Reynolds Lake Oconee Offers Unique Sporting Experience with Former PGA Tour Professional Blake Adams By Brian Weis

Reynolds Lake Oconee Offers Unique Sporting Experience with Former PGA Tour Professional Blake Adams

By Brian Weis

When Reynolds Lake Oconee guests sign up for the "Blake Adams Kingdom Experience," their most difficult decisions will be whether they want to play golf, fish, shoot clays, or socialize with the former PGA Tour professional. Or they can select several since the versatile Adams is a perfect fit for any event.

Golf is Adams' strongest suit. When the director of player development at The Kingdom at Reynolds Lake Oconee tees it up with an individual or a group, he'll share tips and offer instruction as well as entertain with stories from his 20 years on Tour, which included numerous Top 25 finishes in PGA Tour tournaments and other events like The U.S. Open, The PGA Championship and The Players Championship.

Adams also can help guests enjoy the same comprehensive club fitting and building experience typically reserved for PGA Tour professionals, working with one of The Kingdom's TaylorMade Tour Club Fitters to match the proper equipment with the guest's swing and specifications. Since opening in 2007, The Kingdom at Reynolds Lake Oconee is the country's lone TaylorMade fitting venue where recreational golfers have access to the same expertise and technology used by Team TaylorMade's athletes and club pros.

Raised in Georgia and a graduate of Georgia Southern University, Adams played golf at The University of Georgia (three years) as well as Georgia Southern University. Adams is the consummate outdoorsman; he is as comfortable fishing in Lake Oconee and shooting clays at the community's Sporting Grounds as he is on any of Reynolds' six golf courses. An affable storyteller, he's also the ideal companion over cocktails and dinner.

An Adams "Kingdom Experience" can be constructed any number of ways. Here's one potential itinerary:

• Day 1: Club fitting, shooting clays, cocktail reception with Adams.

• Day 2: Morning fishing, afternoon golf, dinner with Adams.

"Whether he's holding a golf club, fishing rod, shotgun, or glass of wine, Blake is a terrific complement to every activity on property," said Tim Hong, Chief Operating Officer, Reynolds Lake Oconee. "He's also very good at creating lifelong memories.

The "Experience" also features luxury accommodations in a Reynolds Lake Oconee cottage or condominium.

A prime destination located between Atlanta and Augusta, Reynolds Lake Oconee is ranked among the top golf communities with courses designed by legendary architects: Great Waters by Jack Nicklaus, National by Tom Fazio, Oconee by Rees Jones, The Landing, and The Preserve by Bob Cupp. The members-only Creek Club was designed by Jim Engh.

For additional information, visit the "Blake Adams Kingdom Experience."

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.