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Drama at 2,000 Feet The breathtaking McLemore is perched high atop Georgia’s Lookout Mountain, and offers one of the most inspired closing holes in golf
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on’t you love it when a good story has a great ending? At the McLemore Club, atop Lookout Mountain in northwest Georgia, a round of golf on its Highlands Course builds to an unforgettable crescendo: a final green more than 2,000 feet above sea level. The par-4 plays up to 435 yards from the tips, with the left side of the hole defined by the cliff’s edge and a dramatic 100-foot drop. The fairway is 40 yards wide and offers plenty of scope to find safety, but a determined hook off the tee by a right-hander will send the ball onto a long-haul flight into the wooded valley below. The green location also tests a golfer’s mettle as it snuggly sits just feet from the precipice. McLemore is a golf club and residential community only 35 minutes from downtown Chattanooga, Tenn., yet its mountaintop remoteness makes it and its homesites feel a world away. “It is different here at McLemore,” explains William Duane Horton, club President. “People come here just to look at the land and to experience it. This golf course celebrates the natural areas and is carved into the land in a way that makes it look part of the character, and like it belongs here.” And so it does, and so do you.
