The National golf course at Reynolds Plantation - Greensboro, Georgia

The National golf course at Reynolds Plantation is the resort's only 27-hole facility; the Ridge and Bluffs nines opened in 1997, and the Cove nine was added in 2000.

The golf course, a Tom Fazio design, has most of the same physical attributes of the other Reynolds Plantation courses, winding up, down and around hilly, rolling terrain. It's surrounded by hardwood forests and views of the Oconee River Valley, and has up to 60 feet of elevation change.

It also has a lot of water; streams, ponds and the lake are all in play at various times.

The National's fairways are lined with Georgia pines and thousands of local azaleas, and the large, undulating greens are bentgrass, probably the best putting surface known to man and golfer.

The National is well-treed with softly undulating fairways and greens, and the pine straw rough never becomes overly penal. Many of the fairways, though, drop off to woods.

Golfweek ranked the National as one of America's top real estate golf courses, and the houses that appear sporadically are well-hidden by the hills and trees.