The Deer Creek course at The Landings in Savanah, Georgia

Like Oakridge at The Landings, the community's Deer Creek golf course is about more than just the short game. There are a number of outstanding holes, like No. 5, a drivable par 4 if you dare try to carry the water that runs all the way to the green, No. 8, a picturesque par 3 framed by the marsh in back, and No. 9, with a substantial water carry off the tee.

Like all the Landings' courses, Deer Creek plays through a residential area with tantalizing views of the marsh, especially at Nos. 8, 9, 17 and 18.

No. 18 in particular is a beauty, a par 5 with marsh all the way down the right side, eventually creeping into the right fairway short of the hole.

Deer Creek is a beautifully treed course now, playing through pine, moss-draped oak and weeping willow. It also gets more than its fair share of wildlife; wild boar are sometimes still spotted.

It has the Tom Fazio trademark sculpted mounds, grass bunkers and big sand bunkers, two-tiered fairways and elevated tees.

The course, like others on the island, is not open to outside play.