The longest course in the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA combined area is The Olde Farm Golf Club, at 7,119 yards — ahead of Glenrochie Country Club at 6,855 yards and Ridgefields Country Club at 6,809 yards.
All 23 courses in the area with a published scorecard are ranked below, along with 2 more lists: widest tee spread, highest above sea level.
Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA is a combined statistical area as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates it, crossing Tennessee and Virginia — the boundary is theirs, not ours. Each list counts only the courses in the area that publish that figure, so the totals differ between them. Slope and course rating measure difficulty, not quality — nothing here ranks how good a course is.
Longest
— all 23 courses with a published scorecard
| # | Course | State | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Olde Farm Golf Club | VA | 7,119 yds |
| 2 | Glenrochie Country Club | VA | 6,855 yds |
| 3 | Ridgefields Country Club | TN | 6,809 yds |
| 4 | Link Hills Country Club | TN | 6,733 yds |
| 5 | Twin Creeks Golf Course | TN | 6,630 yds |
| 6 | Buffalo Valley Golf Course | TN | 6,624 yds |
| 7 | Warriors Path State Park Golf Course | TN | 6,601 yds |
| 8 | Pines Lake at Tri Cities Golf Course | TN | 6,538 yds |
| 9 | The Crossings Golf Club | TN | 6,535 yds |
| 10 | Clear Creek Golf Club | VA | 6,516 yds |
| 11 | Lake Woods at Tri Cities Golf Course | TN | 6,483 yds |
| 12 | The Golf Club of Bristol | TN | 6,474 yds |
| 13 | Woods Pines at Tri Cities Golf Course | TN | 6,421 yds |
| 14 | Baileyton Golf Club | TN | 6,379 yds |
| 15 | Mcdonald Hills Golf Club | TN | 6,152 yds |
| 16 | Andrew Johnson Golf Club | TN | 6,103 yds |
| 17 | Nolichucky View Golf Club | TN | 6,085 yds |
| 18 | Greenway Creek Golf Course | VA | 5,970 yds |
| 19 | Scott County Park Golf | VA | 3,067 yds |
| 19 | Scott County Park Golf | VA | 3,067 yds |
| 21 | Bays Mountain Golf Club | TN | 3,065 yds |
| 22 | Steel Creek Golf Course | TN | 2,779 yds |
| 23 | Deer Field Golf Course | VA | 2,545 yds |
The longest tee set the course publishes, in yards from the tips. Compared against every course that publishes a scorecard — length is a measurement, not a verdict on the golf.
Widest tee spread
— all 23 courses with two or more tee sets of different lengths
| # | Course | State | Widest tee spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Olde Farm Golf Club | VA | 2,346 yds between tees |
| 2 | The Golf Club of Bristol | TN | 1,924 yds between tees |
| 3 | Clear Creek Golf Club | VA | 1,851 yds between tees |
| 4 | Glenrochie Country Club | VA | 1,796 yds between tees |
| 5 | Ridgefields Country Club | TN | 1,740 yds between tees |
| 6 | Pines Lake at Tri Cities Golf Course | TN | 1,705 yds between tees |
| 7 | Woods Pines at Tri Cities Golf Course | TN | 1,701 yds between tees |
| 8 | Lake Woods at Tri Cities Golf Course | TN | 1,675 yds between tees |
| 9 | Buffalo Valley Golf Course | TN | 1,672 yds between tees |
| 10 | The Crossings Golf Club | TN | 1,568 yds between tees |
| 11 | Link Hills Country Club | TN | 1,468 yds between tees |
| 12 | Warriors Path State Park Golf Course | TN | 1,397 yds between tees |
| 13 | Andrew Johnson Golf Club | TN | 1,327 yds between tees |
| 14 | Twin Creeks Golf Course | TN | 1,285 yds between tees |
| 15 | Baileyton Golf Club | TN | 1,265 yds between tees |
| 16 | Mcdonald Hills Golf Club | TN | 1,160 yds between tees |
| 17 | Nolichucky View Golf Club | TN | 1,002 yds between tees |
| 18 | Scott County Park Golf | VA | 941 yds between tees |
| 18 | Scott County Park Golf | VA | 941 yds between tees |
| 20 | Steel Creek Golf Course | TN | 744 yds between tees |
| 21 | Bays Mountain Golf Club | TN | 615 yds between tees |
| 22 | Deer Field Golf Course | VA | 565 yds between tees |
| 23 | Greenway Creek Golf Course | VA | 236 yds between tees |
Yards between the longest and shortest published tee sets — how far the course moves to fit a different player. Courses publishing a single tee set are not in the running, because one set is an unmeasured spread rather than a narrow one.
Highest above sea level
— all 23 courses with a coordinate we could sample
| # | Course | State | Highest above sea level |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deer Field Golf Course | VA | 2,124 ft |
| 2 | Glenrochie Country Club | VA | 2,060 ft |
| 3 | Greenway Creek Golf Course | VA | 2,033 ft |
| 4 | The Olde Farm Golf Club | VA | 1,969 ft |
| 5 | Clear Creek Golf Club | VA | 1,954 ft |
| 6 | The Crossings Golf Club | TN | 1,890 ft |
| 7 | Scott County Park Golf | VA | 1,862 ft |
| 8 | The Golf Club of Bristol | TN | 1,853 ft |
| 9 | Buffalo Valley Golf Course | TN | 1,845 ft |
| 10 | Scott County Park Golf | VA | 1,820 ft |
| 11 | Steel Creek Golf Course | TN | 1,657 ft |
| 12 | Lake Woods at Tri Cities Golf Course | TN | 1,545 ft |
| 13 | Woods Pines at Tri Cities Golf Course | TN | 1,543 ft |
| 14 | Pines Lake at Tri Cities Golf Course | TN | 1,500 ft |
| 15 | Twin Creeks Golf Course | TN | 1,492 ft |
| 16 | Andrew Johnson Golf Club | TN | 1,490 ft |
| 17 | Warriors Path State Park Golf Course | TN | 1,419 ft |
| 18 | Link Hills Country Club | TN | 1,340 ft |
| 19 | Nolichucky View Golf Club | TN | 1,331 ft |
| 20 | Baileyton Golf Club | TN | 1,272 ft |
| 21 | Mcdonald Hills Golf Club | TN | 1,244 ft |
| 22 | Ridgefields Country Club | TN | 1,221 ft |
| 23 | Bays Mountain Golf Club | TN | 1,209 ft |
Height above sea level at the course’s own published coordinate, sampled from the USGS 3DEP elevation model. THIS IS A FIGURE WE DERIVED, not one the course publishes — anybody can re-query the same public dataset at the same coordinate and get the same number, but no scorecard states it. Because every course carries a coordinate, this is the only board here whose field is nearly the whole database rather than the courses that publish a particular figure. Elevation changes how far a ball carries; it says nothing about whether a course is good.