Golfers craning their necks as they drive boats past the emerging Wicker Point Golf Club on Lake Martin will find the former cabin community site on the river’s west bank now looks very much like a golf course. Several greens have been prepped and are almost ready for grass; some bunkers have been laid with gravel base; and in a few weeks, trucks laden with sod will make their deliveries.

“Everything is starting to materialize now,” said Matt Sheppard, director of golf at course owner Russell Lands. “Every hole seems to come to life on a different day. Every time I go out there now, I can see what has been done, how it is a little different.”