High Point Country Club (Emerywood)

Overview: Emerywood is the nine-hole Donald Ross course on the downtown campus of High Point Country Club in High Point, North Carolina. The exact-address club sources describe it as a private practice and playing course, while High Point University identifies the routing as par 33 and 2,569 yards. The setting is compact and urban compared with the club’s separate Willow Creek campus, but the Ross name and the small, shaped putting surfaces give Emerywood a clear architectural identity. This profile describes Emerywood only; it does not present the nine-hole course as the 18-hole Willow Creek layout named in the ranking reference.

History: High Point Country Club has been a private club since 1923, and the club’s historical material identifies the nine-hole Emerywood course as one of the original attractions of the downtown campus. Donald Ross designed the course, which remains part of a two-campus club whose other golf facility is the 18-hole Willow Creek course. High Point University uses Emerywood for practice and situational work, while the club’s own current page confirms that the campus still contains a nine-hole golf course. The exact course date is therefore reported as 1923, the club’s documented opening year, with the identity distinction kept visible because the ranking label references Willow Creek.

Did You Know? Emerywood is not simply a shortened version of Willow Creek. It is a separate nine-hole Ross course at the original High Point campus, while Willow Creek is the club’s 18-hole course a few miles away and was designed by Willard C. Byrd.