Savannah Lakes Village & Golf Clubs

Minutes From Augusta

By Brian Weis

Located minutes from the golf mecca of Augusta, this affordable member-owned lakefront sporting community boasts two lakefront golf courses and amazing scenic beauty.

Number can only begin to tell the story. A 4,000-acre lakefront sporting community nestled in 63,368 acres of national forests and state parks along the 70,000 acre Lake Thurmond. Two award winning golf courses and 2,000 primary and vacation home residents. Only 35 minutes from Augusta, GA. The rest must be felt in the breeze as it passes over the water, heard in the strike of a club or a tennis racket against a ball, experienced from the seat of a bike or a kayak, or shared with a sunset cruise on the lake with friends.

All this - combined with the security of living in an established, member-owned community - adds up to one enviable, yet affordable lifestyle for the residents of Savannah Lakes Village. The community's scenic Monticello and Tara golf courses wind around the rolling forested shoreline. Property ownership in the community includes membership into all member owned amenities. There are no initiation fees to join the golf clubs, and members can choose from reasonably priced unlimited annual play packages or daily fees as low as $23 including cart.

And here are a few more numbers: Six lake and golf front neighborhoods offering lake, golf, and interior lake-access homesites. New homes ranging from $149,999 to $850,000 and homesites from 20,000 to $250,000. Zero initiation fees or monthly minimums at the club, and monthly dues less than $100 per month. One special place to call home.

For more information, visit www.SavannahLakes.com or call 800-332-0013.

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.