Course History and Description:
"We are extremely proud of it from a natural sense, the views of the lake, the beautiful pine trees, and the varied situations enabled us to include as many different golf strokes as we could."
                                             - Ben Crenshaw

Course History:
The highly acclaimed, Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw designed golf course is the centerpiece for the 700 acre resort/residential community of Cuscowilla, established in 1996. Winding through rolling meadows, forests of pine, and along the shoreline of Lake Oconee, The Golf Club at Cuscowilla evokes comparisons to the great designs of Alister Mackenzie and Donald Ross.

The Lake Oconee area has long been considered a golfer's paradise, featuring four award-winning championship courses. Wide water and a gentle green landscape have inspired some of golf's legendary designers to create masterpieces around Lake Oconee. Jack Nicklaus, Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish, Hubert Green and Bob Cupp, and Fuzzy Zoeller have all had a hand in developing one of the world's most scenic concentrations of top level golf.

To this lofty company, Cuscowilla adds the considerable talents of the award winning team of two-time Masters Champion Ben Crenshaw and architect Bill Coore. Together they have fashioned a layout that has proved to be one of their finest efforts.

The course winds through rolling meadows and valleys of pines, playing across several interior ponds. The most celebrated holes, however, will almost certainly be those that start the second nine. They play besides -- and carry -- the lake, across an inlet that borders the site of the Club Cottages and Lake Club.

While designing to capture the attention of the pros, the course also manages to reward less skilled players. Yet most landing areas are generous. It's a layout the scratch golfer can enjoy while introducing the rest of the family to the pleasures of the game.

Course Description:
From each tee at The Golf Club at Cuscowilla there is a choice to be made; play safe or take a more aggressive angle to the hole, as with many of the classic older courses designed in the golden age of course architecture, there are consequences with either choice typical of the risk/ reward style of architecture. Holes 1- 5 offer the best opportunity to score while comfortably getting into the round. The observant player will immediately recognize the level of architectural sophistication that awaits, thru the ragged bunkers to demanding angles of attack to subtle undulations that adorn each greens complex.

At number 6 the player will recognize a change of pace, length is added to the equation. Cuscowilla begins at 6. This is the most difficult driving hole on the golf course, bunkered heavily down the left and backed by deep native grasses the hole requires precision off the tee. Number 7, a relatively short par 4 offers a slim reprieve, before the 232-yard par 3 8th. the hardest of all the par 3's. Number 9 is a monstrously long 480-yard par 4 that slightly bends left to right. The 10th at Cuscowilla is a wonderful example of a well designed cape hole (tee perpendicular to fairway).

Each player must decide how aggressive to be. 11 and 12 are great short holes a par 3 and 4 respectively these holes are real treat to play. 13 is the bunkerless hole, huge pines run the length of the hole on either side and dictate the right to left bend required off the tee. Number 14 is a magnificent par 5 that stretches 625 yards from the tips, a double dog-leg first downhill then back up shows off the beauty of the land around you. 15 - 18 a very difficult series of holes with each one requiring precise driving and solid iron play to successfully complete a good round.

Cuscowilla Golf Accolades:

2005 - America's 100 Greatest Public Courses, #45 Golf Digest
2005 - Best Residential Golf Course in America, #1 Golfweek
2005 - Best Modern Courses in America (post-1960), #15 Golfweek

2006 –Top 100 Courses in America you can play, GOLF Magazine
2006 - Best Golf Course in Georgia, by the National Golf Course Owners Association
2006 - Best Residential Golf Course in America, #2 Golfweek
2006 - Selected as a Premier Property by Links Magazine
2006 - Selected as one of the Great Golf Resorts of the World by PGA Magazine
2006 – #14 Top 100 Modern Courses in America (post 1960), Golfweek

Vacation Rentals and Corporate Retreats:
Accommodations available at the Golf Club of Cuscowilla include golf cottages, lake villas and lodge villas; offering country style elegance with granite stone and cedar shingles, tastefully designed interiors with hardwood floors, yellow pine paneling and exposed beams which blend into the natural surroundings. Cuscowilla has the award winning Waterside Restaurant and the Golf House Bar & Grill; swimming pools, tennis courts, walking trails, lake access, fitness facility and Kids Club pavilion.
 

Tee	Par	Yardage	Rating (US)	Slope (US)
Black	70	6847	72.3	130
Middle	70	6402	70.1	127
Forward	72	5348	69.6	123

Golf tee times are subject to availability and black-out dates
and some restrictions may apply.

*All descriptions, costs and amenities are subject to change.