
Georgia
Named after King George II of Britain, Georgia is the largest state to the east of the Mississippi in terms of land area. Known as the Peach State due to the high quality fruit grown in the region, the state officially adopted the juicy peach in 1995. Georgia is also an industrial and economic powerhouse earning the moniker: Empire State of the South.
Augusta National Golf Club
Georgia, United States
Augusta National Golf Club
Augusta National Golf Club is one of the most exclusive clubs in the world and was designed by the world’s greatest golfer, who teamed up with the world’s greatest architect.
Ohoopee Match Club
Georgia, United States
Ohoopee Match Club
The course at Ohoopee Match Club in rural Tattnall County occupies just a small portion of a 3,500-acre estate that was once used for onion production. Ohoopee Match Club includes 18 fantastic holes weaved together to create an amazing routing. The course is a masterpiece of "ebb and flow".
Atlanta Athletic Club (Highlands)
Georgia, United States
Atlanta Athletic Club (Highlands)
The Highlands course is invariably considered to be the premier layout at Atlanta Athletic Club and the 1976 US Open was played on this course.
Sea Island (Seaside)
Georgia, United States
Sea Island (Seaside)
The Seaside course was created in the late 1920s by C.H. Alison of the great English partnership of Colt and Alison. Today's 18 holes comprise a front nine that was laid out by Joe Lee in the 1970s...
Ocean Forest Golf Club
Georgia, United States
Ocean Forest Golf Club
Ocean Forest Golf Club was co-designed by Rees Jones and Greg Muirhead in 1995 and it’s built on a wonderful parcel of Georgia land and it closely resembles a true seaside links.
Lookout Mountain Club
Georgia, United States
Lookout Mountain Club
CB Macdonald’s associate Seth Raynor and assistant Charles Banks laid out the course in 1926, but it would take another seventy years before a Brian Silva restoration completed the project satisfactorily.
Frederica Golf Club
Georgia, United States
Frederica Golf Club
Created for Sea Island heir Bill Jones by Tom Fazio, who received a helping hand from former R&A Secretary, Sir Michael Bonallack, Frederica is a big golf course with a capital B.
Atlanta Country Club
Georgia, United States
Atlanta Country Club
Mention Atlanta Country Club and the BellSouth Classic springs to mind or is it called the AT&T Classic these days?
Augusta Country Club
Georgia, United States
Augusta Country Club
The club will always be overshadowed by its famous neighbour, but Silva’s work is undoubtedly artful and we’re sure Augusta Country Club will only rise higher in future rankings.
golf club at Cuscowilla
Georgia, United States
golf club at Cuscowilla
Set on the shore of Lake Oconee, the course at the Golf Club at Cuscowilla is a dramatic but harmonious Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw design.
The Farm Golf Club
Georgia, United States
The Farm Golf Club
Tom Fazio’s 18-hole layout at The Farm Golf Club dates back to 1988 and it plays a lot tougher than the type of course found at many of the architect’s more modern residential-based golf projects.
Hawks Ridge Golf Club
Georgia, United States
Hawks Ridge Golf Club
Hawks Ridge Golf Club is highly polished and Bob Cupp has tried to create the olde worlde sophistication of classical architecture with a twist of modernity.
Atlanta Athletic Club (Riverside)
Georgia, United States
Atlanta Athletic Club (Riverside)
Host to the 1990 US Women’s Open, the Riverside forms one of two great golf courses at the 36-hole Atlanta Athletic Club. Originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Snr, the layout was renovated by his son Rees in 2003.
Reynolds Lake Oconee (Great Waters)
Georgia, United States
Reynolds Lake Oconee (Great Waters)
Exactly half the holes on the Jack Nicklaus-designed Great Waters course at Reynolds on Lake Oconee are dramatically routed along the Lake Oconee shoreline.
Ansley Golf Club (Settindown)
Georgia, United States
Ansley Golf Club (Settindown)
Formed by Bob Cupp in 1988, the front nine holes on the Settindown Creek course at Ansley Golf Club lie alongside Little River with the back nine routed over more elevated terrain.
The Ford Field & River Club
Georgia, United States
The Ford Field & River Club
There are two areas of challenge at The Ford Field & River Club where the front nine winds around lakes and the back nine is routed around old plantation rice fields.
Capital City Club (Crabapple)
Georgia, United States
Capital City Club (Crabapple)
Located 22 miles to the north of Capital City Club’s old Brookhaven golf course on the outskirts of Atlanta, the 18 holes of the Crabapple layout comprise a demanding new millennium Tom Fazio design.
Sea Island (Plantation)
Georgia, United States
Sea Island (Plantation)
Walter Travis laid out the original nine holes of the Plantation course in 1926 and Dick Wilson added a second nine in the 1960s. Rees Jones then stepped in to perform a complete renovation before much-needed Love returned to the Plantation in 2018.
