Public golf, protected.
Friends of Asheville Muni is the volunteer nonprofit that funds the projects keeping Asheville's historic 1927 public course open, affordable, and welcoming to everyone. Join the Friends for $50 a year, and help keep it that way.
FRIENDS OF ASHEVILLE MUNI - A VOLUNTEER NONPROFIT
Who We Are
The City of Asheville owns the Muni. Commonwealth Golf Partners runs it. Friends of Asheville Muni is the volunteer nonprofit that funds the projects that make it more than a place to play golf.
YOUR $50 TURNS INTO REAL THINGS ON THE COURSE
We are all volunteers, so membership and gifts do not go to overhead. They go to projects you can walk out and see. Here is some of what the Friends have built.
YOUTH GOLF
Junior clubs to lend to First Tee players and kids who need a set, funded by grants from the Walnut Cove Members Association and the HV3 Foundation
HABITAT
Four acres of out-of-play land seeded with wildflowers, and a native perennial slope funded by a gift from Commonwealth Golf Partners and a grant from the City
THE BACK NINE
New benches at various tees throughout the back nine holes, as well as a complete renovation of the bathrooms on the back nine
Meet the Founder
Everybody’s Course
The Muni opened in 1927 as a Donald Ross design, the first public municipal course in the Carolinas, and in 1954 it became one of the first municipal courses in the Southeast to integrate. It was built for the public and it still plays like it: affordable, walkable, and open to everyone, with more than 40,000 rounds a year and a bear that turns up on the back nine.
When Hurricane Helene sent the Swannanoa River through the front nine in 2024, the course turned the hardest page in its history. FOAM is here to help it come back strong, and to keep it public for the next hundred years.