Hot Springs has been a spa-and-sport destination for generations, and golf fits that heritage as naturally as the bathhouses on Bathhouse Row. Hot Springs Country Club’s Arlington and Hot Springs courses offer historic resort golf in the Ouachita foothills—rolling fairways, mature timber, and a pace that matches the town’s slower, restorative identity. Belvedere Country Club’s long local legacy adds another layer of classic Arkansas mountain-golf tradition.
Unlike Northwest Arkansas’s newer boomtown energy, Hot Springs golf feels rooted in mid-century resort culture: visitors pairing rounds with lake time, racing at Oaklawn, and downtown walks between thermal springs. The hills provide real topography, and the season stretches comfortably through spring and fall when the foliage and milder temperatures make the Ouachitas especially inviting.