Timberlake is west of Columbia on the north side of Lake Murray on a peninsula jutting out into the Lake.

The layout is a parkland design carved through the pine tree forests of a residential community with a varied collection of holes featuring numerous ponds and The Lake in play and sand traps defending the landing zones and greens. It is a Willard Byrd design of 6,579 yards, 72.4/135, course/slope ratings from the tips with four shorter tees.