Mountaintop marvel: The Keep lifts McLemore to new heights
RISING FAWN, GEORGIA | Rees Jones is quick to concede he and co-designer Bill Bergin didn’t have to dig deeply into their toolbox of artistic imagination when laying out their newest creation at McLemore called The Keep.
The magnificence of the course in northwest Georgia, about 40 minutes south of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was already there, embedded in the topography along the eastern edge of Lookout Mountain waiting to be discovered. Like stumbling across a Rembrandt in the attic, they simply had to clean it up and unveil it.
