This Is The Best Golf Course In GA, Say Pro Golfers Who’ve Played It

GEORGIA — Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta is the best golf course Georgia has to offer, according to a new ranking developed by golfers themselves.

Golf Digest deploys 1,700 professionally trained low-handicap golfers to continually assess the golf courses. The rankings are based on more than 80,000 evaluations over 10 years looking at criteria such as short options, challenge, design variety, conditioning, aesthetics and character.

“No club has tinkered with its golf course as often or as effectively over the decades as has Augusta National Golf Club, mainly to keep it competitive for the annual Masters Tournament, an event it has conducted since 1934, with time off during WWII. All that tinkering has resulted in an amalgamation of design ideas, with a routing by Alister Mackenzie and Bobby Jones, some Perry Maxwell greens, some Trent Jones water hazards, some Jack Nicklaus mounds and swales and, most recently, extensive rebunkering and tree planting by Tom Fazio. The tinkering continues, including the lengthening of the par-4 fifth in the summer of 2018, the lengthening of the 11th and 15th holes in 2022, and the addition of 35 yards to the famed par-5 13th in 2023,” Golf Digest wrote.

There are plenty of other courses in Georgia that prioritize the aesthetics of their fairways and greens and test the golfers who play on them with a variety of challenges.

They are:

• Peachtree Golf Club in Atlanta
• Ohoopee Match Club in Cobbtown
• East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta
• Ocean Forest Golf Club in Sea Island
• Atlanta Athletic Club: Highlands in Johns Creek
• Atlanta Country Club in Marietta
• Sea Island: Seaside in St. Simons Island
• Frederica Golf Club in St. Simons Island
• Lookout Mountain Club in Lookout Mountain

This is the 25th edition of Golf Digest’s Best in State ranking, which has been published continually since 1977.

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