19 Photo: Caspar Grauballe Photo: Reynolds Lake Oconee Steve Smyers designs new course for Reynolds Lake Oconee Steve Smyers has designed a new course for the Reynolds Lake Oconee community, southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Fenmoor will become the community’s eighth course when it opens in autumn 2026, joining the Preserve, Great Waters, National, Oconee, Landing, Creek Club and Richland layouts. The Fenmoor site features marshy land, native grasses and rolling hillsides. “The land is absolutely ideal for golf,” said Smyers. “We’re very fortunate to have a piece of property this diverse, with the movement of the land – gentle rolls, swales, valleys, hummocks, mounds and ravines – combined with the presence of water running through it.” Water will be a defining feature of the course, with rivulets and streams branching from Richland Creek, and with Lake Oconee visible from much of the course. The lake will also influence play on numerous holes, including nine greens that will be built near the water’s edge. The Country Club of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania has hired Nagle Design Works to develop a long-term masterplan to return the course closer in style to that designed by original architect, William Flynn. “Flynn built the course in 1917 – it was one of his first designs,” said Jim Nagle. “A few years later, another architect came in, and eliminated a large proportion of Flynn’s course, and over time, other holes have been wholly redesigned. “It has a wonderful set of varied par threes, and the par-five eleventh has enormous potential. It was a Flynn hole, but the green was moved and rebuilt at some time and is not good. We can build a more Flynn-link green.” The project is in planning. “We will use this year to develop our ideas,” said Nagle. “The club is planning a new irrigation system, and that will drive the scheduling.” CC Harrisburg hires Jim Nagle for Flynn-inspired renovation Photo: Country Club of Harrisburg
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