Neighborhood Profile: West Lake Country Club
Lydia Taylor May 4th, 2007
West Lake Country Club is the oldest and most prominent golf community in Evans Georgia. West Lake has a front entrance on Stevens Creek Road, and a back entrance on Fury’s Ferry Road. (Google Map). A gated community, West Lake has over 1000 homes that have been built there since the first home broke ground back in 1969.
The golf course came first- West Lake has a 6,876 yard 18-hole private golf course designed by Ellis Maples in 1967. The course was completed and opened for play in 1969. Back in those early days, access to the clubhouse was by dirt road. The course has come a long way since then and is now perennially voted #1 for Best Private Golf Course by Augusta Magazine.
The clubhouse is now undergoing a major renovation that should be complete by fall of 2007. Members of the club also enjoy access to the 12 tennis courts, an Olympic size swimming pool, fitness center, and fine dining.
West Lake has grown large enough now that there are several areas to the neighborhood. Sections include the West Lake Town Houses, which are patio-style 2 and 3 bedroom homes ranging from the $100s to $200s; the Cottages at West Lake, offering homes from the $300s through the high $600s; and West Lake proper, offering homes from the middle $150s to over $1.5 million (the average is about $450,000).
West Lake neighborhood is very popular during the Master’s Golf Tournament in April. The course is open for the week to public play, and many of the houses are rented for visitors to the tournament. Residents of West Lake find that it is not unusual to find a PGA pro spending the week next door while in town for the tournament! Corporate renters are especially common in the neighborhood and parties galore go on for a week every spring.
Located in the center of booming Columbia County, West Lake forms the heart of a sophisticated, upscale, and metropolitan crowd. If you enjoy living life with a dash of Old South, theres no better place to do it than West Lake in Augusta Georgia - Home of the Masters.
If you wish to see all the properties available in this neighborhood, please click the link below. It is continually updated with the latest real estate available in the neighborhood: Homes for Sale in West Lake Country Club.
This is one of a continuing series of profiles I will be doing over the next few weeks for popular neighborhoods. If you wish to see a profile of your neighborhood, or one you are interested in, please leave a comment and I’ll work on it!
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