Atlanta Athletic Club
Club information
LocationJohns Creek, Georgia, U.S.
Established1898 (1904 for golf course)
TypePrivate
Total holes45
Events hosted
WebsiteAtlanta Athletic Club
Highlands Course
Designed byRobert Trent Jones, back 9
Joe Lee, front 9
Rees Jones (2006 & 2016 redesigned)
Par72
Length7,613 yards (6,961 m)
Course rating77.0
Riverside Course
Designed byRobert Trent Jones
Rees Jones (2003 redesign)
Tripp Davis (2022 redesigned)
Par71
Length7,152 yards (6,540 m)
Course rating76.2
Par 3 Course
Par27

Atlanta Athletic Club (AAC), founded in 1898, is a private country club in Johns Creek, Georgia, a suburb 23 miles north of Atlanta. The original home of the club was a 10-story building located on Carnegie Way, and in 1904 a golf course was built on Atlanta's East Lake property. In 1908, John Heisman (the Georgia Tech football coach for whom the Heisman Trophy was named) was hired as the AAC athletic director.

While it was downtown, its team placed third in the 1921 Amateur Athletic Union National Basketball Championship defeating Lowe and Campbell Athletic Goods 36–31 in the third place game.[1] At the time colleges, athletic clubs and factory-sponsored clubs all competed in the same league.

It built 3 9-hole golf courses in 1967, in a then-unincorporated area of Fulton County that had a Duluth mailing address and would eventually become Johns Creek in 2006. In 1968, the AAC sold the East Lake property. The vacated East Lake site became East Lake Golf Club and was refurbished during the 1990s. It is now the home of The Tour Championship, currently the final event of the PGA Tour golf season.

AAC hosted the 1950 U.S. Women's Amateur and 1963 Ryder Cup at East Lake, the 1976 U.S. Open, the 1981, 2001 and 2011 PGA Championships, and the 2021 KPMG PGA Women's Championship on its Highlands Course, and the 1990 U.S. Women's Open on its Riverside Course. The AAC used both of its current regulation courses to host the 2014 U.S. Amateur, with stroke-play qualifying on the Riverside and Highlands Courses and match play on the Highlands Course. The Riverside course, renovated by Rees Jones in 2002, was recognized among the top 10 new private courses in 2004 by Golf Digest. It as renovated again in 2022 by Tripp Davis.

AAC has hosted many non-golf events including the first two Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournaments in 1933 and 1934. In 1984 and 1985, AAC hosted the U.S. Open Badminton Championship. During the 1990s, AAC hosted the AT&T Challenge, Atlanta's ATP professional tennis stop.

AAC has two 18-hole golf courses, a fitness center, indoor and outdoor tennis, a par-3 course, Olympic-sized pool, as well as dining.

Famous members of AAC include golfers Bobby Jones, Charlie Yates, Alexa Stirling, Watts Gunn, Dot Kirby, and Tommy Barnes; tennis players Nat Thornton and Bitsy Grant; and basketball player Bob Kurland.

In the 2004 film Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, many of the golf scenes were filmed at AAC.

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Key dates

  • 1898 – First organizational meeting and granting of club charter
  • 1899 – Official opening of 56 Edgewood Avenue facility
  • 1902 – Move to new clubhouse at 37 Auburn Avenue
  • 1924 – Purchase of Carnegie Way property (10 story downtown club)
  • 1926 – Opening of Carnegie Way property
  • 1930 – Winning of Grand Slam by Bobby Jones Jr.
  • 1963 – Purchase of River Bend property in Duluth
  • 1967 – Opening of the new 27-hole golf course at River Bend
  • 1968 – Vote by stockholders to sell East Lake Country Club
  • 1969 – Selection of Atlanta Athletic Club Country Club as name for River Bend club
  • 1971 – Decision to sell Carnegie Way town club
  • 1973 – Destruction of Carnegie Way town club
  • 2003 - Second redesign of Riverside course by Rees Jones
  • 2016 – Second redesign of Highlands by Rees Jones
  • 2022 - Third redesign of Riverside course by Tripp Davis

Scorecards

Atlanta Athletic Club – Highlands Course
Tee Rating/Slope 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
1976 U.S. Open -- / -- 4554504602055404401754204153560 37048051039041521541020546034557015
1981 PGA -- / -- 4564584692105464451854224193610 37447051039041521541021346334607070
2001 PGA -- / -- 4304714692045414251834634163602 43945454736444222744120749035117213
2011 PGA -- / -- 4545124752195654251844674263727 44245755137246826047620750737407467
Par U.S.Open & PGA 44435434435 4454434343570
Champ 77.0 / 152 4465434782195674261974704293775 43645755539146826048521057638387613
Gold 75.9 / 149 4425404751945484251834464263679 42144352338745122740920755736257304
Blue 73.9 / 141 3985124451655414031794214073471 40542149536441320437318652833896860
Tournament 72.6 / 142 3984714071425414031793764073324 37939347436436520437315452832346558
White 71.3 / 134 3684714071425013701623763723169 37939347433936517533615450031156284
Green 68.8 / 127 3244483631284693301353493512897 36233944830733514529612446228185715
SI Men's 1335151917711 12621481610184
Par 45435434436 4454434353672
SI Women's 9371511317511 68212101814164
Green 74.5 / 142 3244483631284693301353493512897 36233944830733514529612446228185715
Tournament 73.3 / 136 3104413241284363301352953512750 35333938929232314529612439726585408
Black 71.6 / 131 3104413249243629690295307259135331838929232310326610339725445135
Silver 70.1 / 129 31039928992405296902532732407 3533183892662831032669535824314838


Atlanta Athletic Club – Riverside Course
Tee Rating/Slope 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Gold 74.9 / 141 6024441683985841974812154883577 40717955441731144045624356735747152
Blue 73.2 / 137 5714211553705551794461924623351 38416552940338943044021754434016752
Tournament
White 70.6 / 133 5473981253485401483971604233086 36214149937027640939018150831366222
Green 67.5 / 125 4903581043164721213481353812722 33011545431924936934015344527745496
SI Men's 543453434 3543544435
Par 54544343436 4345444353671
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Black 64.9 / 122 4502958026042410232512233823962989541627322531230513140524604857

Major tournaments hosted

YearTournamentCourse(s)Winner
1950 U.S. Women's Amateur East Lake Country Club Beverly Hanson
1963 Ryder Cup East Lake Country Club USA - Arnold Palmer
1976U.S. OpenHighlandsJerry Pate
1981PGA ChampionshipHighlandsLarry Nelson
1990U.S. Women's OpenRiversideBetsy King
2001PGA ChampionshipHighlandsDavid Toms
2011PGA ChampionshipHighlandsKeegan Bradley
2014U.S. AmateurRiverside (stroke play)
Highlands (stroke and match play)		Gunn Yang
2017Arnold Palmer CupHighlandsU.S. 19.5–11.5
2021Women's PGA ChampionshipHighlandsNelly Korda

References

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