Benvenue Country Club operates as a private non-profit corporation and is a full service Country Club featuring an 18-hole Donald Ross Golf Course, Tennis Center, Junior Olympic Swimming Pool and cabana. The Club offers ala-carte fine dining, banquets, and meeting facilities for breakfast, lunch and dinner. In addition, the Club sponsors numerous Member social functions throughout the year.

Benvenue is located minutes from Downtown Rocky Mount, North Carolina on a pristine tract of land featuring lakes, streams, rolling hills and trees and greenery native to eastern North Carolina. The club was founded in 1922 and built on a part of the Bunn Farm, approximately 2 miles from Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

The name of the Club “Benvenue” is not, as often surmised, a misspelling of the French word meaning, “Welcome”. It was the name adopted by Mr. B.H. Bunn for his home plantation, of which the Club grounds were formerly a part. Benvenue is a mountain in Scotland in the Trossack Range, and is located near the shore on Lake Katrin. Mr. Bunn was attracted to the word while reading Sir Walter Scott’s Poem “The Lady of the Lake”. He often found solace and grandeur of his native land. Among other places, the word occurs in the fifth stanza of the first canto: “But nearer was the copse wood gray that waved and wept on Loch-Achray and mingles with the pine trees blue on the bold cliffs of “Benvenue”.”

The legendary Donald Ross designed the golf course in 1922. The original two-story clubhouse building was also constructed in 1922. A major $5.0 million renovation and expansion of the clubhouse and patio was completed in May of 2002. Benvenue Country Club is proud to have the finest country club facilities East of Raleigh. Also included on site are a tennis center, swimming pool, and cabana. Benvenue is a full service country club that has members of all ages.