Golf Club in East Lake It has been a match in the golf calendar for 20 years as the last stop of the PGA Tour season. But the property itself has a fluent history and the roots that reach more than a deep century. With another Championship Determined to start on Thursday at the oldest Golf club in Atlanta, here is a time limit of East Lake evolution along with a look at the people and events that have formed the club in what it is today.
1908: a bar cut with stars on
East Lake shares a birthday with the United States. On July 4, 1908, the course and the open club. Among the attendees for cutting the ribbon and a six year old Bobby Jones And his father, Robert Purmedus Jones.
1913: Ross arrives
Tom Bendelow – known as “Johnny Appleseed of American Golf” for spraying about 600 courses in its wake – designs the original East Lake course. But his work in the club does not endure. In 1913, Donald Ross is brought to rebuild the layout. In Ross’s reassessment, each nine turns into a club, something that even in Bendelow design.
1925: up from ash
After a fire consumes the original club, the club employs the marked architect Philip Shutze to design a new one: the two -storey club of the club he conceives becomes part of the iconography of the game. Serves as a shrine for Bobby Jones, filled with memorandums from Jones’ legendary career, including a copy of it Disaster are putter.
1930: a house legend
Bobby Jones, who learned the game in East Lake and won his first children’s tournament on the course, makes history ending the Grand Slam in 1930, winning the US Open, Amateur US, British Open and British amateur. That same year, Donald Ross completed work in a second course in East Lake, known as course 2.
1948: The end of an era
Bobby Jones plays his last competitive round. Convenient, it is in East Lake.
1950: Another first championship
For the first time, a USGA championship is located south of the US, the event is an amateur of American women. The winner is Beverly Hanson. The host course is East Lake.
1963: King as Ryder Cup player-captain
With all the scams these days around KEEGAN BRADLEY As a potential Ryder Cup player, it is worth remembering that the last time a American golf player performed that double task was in the 1963 Ryder Cup in East Lake. Golf was Arnold Palmer. The result was a shell. The US defeated the UK 23-9.
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1993: a new buyer with big plans
Promptic developer and philanthropist of real estate Tom Cousins Bought Lake Lake. But its purpose is not to make that personal playground. In addition to resetting the course itself (cousins work Rees Jones To address a 1994 renovation), its purpose is to revitalize the surrounding community, which, over the decades, has increasingly fallen into economic despair. The cousins soon create the East Lake Foundation, which, drawing most of the club’s income, supports mixed income housing, cradle education in college and a range of community health programs. Among other acquaintances, cousins are given Bob Jones i USGA in 2001 in honor of his contributions to the game.
1998: a hal of a show
Following his inauguration playing a year ago at the Houston Champions Club, the tournament is held in East Lake for the first time. Hal SuttonA former great winner who has joined for decades, wins.
2001: an American amateur
The country’s most prestigious amateur championship comes in East Lake, and Bubba wins. not THAT Bubba Bubba Dickerson.
2005: A permanent site
East Lake has been appointed as a permanent host of the Tour championship. Two years later, with the birth of FedExcup, the event becomes the peak of the large money Play off series. The winner is – Shocker! – Tiger Woods.
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2011: Haas makes a spraying
His ball partially immersed in a water risk from the 17th green (8th hole in the current East Lake course), the eventual winner Bill Haas plays one of the most memorable shooting in the history of the tournament, spraying in three legs to escape before.
2018: Tiger’s return
Numerous surgery and a drought of five-year-old victory later, Woods returns to the winner’s circle with a dramatic show in the tournament. Victory is also the 80th title of his career in the tournament.
2024: Green Redoes greens, and more
Andrew Green, a Veteran of the multiple Ross Restoration Project, including inverness, Scioto and Oak Hill, is recorded to return the course in the way it looked and played on Jones’ day. Placing surfaces that were shrunk in oval, mostly steep back on the front, acquire renewed personality, with more rumors, flanges and ridges that open location of convincing holes. Bunkers take a more natural look, with grassy faces and clumsy eyelashes. The dangers have climbed around the streets of the fair, bringing again strategic challenges that modern technology had made outdated. Reborn’s birth lake debuted last year and will take its second turn in the spotlight this week.
July, 29, 2025: a life fully
Tom Cousins, who headed the many East Lake restorations and established a non -profit that helped resurrect the surrounding community, dies in 93.
