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Golf & Travel
Callaway Resort & Gardens Golf Club
Pine Mountain, Georgia
Where to Play
Callaway Gardens offers two playable
yet sturdy courses in the Appalachian
foothills. Dick Wilson’s Mountain
View hosted the PGA Tour’s Buick
Challenge for 12 years. The Lake
View, by Wilson colleague J.B.
McGovern, is, some say, a bit less
demanding. Foursome packages
available, and membership offers
waive the $5000 initiation fee.
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Where to Stay
Off Course
Where to Eat
The famous gardens, with azaleas
to remind you of Augusta, a
Butterfly Center, swimming, biking,
hiking and zip-lining, as well as
annual Steeplechase, Balloon and
Festival of Lights events make this
2500-acre destination not only an
affordable golf resort, but a year-
round family affair. All reasons why
USA Today readers voted it Best
Georgia Attraction.
The Resort offers a variety of
Lots of choices: The Gardens
lodging, beginning with the
Restaurant in the historic original
upscale Lodge and Spa. Other
golf clubhouse, The Country
options: The Cottages, which
Kitchen in the Gardens Country
offer two bedrooms and a kitchen Store to start. At the Lodge and
each, The Villas, at three price
Spa, Cason’s Tap Room and the
levels, and finally the affordable less casual Piedmont room at the
Mountain Creek Inn, which
Lodge and Spa. There you might
includes a swimming pool and
try the Fried Green Tomatoes
fitness center.
and Pimento Cheese Fritters.
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