Few American cities carry more golf weight than Augusta, Georgia, and Forest Hills Golf Club has been part of that story for generations. The club dates to the 1920s and was designed by Donald Ross, the Scottish-born architect whose fingerprints are on some of the most respected courses in the country. Ross's characteristic features — crowned greens that shed shots to the edges, subtle false fronts, and fairways that reward the patient strategist over the pure power player — are very much present here, making Forest Hills a genuine piece of American golf history hiding in plain sight behind its more famous neighbor down Magnolia Lane.
Augusta itself sits along the Savannah River in the Georgia Piedmont, where the landscape shifts from coastal plain to rolling red-clay hills. That terrain gives Forest Hills its natural contour and personality, with mature hardwoods and pines framing nearly every hole.
This is a municipal course today, meaning it remains open to anyone willing to make the trip — a rare chance to play legitimate Donald Ross architecture without a member's invitation.
