Reynolds Lake Oconee (Creek Club)

Opened for play in 2007, the Creek Club course is the only private layout at the Reynolds Lake Oconee community, reserved for members and their guests, with Richland Creek coming into play at fourteen of the Jim Engh-designed holes.

In The American Private Golf Club Guide author Daniel Wexler writes: “Coming on the heels of high-profile designs by Nicklaus, Fazio, Rees Jones and Bob Cupp, Jim Engh was likely selected to create something attention-grabbing, and in this regard he certainly delivered.

Though with several bizarrely shaped putting surfaces, some equally flashy bunkering and the option of three (!) different greens on the par five 18th, ‘gimmicky’ is another suitable adjective.

Like most of Engh’s work, beyond the flash and trickery lies a real degree of tactical interest, as seen in the 578-yard 1st (where a creek affects one’s first and second shots), the 233-yard 11th (which features one of the largest boomerang greens of all time), and the 569-yard 12th, a wild three-shotter which employs alternative fairways and snake-like bunkers – and an S-shaped green.”