Big Creek Golf & Country Club

Big Creek Golf & Country Club is an 18-hole championship layout carved through the Ozark highlands of north-central Arkansas. Designed by Tom Clark of Ault, Clark & Associates and opened in 2000, the course has earned multi-year recognition from Golf Digest and Golfweek as the top public course in the state.

Big Creek Golf and Country Club opened in 2000 as the centerpiece of an expansive golf course community in Mountain Home, Arkansas, set in the rolling Ozark hills of Baxter County. Designed by Thomas Clark of Ault, Clark and Associates — a firm with a distinguished record of public and resort course design across the United States — the course was developed by Mountain Land Group, LLC on 200 acres of Ozark terrain with four lakes, the namesake Big Creek waterway, and an elevation range that provides the kind of topographic drama that distinguishes Ozark golf from the flat-terrain layouts common elsewhere in the South. Thomas Clark's design at Big Creek received national recognition that established the course as one of the premier public-access golf experiences in Arkansas.

Golfweek rated it the number one public course in Arkansas across multiple years. Golf Digest awarded it a five-star "Places to Play" designation — among the sought-after marks a public facility can receive, representing courses in the top tier of public-access golf in America. Readers of Arkansas Business magazine also voted it Arkansas's top public course, making Big Creek a consensus pick across multiple evaluative frameworks.

The course's physical character reflects Clark's ability to route holes that use the Ozark terrain to maximum effect. Zoysia fairways and bentgrass greens provide superior playing conditions appropriate to the Ozark climate, while white sand bunkers frame the greenside hazards that define the course's strategic personality. Four lakes come into play throughout the routing, adding water hazard elements to the elevation changes and wooded corridors that give Big Creek its distinctive character.

Clark himself was subsequently recognized for his body of work in the region when he was inducted into the Arkansas State Golf Association's Hall of Fame — a recognition that validated his contributions to the state's golf infrastructure and specifically acknowledged the impact of his design work at Big Creek. Mountain Home sits at the confluence of Norfork Lake and Bull Shoals Lake in northern Arkansas, a recreation-focused region that attracts fishing and outdoor enthusiasts from across the midwest. Big Creek Golf and Country Club serves both permanent residents and the substantial seasonal visitor population that makes this corner of Arkansas one of the state's more active tourism destinations.