The Spring Meeting
Experience the club’s camaraderie in its purest form at Sweetens Cove Golf Club.
At the Secret Home Of Golf
We are the only club that has access to Sweetens Cove in this way. We’re so thankful to have a meaningful connection to everyone at Sweetens and continue to support each other in the world of golf.
Spring Meeting: The Film
See what it’s like first-hand to play and experience a Spring Meeting. Narrated by designer/architect Rob Collins and General Manager Matt Adamski.
Two full days of golf
The Spring Meeting features open play and team competition golf from sunrise to sunset for two straight days. Here’s our general itinerary:
Day 1
8:30am - Welcome to the Spring Meeting
8:45am - Opening Ceremony & Customary Sweetens Greetings by Matt Adamski
9:00am - Open play
1:30pm - Lunch at Gazebo
2:30pm - Competition round 1
5:30pm - Competition round 2
7:30pm - Open play until dark/dinner
8:30pm - Dinner at the Gazebo
Day 2
8:00am - Breakfast at the Gazebo
8:45am - Competition round 3
11:00am - Competition round 4 (final before the shootout)
1:30pm - Lunch at Gazebo
2:30pm - The Shootout for Spring Meeting Championship
3:30pm - Open play
8:00pm - Closing dinner
Competition Round Formats (9 holes each)
Progressive best ball — Par 3s: take the best 3 scores, Par 4s: take the best 4 scores, Par 5s: take the best 5 scores. Standard routing, blue pin.
Pick 4 Clubs — Take your pick of 4 clubs from your bag (putter counts as a club) and take the best 4 scores from your team. Standard routing, white pin.
Illuminati Best Ball — Navigate the secret “Illuminati” routing at Sweetens Cove and take your team’s best 4 scores. Blue pin.
All Scores Best Ball — All scores on the team count, no one can hide! Standard routing, pick your pin at any point in the hole.
The Shootout — The top 4 teams compete in a single-elimination alternate shot extravaganza. The team with the highest score is eliminated. If the highest score is a tie, there will be closest-to-the-pin blind chip off, where the tying team selects one team representative to chip.
Teams must pick their shot order and stick to that order throughout the entire shootout (if the 4th person holes the putt, the 5th person tees off on the next hole). The team at NewClub selects a special 4-hole routing and the pin.
Rules
All scoring must be entered into Golf Genius
Enter only gross (non-handicapped) scores. The system automatically calculates handicaps and you will see dots where you get strokes.
Stableford scoring is net (handicapped) using 85% handicaps
Ties broken by the best overall team score in the most recent competition round. Which team scored the most in competition round 4? If a tie, move to round 3, and so on.
Men play from the blue tees, women from the red tees.
The Competition
The competition at the Spring Meeting culminates to the alternate-shot Shootout, where teams play single-elimination alt shot for the Spring Meeting Quaich (a perennial trophy).
The 6 players also win a custom prize that can vary from year to year.
(In 2025, the prize will be a custom persimmon driver from Jackson Kemper.)
Teams
Teams of 6 players
Blind draw for teams to evenly spread handicap levels
Format: Team Stableford
Aggregate team Stableford points
Hole in one = 25 points
Double Eagle = 8 points
Eagle = 3 points
Birdie = 2 points
Par = 1 points
Bogey = 0 point
Double Bogey or Worse = -1 Point
Listen up.
All of the latest podcast episodes on Sweetens Cove and The Spring Meeting. Featuring Rob Collins, Matt Adamski, Kevin Moore, Jim Harstell, and more.
“When you make the pilgrimage to South Pittsburg, Tennessee, you can be promised an experience ripe with personality on and off the course. Sweetens Cove truly goes back to golf’s roots; it is deconstructive, it is far from the production line, and doesn’t have the amenities typically associated with a top 100 course. Instead, the course is natural in all its surroundings, making it truly remarkable.”
— Kevin Moore, The Bag Drop Co-host
