Tanglewood Golf Club occupies a rolling tract of former farmland in Clemmons, North Carolina, where the original estate’s stone manor now serves as the clubhouse. The course was laid out by Ellis Maples in 1969 on a site shaped by the Yadkin River’s wide floodplain. Fairways follow the contours of former tobacco fields and are bordered by stands of mature hardwoods that turn bronze in late October. Several holes skirt the river’s oxbow lakes, where seasonal flooding occasionally deposits sand across the approaches. The greens are built to USGA standards and are overseeded each fall with rye to maintain color through the mild Piedmont winter. A network of drainage canals installed during the original construction still directs runoff from the surrounding ridges back into the river, keeping the low-lying fairways playable after heavy rains. The practice facility, located behind the manor, includes a large bent-grass putting green and a short-game area bordered by the same riverbank hardwoods that line much of the back nine.