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Covered Bridge near the main entrance. While happily blessed to share Georgia’s spectacular “They just start to exhale and relax,” Brandon Lake Oconee with other golf developments in Matney says. “Their blood pressure drops and this picturesque spot an hour outside of Atlanta, everything seems to slow down for them.” Harbor Club has emerged as clearly unique among The Top 10-ranked golf course itself is equally its competitors. friendly, but plenty challenging, with six holes that touch Lake Oconee. No doubt about it, Harbor Club’s Southern Hospitality is as rich “There are five qualities on all great golf courses -- rolling terrain, as red-eye gravy. elevation changes, streams, mature trees and proximity to a lake,” Living at Harbor Club is far more than everyday access to its architect Weiskopf has said. “Find a course that has two or three of outstanding Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish golf course. Remarkably, the these qualities and you’ll have a good course. Search for one that has entire experience is distinctly down-home for a 1,000-acre golf resort all five and you’ll discover Harbor Club.” 70 miles east of the nation’s 9th-largest city. As an added asset for boaters and Positioned in the heart of the Classic homeowners, Lake Oconee is overseen South, Harbor Club gives residents and by Georgia Power, which maintains water visitors the same small-town, comfortable levels to a mere 18-inch variance yearfeel of neighbors such as Historic round. Madison, Milledgeville or Athens, just A safe haven from the traffic and trials 40 minutes away. An hour’s drive down of city living, Harbor Club has increased I-20 is Augusta, golf’s April epicenter. real estate sales the past three years, From sweet tea at its new Boathouse closing on 78 properties in 2014 through restaurant to paddle-boarding, kayaking October. Harbor Club enhances its or bass fishing on Lake Oconee, named Come visit Harbor Club’s new Pine Lake Model Home, with community feel by offering memberships one of the “Top 10 Gorgeous Lakes in the over 3,000 square feet, water view, open floor plan and “Lake Oconee Casual” style. only to property owners, but allows some U.S.,” Harbor Club offers the complete resort play and Southern Hospitality Packages to interested real estate waterfront lifestyle. buyers. Golf or interior water view homesites range from $39,900 to General Manager Brandon Matney, whose father John Matney more than $100,000. Premium lakefront lots start in the $300,000’s. purchased the property in 1992, often greets people by their first name, “The people who live here could live anywhere in the world,” says with a folksy charm. In turn, Harbor Club’s 960 residents (80 percent John Matney, “but they choose to come home to Harbor Club.” full-time) embrace the tranquility they feel with each trip through the
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