Bryan Park Golf Course: Champions Course

Bryan Park's Champions Course was designed by Rees Jones and opened in 1990, earning runner-up honors on Golf Digest's Best New Public Courses list that year and hosting the 2010 U.S. Public Links Championship. The layout features 97 sand traps, numerous grass bunkers, and seven holes bordering Lake Townsend in Brown Summit, testing every shot-making skill on one of North Carolina's premier public tracks.

The Bryan Park complex traces its roots to 1974, when George Cobb — the architect behind Augusta National's Par-3 Course and dozens of notable Carolinas layouts — designed the Players Course for Guilford County on a topographically dramatic site hugging the western shore of Lake Townsend. Cobb's routing maximized the natural landforms, weaving fairways through rolling terrain and alongside the reservoir. The Players Course opened to immediate regional acclaim for its playability and its accessibility as a quality public layout in the Greensboro market. In 1988, Rees Jones returned to the Players Course for a significant redesign, sharpening the bunkering strategy and modernizing the infrastructure while preserving Cobb's original routing. Jones brought additional polish to the site that would set the stage for the second phase of Bryan Park's development.

The Champions Course opened in 1990 as an entirely new Rees Jones design, purpose-built to offer a more exacting championship test alongside the Players Course. With 97 sand bunkers, extensive grass hollows, and seven holes that play directly alongside Lake Townsend, Champions quickly earned national recognition. Golf Digest named it runner-up in the Best New Public Courses category for 1990, and the course has maintained consistent national rankings since. The facility expanded over subsequent years to include a full practice and learning center, a golf shop, a grill, and the Bryan Conference and Enrichment Center. Together, the 36-hole complex became a complete public golf destination in the Carolina Piedmont, drawing players from across the region and hosting numerous Carolinas PGA events.

Bryan Park Golf Course plays two championship courses — the Champions and Players layouts — in Brown Summit, North Carolina whose Guilford County setting in the Piedmont Triad region provides among the celebrated public golf facilities in the Carolinas. The Champions Course at Bryan Park is the more celebrated of the two layouts, a Rees Jones design whose championship credentials have earned recognition as among the top public courses in North Carolina from Golf Digest and other national publications. Jones's design uses the rolling Piedmont terrain and the natural lake character of the Bryan Park property to create a championship experience whose quality rivals many private clubs in the Triad region. The Brown Summit location in Guilford County, within the park system of Greensboro whose investment in quality public recreational facilities reflects the city's commitment to accessible recreation for all residents, positions Bryan Park as one of the premier public golf destinations in the Piedmont Triad. The Carolinas Golf Association includes Bryan Park among its member facilities, and the Jones design has hosted competitive events including major state-level championships consistent with the course's standing as one of North Carolina's most significant public course investments.

The combination of the Jones design, the lake character of the property, and the public access model creates a golf experience whose value proposition — championship-quality design at public pricing — rewards players who want serious Triad-area golf without the barriers of private club membership. For Guilford County golfers, Bryan Park's Champions Course delivers a nationally recognized public championship experience that has defined the standard for public golf quality in the Piedmont Triad region.