Killearn Club: Camellia

When Killearn Country Club was laid out in the middle 1960s, it was a rural outpost in the rolling countryside northeast of downtown Tallahassee with 27 holes that doglegged simply through groves of oak and pine. Designed by Bill Amick, the course was the basis of a future residential masterplan development that gradually filled in over the next decade and a half. By 2020, the club was strong but the course had outlived its sell-by date and needed an injection of energy, which is what architect Chris Wilczynski gave it. Rebranded Killearn Club, Wilczynski combined two of the nines into the Camellia Course and expanded and recontoured greens (some of them relocated), reconceptualized the bunkers, added several new water features, adjusted playing corridors and upgraded everything with state of the art turf and irrigation. It’s a new course on an old property, one with a clear sense of style that makes it stand out as one of the most vivid designs in the Tallahassee market.