Few clubs in the American South carry the weight of golfing history that Atlanta Country Club does. Founded in the early 20th century and later redesigned by Joe Lee, the Marietta layout earned its national reputation as the longtime home of the Atlanta Classic, a PGA Tour event that brought the game's biggest names — Nicklaus, Player, Trevino, and others — to Cobb County for decades. That tournament pedigree shaped the course's DNA: this is a design built to examine every facet of a player's game, with tree-lined fairways, demanding approaches, and greens that reward precision over power.
Marietta sits just northwest of Atlanta proper, where the Georgia Piedmont gives the land its gentle but purposeful roll. The club occupies mature, heavily wooded terrain — the kind of hardwood canopy that makes summers feel enclosed and fall rounds genuinely beautiful.
Atlanta Country Club is a private members' club, and the atmosphere reflects that heritage: serious about golf, proud of its past, and quietly confident in its place among the Southeast's most storied layouts.
