Cedarbrook Country Club

Cedarbrook Country Club sits in the foothills of northwestern North Carolina near Elkin, a region where the Piedmont begins its gradual rise toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. The course was designed by Ellis Maples with Ed Seay, a collaboration that brought together Maples' extensive experience shaping courses across the Carolinas with Seay's design sensibilities developed during his work with Arnold Palmer's design firm. The layout reflects the rolling terrain characteristic of this transitional landscape, where elevation changes and natural contours provide variety without the dramatic slopes found further west in the mountains. The routing takes advantage of the property's mature hardwoods and the topographical movement inherent to the region. Maples, who designed or redesigned dozens of courses throughout North and South Carolina during his career, typically worked with existing land forms rather than imposing heavily manufactured features, and Cedarbrook follows this philosophy. The course serves a membership drawn from Elkin and surrounding communities in Surry and Wilkes counties, an area with deep roots in textile manufacturing and furniture production. Cedarbrook functions as a traditional country club offering golf as its primary amenity alongside social and dining facilities. The course provides a regional test of golf appropriate to its setting, with hole variety shaped by the natural terrain rather than extensive earthmoving. For golfers traveling through North Carolina's northern Piedmont, it represents the kind of member-focused layout that Maples built throughout his long career in the state.