Knoxville Golf Living Guide

Two of Knoxville's four researched clubs carry real Donald Ross pedigree (Holston Hills, 1927, and Cherokee Country Club, 1907/1910) and are frequently discussed together as the city's historic golf core, though they sit on opposite sides of the city and have different residential relationships to their surrounding neighborhoods. Fox Den and Gettysvue represent a later, more suburban model — both built specifically as the golf amenity for a planned residential development in the Farragut/west Knoxville corridor, decades after the two east-side and river-side historic clubs.

- **East Knoxville (Holston Hills).** The most historically documented golf-residential pairing in the market: Donald Ross's 1927 course and the surrounding neighborhood were developed together, bounded by the Holston River and Highway 11. - **West Knoxville river corridor (Cherokee Country Club / Sequoyah Hills).** Knoxville's old-guard, invitation-only club on a bend of the Tennessee River, next to one of the city's oldest and most established affluent neighborhoods (Sequoyah Hills, developed 1920s-1930s on a roughly 1,000-acre peninsula). - **Farragut / west Knoxville (Fox Den, Gettysvue).** Two later, more conventional golf-community developments roughly 3 miles apart: Fox Den (1968-69, member-owned, homes backing to fairways) and Gettysvue (1995, gated, built on the historic Gettysvue Farm site, now Heritage Golf Group-owned).

None of the four clubs bundle membership with home purchase. Cherokee Country Club is invitation-only with required member sponsorship — the strictest access model of the four. Holston Hills (McConnell Golf) and Gettysvue (Heritage Golf Group) are non-equity clubs owned by outside operators, with standard application-based membership open to qualified applicants regardless of address. Fox Den is member-owned (equity) with published initiation fee and dues figures ($25,000 initiation; $607/month Full Golf dues). In every case, living in the adjacent neighborhood gives proximity and, for three of the four (Holston Hills, Fox Den, Gettysvue), genuine physical/historical integration with the course — but never automatic or included membership.

Prices vary widely by pocket: Holston Hills homes run roughly $300K-$560K (median in the high-$300Ks to mid-$400Ks as of mid-2026); Sequoyah Hills, next to Cherokee Country Club, runs considerably higher, with a median around $900K; Fox Den spans a wide range from the $300Ks for older homes up to $1.75M+ for larger properties on the course; Gettysvue spans roughly the mid-$400Ks up to $2.5M for estate homes. None of these figures should be treated as precise current medians — see each community record's verification items.

The four clubs span three distinct parts of Knox County: Holston Hills on the east side, Cherokee Country Club on the Tennessee River west of downtown, and Fox Den/Gettysvue roughly 3 miles apart in the Farragut/west Knoxville corridor near the foothills of the Great Smoky and Cumberland Mountains.