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The campus — hard courts, covered courts, and the red clay block
The outdoor hard court block, clay courts beyond
Project · Private Racquet Campus · College Grove, TN
Barton Sports Construction built the courts at The Farm & Forge Club — a 118-acre private athletic campus south of Nashville. Twelve indoor hard courts, eighteen outdoor hard courts, and six outdoor red clay courts, delivered in phases across a live construction site.
The Farm & Forge Club sits on 118 acres in College Grove, Tennessee, roughly half an hour south of Nashville. It was built as a year-round home for competitive junior tennis — a full campus rather than a court or two bolted onto an existing property.
Barton built the courts: three distinct surface systems, thirty-six courts, opened in stages while the rest of the campus was still going up around them. Indoor hard courts under roof. An eighteen-court outdoor hard block. And six outdoor red clay courts — the surface most builders in this region will not touch, because clay is a drainage problem before it is a surfacing problem.
Sequencing was the whole job. Each phase had to be playable and warrantable on its own date without disrupting the phases still under construction next to it.
Most racquet projects are one surface repeated. Farm & Forge is three, each with its own sub-base, drainage strategy, and maintenance profile — built to coexist on a single campus.
Twelve courts under roof, so the club's competitive program runs through winter and through weather. Indoor slabs are unforgiving — there is no sun to help a surface cure and no rain to reveal a low spot before the coating goes down. Flatness has to be right the first time.
An eighteen-court block — the volume that makes a campus tournament-capable rather than merely large. Built to the same post-tension and acrylic standards we hold on a single residential court, repeated eighteen times without drift, and lit for evening play.
Six red clay courts. Clay is the surface that separates court builders: it lives or dies on the engineered sub-base and the water that moves through it. Get the drainage wrong and no amount of top-dressing saves it. This is work we have done for decades.
The club opened progressively rather than all at once. Each date below is a set of courts going into member play while the next set was still being built.
Anyone can pour one court. A thirty-six-court campus tests the things that do not show up in a bid: whether the tenth court matches the first, whether a phase can open on its published date while the crew next to it is still working, and whether three different surface systems can be maintained by one club staff.
If you are planning a club, an academy, a municipal complex, or a university facility, the questions are the same at any scale — drainage, sub-base, sequencing, and who stands behind the surface in year five.
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