Bermuda Run Country Club: West Course

The West Course at Bermuda Run Country Club, opened in 2000, was designed by Dan Maples in collaboration with Don Charles. It complements the original East Course (1971) by Ellis Maples and reflects a more modern parkland layout in the Yadkin Valley.

Bermuda Run Country Club traces its origins to the early 1970s, when homebuilder and retail center developer Bill Satterfield set out to create one of North Carolina's earliest golf course neighborhoods on former farmland in Davie County. The club's distinctive name comes from the project's grading phase, when Satterfield reportedly said he was going to plant Bermuda and just let it run. The East Course, designed by Ellis Maples, opened in 1971 and quickly became the centerpiece of the community. By the late 1990s, demand among members prompted the club to expand to 36 holes. The West Course, designed by Dan Maples working with Don Charles, opened in 2000. Dan Maples, the son of Ellis Maples and grandson of Donald Ross foreman Frank Maples, brought the family's lineage of parkland design to the second 18. The West Course plays to a par of 70 over roughly 6,534 yards from the back tees and is built around a routing through North Carolina's characteristic rolling piedmont terrain and mature hardwoods. Bermuda Run Country Club operates today as a private member-owned club, having been acquired by Invited Clubs (formerly ClubCorp). The two courses are routinely listed among North Carolina's notable private layouts, with the September 2002 Triad Business News ranking the East Course second in its listing of the Carolinas' top-ranked courses. Together the East and West courses give the club a full-scale 36-hole facility where two generations of the Maples family are represented — Ellis on the original 18, and Dan on the West Course that opened nearly three decades later.