THE COUNTRY CLUB OF OXFORD
🇺🇸 Oxford, MS, USA
Designed by Jim Fazio
The Country Club of Oxford sits in Oxford, Mississippi, a college town known for the University of Mississippi campus and its literary heritage. Jim Fazio designed the course, part of a family lineage of golf architects that includes his uncle George Fazio and cousin Tom Fazio. Jim Fazio's work spans several decades and includes courses across the southeastern United States, typically characterized by strategic bunkering and routing that works with natural land contours.
The course serves as the primary private club facility in Oxford, providing a home course for local members and university-affiliated golfers. Northern Mississippi's terrain offers gentle rolling topography with hardwood forests, and courses in the region generally feature tree-lined fairways and elevation changes that create visual interest and strategic variety. The layout likely incorporates these native landscape features, with holes routed through wooded corridors and across modest elevation shifts typical of the area.
As a country club in a smaller southern city, the facility functions as both a golf venue and a social center for the community. The club supports recreational play for members and their guests, and the course provides a setting for local amateur competitions and club championships. Oxford's cultural identity, shaped by the university and the town's connection to William Faulkner, gives the club a distinct regional character within Mississippi's golf landscape.
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Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Oxford at The Country Club of Oxford has a Course Vaults score of 7.4 out of 10 based on 3 explicit golfer ratings.
Oxford was designed by Jim Fazio.
Oxford at The Country Club of Oxford is listed as private on Course Vaults; guest access is typically restricted.
Par at Oxford is 72.
Oxford plays 7,028 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.
The slope rating at Oxford is 138.