18 holes now open at Durham Lakes Golf and Country Club

Eighteen holes await golfers at Durham Lakes Golf and Country Club now that the front nine have opened.  The Scott Poole-designed course is the focal point of Killearn Development’s newest mixed-use community of 875 homes ranging in price from $180,000 to $500,000 as well as retail and office space.

The back nine opened for play last November, according to General Manager Richard Lundy.   

“We are excited to open the entire course for play as well as the other amenities,” Lundy says as he looks over the newly-sodded 10-acre driving range that also recently opened. Nearby are the practice green, the pool complex – which features a lap pool, children’s pool and wade-in pool – five lighted tennis courts, basketball courts, playground, community pavilion and event lawn.

Residents of Durham Lakes can choose a golf, social or a combination membership that allows access of any or all of the amenities which are all centrally located.  

The golf course is a par-72 course with number 18 designated as its “signature” hole. The hole is a 386-yard par 4 strategically guarded by 11 bunkers and one of the course’s three lakes. The hole will offer easy access to the much larger clubhouse/pro shop that is planned for the near future. Plans also call for a golf professional to be hired this summer.

And while all 18 holes are now open for play, the course’s official grand opening is slated for July 4, according to Lundy. The festivities will include a million dollar shoot-out, prizes, a luncheon and other festivities. Play that day will be open to a limited number of non-member players.   

Golfers – including those who are members of Durham Lakes as well as Kingwood and Eagle’s Brooke – can play seven days a week with tee times available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Times can be scheduled by calling the pro shop at 770-306-7200.   

Lundy, 30, joined Killearn Development nine years ago while still a student at Georgia State University. He has worked at several Killearn properties, including Kingwood in north Georgia and the company’s flagship Georgia development and headquarters, Eagle’s Landing in Henry County.  

Killearn was founded in 1964 in Tallahassee, Fla., with the idea of creating communities catering to the lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle class in Florida’s capital city. Among the Florida projects were two 4,000-acre master planned communities, Killearn Estates and Killearn Lakes Plantation, which includes Golden Eagle Country Club.  

Since entering the Georgia market and relocating its headquarters in the 1980s to the Eagle’s Landing area of Stockbridge, the company has developed four Georgia golf club communities, including Eagle’s Landing in Stockbridge, Eagle’s Brooke in Locust Grove and Waterfall Country Club at Lake Burton and Kingwood Golf Club and Resort near Clayton in the North Georgia mountains.