The headline of the Charlotte Observer announced that a new country club was to be built on Carmel Road

Founders Manly McWilliams, Herbert Hitch, Gayle Rogers, James A. Malcolm, Bill Allen, George Munford, Banks McClintock, Elmer Rouzer, and Bill Warnell officially opened the Club with 200 total members. Each member paid $250 each to purchase the golf course which had been abandoned after World War II.