The Fall Line is the geological term for the transition zone in Georgia between Columbus and Augusta that separates the hard clay soils of the upper Piedmont and the lower southern elevations that millions of years ago were ocean. It is one of the country’s most significant sandbelts and has only recently been discovered for golf, highlighted by The Fall Line, a 36-hole private destination with an international membership of just 100.
The founders, a group of Los Angeles-based friends and business partners, initially approached Gil Hanse to design the course, though he declined due to its proximity to his Ohoopee Match Club that opened in 2019, 140 miles to the east. But the nature of the unique soils prompted Hanse to recommend the Australian firm of OCM, who have experience working in Melbourne’s sandbelt and had begun pursuing projects in the U.S.
Brian Oar
The vast, 5,000-acre Fall Line property provided near limitless opportunities for OCM, inspiring the concept of two complementary courses, one designed with British heathland accents and one with Melbourne sandbelt influences. Opened first, the heathland-inspired East Course ventures through sparse forests of scrub pine with broad, inviting fairways that cascade across long inclines of land. A detour from holes 11 through 15 into a highland meadow provides outward views of the surrounding central Georgia ridges and valleys before the routing ducks back into the pines…