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.
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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.
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Peachtree Golf Club is located in Atlanta and it’s the course that the Joneses built. Bobby Jones was the inspiration and Robert was the architect.
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".
All profits from East Lake Golf Club go to support the local community. East Lake now stands for hope in Atlanta as well as tradition.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Mention Atlanta Country Club and the BellSouth Classic springs to mind or is it called the AT&T Classic these days?
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.
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.
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 is highly polished and Bob Cupp has tried to create the olde worlde sophistication of classical architecture with a twist of modernity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The golf course at the Currahee Club sits on a very hilly site above Lake Hartwell and Jim Fazio did very well to route the 18 holes around such a heavily contoured property.
Formed in 1973, Rivermont Golf Club's Joe Lee-designed layout has hosted dozens of US Open local qualifying, US Senior Open sectional qualifying and Georgia State Golf Association events down the years.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The Creek Club course is the only private layout at the Reynolds Lake Oconee community, reserved for members and their guests, with Richland Creek coming into play at fourteen of the Jim Engh-designed holes.
Formed as a sports and social club in 1867, The Standard Club moved to its present site in 1987 when Arthur Hills set out an 18-hole golf course (subsequently renovated by Mike Riley in 2004) for the members.
Sharing a clubhouse with the original Marshwood layout at The Landings Club, the Magnolia course is another Arnold Palmer track from 1977 which Tim Liddy remodelled at the start of the new millennium.
The semi-private layout at Achasta Golf Club is a modern Jack Nicklaus Signature Course that brings the Chestatee River into play on several occasions, most notably on the par three 5th hole which is set out on a river island.
The Landing course was the first 18-hole layout to appear at Reynolds Lake Oconee in 1986. Designed by Bob Cupp, it actually started out as the Port Amor Country Club before it was acquired by the resort.
Originally constructed by Robert Trent Jones Senior in 1968, the University of Georgia Golf Course was recently renovated by Davis Love III, enabling it to cope with the demands of the modern day game.
Routed around the wandering waterways of Chicken Creek and Little River, the 18-hole layout at Atlanta National Golf Club is a late 1980s co-design from Pete and P.B. Dye which features many of the famous Dye design elements.
Although Glen Arven Country Club was formed in 1892, the design of the club’s course is credited to architects John van Kleek and Wayne Stiles, who built dozens of well-regarded layouts during the 1920s and 1930s.
Having designed the original course (The Landing) at Reynolds Lake Oconee in 1986, Bob Cupp returned two years later to complete work on his second eighteen holes at the resort, a layout which has since been renamed The Preserve.
The course at Piedmont Driving Club lies twenty miles southwest of the main clubhouse, routed around the sparkling waters of Cowart Lake. It’s a Rees Jones production, having been unveiled to critical acclaim at the start of the new millennium.
