Golf Course Architecture: Second course at McLemore approaches grassing phase
McLemore Resort in Rising Fawn, Georgia, will soon begin grassing its new golf course, a collaboration between Bergin Golf Design and Rees Jones Inc.
At a recent preview event attended by GCA, the resort unveiled the new course’s name, The Keep, and gave members a tour of the site and the opportunity to play shots over the shaped landscape.
The Keep lies on a plateau 1,000 feet above the valley floor of McLemore Cove, and the design team has routed several holes along the cliff edge.
Most of the trees on the rocky site have been cleared to create an open landscape where every hole can be seen from some locations. This is a marked contrast to the Highlands course at McLemore where holes weave through woodland.
