Video: Oakhurst Links Update From Golf Channel

Golf Channel's George Savaricas and Jason Sobel visited Oakhurst Links and teed it up…well sand-mounded it up with Greenbrier head pro Jamie Hamilton.

Greenbrier owner Jim Justice saved the course from possible closure last year. Sobel filed this column on the course that dates to 1884, its restoration and it's recent salvation.

There are plans to once again host the National Hickory Championship, and Oakhurst Links is again open for business, with golfers brandishing mashies and niblicks – and many dressing the part of turn-of-the-century competitors.

All is right in this world now, not long after the course could have faded away for good.
“To have a piece of golf history just down the road from a place like The Greenbrier, if this place would have went away it would have been a real sad thing,” Hamilton says. “It was a lot of hard work that went into bringing it back. It’s a fun project to run. It’s the same, but it’s so different from the game of golf that we all know and play now. People learn a lot about it and I know we learn a lot being involved in it.”