Golfers eager to try new course

Under a blue sky and in summer heat, Keowee Key residents are eager today to try out their re-built golf course. The ribbon-cutting and grand re-opening mean that 18-hole golf has been returned as one of the amenities for those who live in the Oconee County lake community. The re-built golf course, a multi-million dollar project, is one of the amenity upgrades in recent years in the gated home development, which was the first major home development after Lake Keowee was created as part of the Keowee-Toxaway power project. Golfer Barbara Bachman, was in the course re-design. She made this prediction: “I think it’s going to be familiar, but I think it’s going to be different. Some of the tees are in different places. The greens have a different grass than we’ve had in the past. That’s going to make putting a little bit different.” First day of play for this re-built course has attracted project officials including the architect, Richard Mandell, and George Cobb Jr., son of the man who designed the original course.