Pine Mountain, Georgia - Azalea Central

Travel + Leisure Golf – March - April 2008 - Georgia in early April: Golfers know it well as a place and a time for renewing the spirit. Azalea bushes bud and bloom, evening light remembers how to linger, and roars rise through the pines at the Masters. True, golf has only one Amen Corner, but Augusta National holds no patent on flowers. If it’s Technicolor shrubbery you’re after (and if you want to play golf rather than just watch it), head in a different direction out of the Atlanta airport.

About seventy miles to the southwest you’ll find Callaway Gardens, a thirteen-thousand-acre golf resort and nature preserve at the base of Pine Mountain in the Appalachian Piedmont. It has thirty-six holes of golf, a brand-new spa and lodge, miles of forested walking trails—and more azaleas than Alister MacKenzie ever dreamed of.

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