Atlanta Country Club

Founded by Atlanta businessman Jim Clay with the ambition of drawing a PGA Tour event to the city, Atlanta Country Club took shape in the mid-1960s. Willard Byrd laid out the course, which opened in 1965 along historic Sope Creek in Marietta, near Civil War-era paper mill ruins that lend the property a wooded, secluded character. Bob Cupp and Jack Nicklaus later reworked portions of the layout, and Beau Welling Design led an extensive 2023 renovation that rebuilt greens, bunkers and drainage. For three decades the club hosted the PGA Tour's Atlanta Classic (1967 to 1996), which carried the Georgia-Pacific, BellSouth Atlanta Golf Classic and BellSouth Classic names over the years. In 1974 it staged the inaugural Tournament Players Championship, won by Nicklaus. The event moved to TPC Sugarloaf in 1997.