Horace Smith came south as a teenage drummer boy during the Civil War. He was was an executive with the NC&StL Railroad and served as present of the Southern Golf Association from 1904 until his death in 1930 at age 81. He was responsible for the organization of the Tennessee Golf Association in 1914. A charter member of Nashville Golf and Country Club, now Belle Meade, he supervised the building of its present clubhouse and its original golf course.
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Horace F. Smith
2015 Inductee