Bel Air Golf Course

Overview: Bel Air Golf Course is a municipal nine-hole course in Tupelo, Mississippi. The regulation-length layout plays to par 36 and provides a compact parkland round in the middle of the city. Its scale is different from the 18-hole championship courses elsewhere in the Mississippi ranking, but that is part of the course’s identity: Bel Air is built around repeatable local play, straightforward holes and the chance to walk a complete nine-hole round. Public descriptions place the course at roughly 3,026 to 3,093 yards depending on the record and tee reference, so the live profile retains the current 3,093-yard value while avoiding a false claim of one universal measurement.

History: Bel Air has roots reaching back to the 1930s and is identified by local accounts as Tupelo’s original country-club course before becoming a city-owned municipal facility. Public course records disagree on the exact opening year, with 1936 and 1940 both appearing in established listings. The present profile therefore leaves year_opened blank rather than presenting one date as certain. No dependable architect attribution was found in the course-specific sources reviewed, so architect is also left blank. The course’s continuing role as a city facility is clearer than either historical detail.

Did You Know? Bel Air is a nine-hole course, but its scorecard includes a full par-36 sequence with five par fours, two par fives and two par threes. That gives the short municipal layout a complete variety of hole types rather than making it only a par-three or practice course.