Atlanta Athletic Club Johns Creek Georgia Golf Art

by Reid Callaway

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Atlanta Athletic Club Johns Creek Georgia Golf Art

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Reid Callaway

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Photograph - Photography

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Atlanta Athletic Club......by Reid Callaway
Johns Creek Georgia Golf Art

The Atlanta Athletic Club (AAC), founded in 1898, is a private athletic club in Johns Creek, Georgia, a suburb 23 miles north of Atlanta. The original home of the club was a 10-story building located on Carnegie Way, and in 1904 a golf course was built on Atlanta's East Lake property. In 1908, John Heisman (the Auburn and Georgia Tech football coach for whom the Heisman Trophy was named) was hired as the AAC athletic director.

In 1967 the AAC sold both properties and moved to a big site in a then-unincorporated area of Fulton County that had a Duluth mailing address and would eventually become Johns Creek in 2006. The vacated East Lake site became East Lake Golf Club and was refurbished during the 1990s. It is now the home of The Tour Championship, currently the final event of the PGA Tour golf season.

Famous members of the AAC include golfers Bobby Jones, Charles R. Yates, Alexa Stirling, basketball player Mark Price, football player and coach Dan Reeves, Daddy Barcomb, football player Matthew Stafford, and Michael Nicklaus, youngest son of Jack Nicklaus. In the 2004 film Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius the AAC was used to film many of the golf scenes.


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