Champions Retreat (Bluff & Island)
Georgia, United States
Champions Retreat (Bluff & Island)
Champions Retreat Golf Club opened in 2005 with three 9-hole circuits, each laid out by a different golfing great. The Nicklaus/Palmer-designed Bluff and Island nines edge out Gary Player’s Creek to form the premier course.
Cobblestone
Georgia, United States
Cobblestone
Designed by Ken Dye, Cobblestone Golf Course lies on the shores of Lake Acworth and the layout (once used as a qualifier for the PGA Tour’s now defunct Bellsouth Classic) underwent an extensive upgrade in 2010.
Old Toccoa Farm
Georgia, United States
Old Toccoa Farm
Old Toccoa Farm features nearly 300 feet of elevation change from its highest to its lowest point, running alongside the scenic Toccoa River, and gravity will have a significant role to play on nearly every hole.
Georgia (Lakeside)
Georgia, United States
Georgia (Lakeside)
One of a pair of 18-hole Arthur Hill-designed layouts at the Golf Club of Georgia, the Lakeside course opened in 1991 with several holes on the back nine laid out alongside the sparkling waters of Lake Windward.
Landings Club (Deer Creek)
Georgia, United States
Landings Club (Deer Creek)
In 1991, Tom Fazio’s Deer Creek design at The Landings Club became the latest 18-hole layout to emerge at this private golf complex on Skidaway Island, allowing members the luxury of playing six different 18-hole courses at the one location.
Reynolds Lake Oconee (Oconee)
Georgia, United States
Reynolds Lake Oconee (Oconee)
Designed by Rees Jones in 2001, the Oconee course at Reynolds Lake Oconee was significantly renovated in 2013 by the same architect when he cut back trees and re-laid all eighteen greens.
Cherokee Town (North)
Georgia, United States
Cherokee Town (North)
Cherokee Town and Country Club was established in 1956; its two separate facilities, the town club and the country club, are set twelve miles apart. The club’s two golf courses, however, are located a few miles north of Sandy Springs, close to Dunwoody.
Harbor Club
Georgia, United States
Harbor Club
Six of the tree-lined fairways touch the shoreline of scenic Lake Oconee on Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish's 1991 design at the Harbor Club. The all-water carry par three 17th is rated one of the best short holes in the state.
Sea Island (Retreat)
Georgia, United States
Sea Island (Retreat)
The Retreat course at Sea Island is a new millennium Davis Love III re-design of an older 18-hole layout and it’s one of three terrific 18-hole layouts that are available for public play at this iconic resort.
Druid Hills
Georgia, United States
Druid Hills
The 18-hole layout at Druid Hills Golf Club dates back to 1912, when Englishman Herbert Hayden Barker set out the course. Host venue for the US Women’s Open in 1951, it was most recently renovated by Bob Cupp in 2003.
The Fields Golf Club
Georgia, United States
The Fields Golf Club
Mike Young designed the layout at The Fields Golf Club in the late 1980s when it was then known as Overlook Links. Following several ownership changes, the course was acquired by Young in 2012 and it’s now operated as a family business.
McLemore Club
Georgia, United States
McLemore Club
Situated on a plateau of Lookout Mountain – with a dramatic new 18th hole perched on the edge of a cliff – the Highlands course at McLemore Club is a Bill Bergin/Rees Jones co-design that replaces the former Canyon Ridge layout.
Landings Club (Palmetto)
Georgia, United States
Landings Club (Palmetto)
Sharing a clubhouse with the Terrapin Point course, the 18-hole Palmetto layout at The Landings Club is one of two Arthur Hills designs at this golf complex. It was the 4th course to appear here in 1985 and it’s still rated the toughest.
Reynolds Lake Oconee (National)
Georgia, United States
Reynolds Lake Oconee (National)
Tom Fazio’s National was the fourth 18-hole layout to open at Reynolds Lake Oconee in 1997. Fazio returned to add a third nine (named Cove) in 2000, but it’s the original Ridge and Bluff loops that form the premier 18-hole course.
Lanier Islands Legacy
Georgia, United States
Lanier Islands Legacy
Lanier Islands Legacy Golf Course was redesigned in 2009 by Billy Fuller, the Augusta National superintendent from 1981 to 1986, who’s best known for developing the Better Billy Bunker method of bunker construction.
Country Club of the South
Georgia, United States
Country Club of the South
Jack Nicklaus designed the course at the Country Club of the South, where golfers first teed up on the new layout in 1987. It’s been recently renovated, with work carried out on tee boxes, fairways and practice facilities.
TPC Sugarloaf (Stables & Meadows)
Georgia, United States
TPC Sugarloaf (Stables & Meadows)
The Stables and Meadows nines at the 27-hole TPC Sugarloaf complex were Greg Norman’s first US design efforts when they debuted in 1997 with the Pines circuit following three years later.
Landings Club (Terrapin Point)
Georgia, United States
Landings Club (Terrapin Point)
Renamed Terrapin Point during the summer of 2020, this Willard Byrd-designed 18-hole layout was the third course to arrive at The Landings Club forty years previously, having been originally unveiled in 1981 as the Plantation course.