golf courses, luxurious accommodations and unrivaled Southern hospitality, Old Waverly has emerged as the premier golf destination in the South.
About Old Waverly
Founded in 1988 by George Bryan, Old Waverly is one of the South’s premier private golf and hospitality destinations, offering world-class golf, luxurious accommodations, and unparalleled southern hospitality. The club’s signature courses include the original Old Waverly Golf Course, designed by U.S. Open Champion, Jerry Pate, and Bob Cupp, and the Gil Hanse-designed Mossy Oak Golf Course. Old Waverly has hosted prestigious national championships, including the U.S. Women’s Open and the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, and serves as the practice facility for Mississippi State University’s men’s and women’s golf teams. Guided by a commitment to excellence, Old Waverly continues to provide members and guests with a world-class golfing and hospitality experience in the heart of Mississippi. For more information about Old Waverly, visit www.oldwaverly.com.
28 comments:
That’s awesome. Beautiful place. I hope there are enough billionaires to wander around and play these courses cause 90% of the people in that area can’t afford the cart fee.
Golf isn’t a sport it’s a game It takes great skill but not athletic ability
90% if people are fat and need to walk
Heaven forbid there should be anything nice in this state. Y'all bitch it's a backwoods state with nothing nice then when there is something nice, you bitch anyway.
So KF, how does it operate without money? People are just stating the facts. Why do you think Mississippi was the last state in the lower 48 to get a Top Golf? You live in a shithole! And you-know-who is already ruining it. Remember your twerk-off video? What do you call that?! You posted it!
Top Golf does not operate in every lower 48 state. Nice try tho.
And their recent earnings expose that they probably won’t make it further than Mississippi.
My husband and I like to go to Old Waverly. He plays golf while I visit old friends in Tupelo. We rent one of the condos on the course for overnight stays. The restaurant has always been very good.
Old Waverly & Mossy Oak are top notch facilities, and we are blessed to have them so close to Starkville. Mississippi's coastal courses (Fallen Oak, The Preserve, Grand Bear) are incredible too. And mostly unheard of!
You are mistaken 11:48am. Hand/eye coordination is an athletic trait and it takes an incredibly high amount of that skill….especially these days. Go look at a college golf team in the SEC. Some of those boys look like they could be playing free safety. Every program I had interaction with over the recent years only recruited kids that played other sports as well. Of course there are exceptions but the really good golfers of today (professional and potential professional) are hitting a round surface with a flat surface at a precision point smaller than a BB….at 125MPH+. That takes more than skill.
Golf at your level and what you know may not be athletic, but at the highest level it take incredible athletic ability to do what they do. Catch up. Tiger completely changed the game about 25 years ago now.
Fat and out of shape fat people play golf. I know they are no tiger wood but still they play. Even people in there 70s play. It’s a game that requires great skill but not athleticism
I guess now bowling is a sport
I wish they would build something the average person could afford to use
It amazes me that people have so much time to bitch about things that they could be using their time to be a constructive member of society. Bashing Mississippi? I moved here in '70. There has been more opportunity here for me that I ever could have found in any other overly populated state. I work for a living & have raised two kids, a doctor & an engineer & did it without loans. I've done very well here...Thank you very much!
Education has become unaffordable for a lot of people even with loans you become a slave to debt
I seriously doubt the average person from Mississippi can afford to use it It will be used by only Mississippi rich and out of state people
Truth is we want nice things we can afford this is only for the rich
I stand by my assessment. I am around the game at a high level. Even those guys like Craig stadler were the fat kid on the team growing up that was always the best 1-2 players.
Two fat asses throwing the football in the front yard or on the beach with decent skill doesn’t make football non-athletic just because they aren’t doing it like a pro. Same thing. We are talking two different games. It takes incredible mental fortitude and concentration, “skill”, and extreme athleticism to play the game of golf at a high level. Watch the footwork and timing….and high high speeds.
You know not of what you speak. Fat old men hitting a ball 80 to 130 times is a game not a sport. Playing in the SEC (or ACC or Big 10, etc) or professional is a sport and take a high degree of athleticism.
Ask any professional athlete. I can tell y’all are very unfamiliar with the massive difference….in all sorts. Hell, just in running you see it. We can all run (relatively speaking). Some of us are just much faster (were….not now). And some run in a completely different speed and manner and they are professionals and the best in the world. Just because everyone runs doesn’t make the pros any less athletic.
Any true athlete understands.
Another ole miss grad
Golf for ole miss grads bowling for the rest of us
Golf requires swing speed, strength and elite eye hand coordination to be a high level player. Fat and out of shape people can play any sport.
Just ask Michael Jordan. Unbelievable athletic basketball player, below average baseball player - would not ever make it on the lower professional golf ranks much less the PGA Tour. You are uninformed and misguided.
Most of what you rubes call “sports” are simply games. Fishing, that’s a sport. Hunting, that’s a sport. Rock climbing, a sport. Running up and down a pasture in spandex to satisfy Bubba’s homoerotic fantasies, that’s a game. If its results are measured in points, it’s a game.
Not one word in this entire post about WHERE the hell it is....sheesh.
KF, it’s the mentality of some people that live here. “I’m a poor man, will always be a poor man in Mississippi” mentality that will keep these people poor. No matter what we have in this state, some people will criticize the progress.
October 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Not of they paid attention in what amounts to daycare these days.
The negative Nancie’s and Debbie downers are out in full force. Sheeran. There are some miserable people in this world…
At the end of the day both of these courses are wonderful but IMO have priced themselves WAY to high. Last I checked you are gonna drop a hundred to play either one. I suggest getting the cottage package deal if they still have that. Ummmm, Mossy Oak was already brand new, why did it close for a year ?
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