Friends of Asheville Muni

11/03/2026

Six local businesses sponsor a hole on the back nine at Muni.

Thank you to French Broad River Brewery, Ingles, Explore Asheville, Sky Lanes, Edward Jones, and Doug Edwards Law. Their support helps Friends of Asheville Muni keep public golf affordable in this city.

Holes 15, 16, and 18 are open. If you run a business that would like its name on this course, we would like to talk.

Sponsor a hole: friendsofashevillemuni.com/join

10/29/2026

Billy Gardenhight, former President of the Skyview Golf Association, spent a lot of time at Muni and knows what it means for the community. The Skyview Open was first played here in 1959 and has been played here ever since.

This history belongs to Skyview. Friends of Asheville Muni is proud to support them, and we would rather you heard it in their words than in ours.

Read it from the Skyview Golf Association: skyviewgolfasheville.com

10/27/2026

Some of our work isn't glamorous and that's the point.

Friends of Asheville Muni paid for a complete renovation of the back-nine restroom at Muni. It is the least exciting item on our list and one of the most used things on the course. Public golf gets made comfortable by unglamorous work that nobody puts on a poster.

Join the Friends for $50 a year and fund the next unglamorous thing: https://www.friendsofashevillemuni.com/course-improvements

10/24/2026

Asheville Muni is close to becoming an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary!

The certification is run by Audubon International and earned area by area: environmental planning, wildlife and habitat management, water conservation, chemical use and safety, and outreach and education. Muni has now cleared every one of them, and Audubon International visited the course in early October for the final inspection.

Some of that work is in the ground. A pollinator garden above the 11th green. Native corridors in front of the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th tees. Four acres of wildflowers. Some of it is people: when Friends of Asheville Muni ran a BioBlitz here, 82 neighbors turned out to count everything alive on the course, and that placed Muni second in the world in Audubon International's community engagement category.

Join the Friends: friendsofashevillemuni.com/habitat

10/22/2026

The Walnut Cove Members Association funded junior golf equipment at Muni. The HV3 Foundation backed affordable access and mentorship. Commonwealth Golf Partners put $5,000 into habitat work and the City of Asheville matched it in full through a Neighborhood Matching Grant.

Friends of Asheville Muni is entirely volunteer run, which means those dollars go into the course instead of into salaries. That is why the trust keeps getting extended, and it is what a $50 membership joins.

Meet the partners:

The all-volunteer board behind Friends of Asheville Muni, and the City, Commonwealth Golf, and community partners we work with to support the Muni.

10/20/2026

Still the question we get most: are you the golf course?

No. Friends of Asheville Muni is the all-volunteer nonprofit that funds projects at Asheville Muni. The City owns the course. Commonwealth Golf Partners runs it. We raise the money for the projects that make it more than a place to play golf.

Four acres of wildflowers. Loaner clubs for kids. A renovated back-nine restroom. All of it paid for by members. Join us for $50 a year.

Meet FOAM:

Meet the all-volunteer 501(c)(3) behind Asheville's historic public course. Not the course, not the City. Our mission, our values, and what we fund.

10/17/2026

Every course has a local rule. Ours has a bear.

Play the back nine at Asheville Muni enough and you will meet him, or at least see where he has been. He is unbothered. He is not in a hurry. He is on the Friends of Asheville Muni logo now, which feels about right for a course that has never been precious about anything.

Come play. He probably won't be there. Probably.

10/15/2026

The clubs in this bag do not belong to anyone. They belong to whoever needs them. Friends of Asheville Muni buys junior golf equipment and keeps it at Muni for First Tee participants and any young player who turns up without a set. Golf should not be out of reach for any kid in Asheville.

Join the Friends for $50 a year and keep clubs in kids' hands: friendsofashevillemuni.com/youth-community-golf

10/13/2026

The first Skyview tournament was played at Asheville Muni in 1959. The Skyview Golf Association formed around it in 1960, to promote golf competition among African American golfers across the country at a time when much of the game was closed to them. By 1975 the field had grown to 274, and the Skyview Open stands among the largest African-American-operated golf tournaments in the United States. It has been played at Muni nearly every year since.

This is Skyview's incredible story and Friends of Asheville Muni is proud that Muni is its home.

Read more about it from the Skyview Golf Association: skyviewgolfasheville.com

10/11/2026

Four acres of Muni are not golf course anymore. In 2023, Friends of Asheville Muni seeded roughly four acres of out-of-play ground with wildflowers. Rough became pollinator habitat, and anyone walking the course can see it. The work continues, one out-of-play acre at a time.

A public course can be good for the game and good for the land it sits on. Join the Friends for $50 a year and keep it going: friendsofashevillemuni.com/habitat