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Guide to the 2018 Masters A special publication of The Oconee Cellar Lake Oconee’s Oldest, Most Trusted Wine and Spirit Store • FINE WINE • CIGARS • SPIRITS • BEER 60155-1 6350 Lake Oconee Pkwy. Hours: (Open til 9pm Masters Week) Greensboro, GA Mon-Thur 10am-8pm NEXT TO PUBLIX Fri & Sat 10am-9pm 706.453.0420 Sunday 12:30 pm -6:00pm 2 Lake Oconee Breeze Thursday, April 5, 2018 Cuscowilla named Top Residential Golf Course in Georgia by Golfweek Photo from cuscowilla.com Lake Oconee Breeze than 850 course raters re- in 1997 to rave reviews and view more than 3,600 golf has become a fixture atop EATONTON — Cuscow- courses across the United the annual “best-of” lists, Spring is Calling illa on Lake Oconee has States each year, evaluating amassing an impressive list been named the No. 1 Resi- each facility nominated on of honors including distinc- dential Golf Course in the basis of Golfweek’s 10 tions among the Top 100 the state of strict standards of evalua- Modern Golf Courses in the tion. 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The money is great, are probably neck and place for people to not only fairly hectic for Garofalo and but at the same time it’s just a neck. Masters Week entertain but also to play golf his staff. Despite the extra fun week, and I’ve been lucky brings a lot of people to themselves. ... When you’re work that comes with the golf enough to be able to go to Lake Oconee.” entertaining clients, you’re year’s most important week, the Masters at least one time For the past 20 not buying the low-end stuff,the Oconee Cellar owner ex- during the week, which is fun, years, Garofalo has you’re buying higher-end pressed excitement for the too.” supplied beer, wine stuff to make sure those- upcoming cli tournament. The Oconee Cellar is lo- and spirits to Lake ents understand how much “It’s a great time to have a cated at 6350 Lake Oconee Oconee residents and you appreciate them.” business like mine,” said Ga- Pkwy, Ste 108 Greensboro. guests. In that time, With golf fans and cor- rofalo of Masters week. “It’s For more information visit haven for fans both planning he has seen the lake area porate bigwigs promising exhausting, but at the same www.theoconeecellar.com. to attend the tournament and grow from an out-of-the- By WILL WOOLEVER without the means to make way community far removed Lake Oconee Breeze it past Magnolia Lane. Amid from Augusta National to a the flurry of activity that kind of staging area for those As springtime brings an- comes with golf fans’ most sa- attending the Masters with- other chance to crown the cred week, one Lake Oconee out lodging in the city prop- world’s greatest golfers on the business owner is an essential er. As the early April clientele hallowed grounds of Augusta cog in golf fan’s Masters week of his business has shifted in National Golf Club, local busi- gatherings. recent years, so, too, have the ness owners and residents are “When I first opened, there types of beverages that the preparing for Lake Oconee’s was no Publix, no Ritz-Carl- Oconee Cellar sells. most unique time of year. ton, and nothing really on “People, and especially With a multitude of golf [Highway] 44 — it’s grown corporate people, will en- enthusiasts descending on exponentially since then,” tertain clients, and a lot of the lake area during Masters said Matt Garofalo, owner people will send one group Week in recent years, early of Greensboro’s Oconee Cel- to the Masters one day while WELCOMES THE MASTERS! 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For the past 25 years, Nick Bradley has helped golfers get the most out of their “It’s pretty evenly based, actually. I’d game at the highest levels of the sport. say it’s about a third members, a third Throughout his time as a professional swings. Ritz-Carlton guests, and a third exter- coach, Bradley has tutored players at the Originally from Lon- Tour,” said nally from Atlanta or other places,” said junior, amateur and professional levels, don, Bradley also served Bradley, the King- Bradley. “I’ve just had a group fly in from lending his expertise to such players as as strategic consultant dom’s newly named New York, and such is the expertise we two-time Masters runner-up, 2016 Olym- for European Ryder Cup director of instruc- have here that people will fly in from pic Gold Medalist, and current world No. Captain Paul McGinley tion and club fitting.[across the country].” 5 Justin Rose. After nearly three decades in 2014. “I’ve taken players to Although the Kingdom is busy with of helping golfers from beginners to pro- “My background is number one in the golfers all 12 months of the year, early fessionals perfect their game, Bradley has mainly tour teaching — world [on the am- April brings a certain weight to the sport brought his expertise to Reynolds’ Lake I’ve spent basically the ateur circuit] and in Georgia as visitors undertake the short Oconee Kingdom of Golf to fine-tune his past 25 years teaching on two number fives,drive from Reynolds to Augusta National. visitors’ the European Tour and I’ve written two With the influx of players set to descend the PGA best-selling golf in- on Lake Oconee for golf’s most hallowed struction books, and week of the year, Bradley offered some I’ve also done consultancy for the Ryder advice to help players fine-tune their Cu p…. Last year, one of my students won swing. the World Championship as an 11-year- “A person can fix their golf swing, but old, and I’ve coached winners on every relative to that will not make any change major tour in the world and seven ama- in their equipment to reflect the new teur national champions.” technique,” he said. “You can actually Having begun work at Reynolds in Jan- make someone’s technique a lot better, uary of this year, Bradley is still settling but all of a sudden the equipment won’t in to his new home in the lake area. As fit where they’ve made the improve- director of instruction and club fitting, ments. The opposite is also true, where Bradley is the Kingdom’s resident expert unless they change their equipment, hey on all things golf and the mental fortitude don’t have the potential to better their needed to play it. From Reynolds mem- swing because their equipment is actually bers and Ritz-Carlton guests to players holding them back. A lot of people will say that fly in specifically for him, Bradley ‘Whenis I play better, I’ll have a better plan’, determined to help Kingdom visitors per- but the reality is that when they have a Low back pain slowing you down? fect their swing regardless of skill level. better plan, they play better.” Back pain is one of the most common medical problems, affecting eight out of 10 people at some point during their lives.