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| One of the Fines Public Golf Courses in Virginia! | Call (540) 980-GOLF for Tee Times | |||||||||||
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Located in the
beautiful Southwestern Virginia mountains in Draper Valley, this public
course features lush Bluegrass fairways with bent grass greens and
tees. As an additional challenge, water comes into play on nine
holes, and yardage from the blue markers is well over 7,000 yards.
A Championship 18 Hole Course, Draper Valley Golf Club players enjoy panoramic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains while playing. A putting green and driving range is also open to the public. Draper Valley Golf Club is also available for large and small group or corporate outings. |
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| The Pro Shop offers a
full line of golf equipment and accessories, and the Snack Bar is readily
available for snacks, sandwiches and drinks.
Draper Valley Golf Club is easily accessible from Interstate 81 by taking either exit 86 or 89B and following the service road to the main entrance. |
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| One of the few public golf courses around, Draper Valley Golf Club offers a welcome retreat for a good day of golf for any lover of the game, and participants from every state and Canada are calling for tee times to enjoy the Blue ridge mountain scenery, the history, and the challenge presented playing this beautiful course. | ||||||||||||
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| Draper Valley Golf Club is easily is situated on land deeply rooted in primitive and early Virginia history. Evidence discovered during course construction shows that primitive man had selected this site for settlement several thousand years ago. |  |
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| John Draper and
William Ingles were the first permanent settlers on the waters of the New
River, originally settling at Draper Meadows, the current site of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University. About 1775, Draper moved
his family some 20 miles west near the present dividing line between
Pulaski and Wythe Counties, calling his new settlement Draper
Valley. After Draper's Wife Betty died in 1774, Draper remarried in
1776 to the widow of Major Samuel Crockett, Mrs. Jean Armstrong Crockett.
The original log house now serving as the temporary club house is known as the "Ole Crockett Place". Built in 1775, the older part of the home features stained rafters of walnut, a Joseph Swoope hand-carved mantle, floors of oak planks, walnut wainscoting and hand-hewn walnut posts. |
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A newspaper article from April of 1938 explains an intriguing name attached to the house for almost 100 years. Known as "Bachelor's Retreat", the property was home to lovely ladies around 1825, and young bloods from near and far came a-courting. Coy belles led ardent pursuers a merry chase, with Miss Susan Draper boasting of 32 offers of marriage and Miss Jane, her sister, of 31. When life seemed too drear, the rejected and dejected sought consolation there. For weeks at a time, says the story, love-lorn swains gathered beneath the friendly Crockett roof and there received the cheer that cheers. So the name, "Bachelor's Retreat". | |||||||||||
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| Draper Valley Golf Club is conveniently located beside Interstate 81 in Pulaski County. Outlet shopping and a good selection of motels and restaurants can be found nearby for the traveler wanting to stay in the area for a few days. | ||||||||||||
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