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Atlanta Athletic Club pin flag Robert Trent Jones pga open ryder british

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    Description

    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.
    While it was downtown, its team placed third in the 1921
    Amateur Athletic Union
    National
    Basketball
    Championship defeating
    Lowe and Campbell Athletic Goods
    36-31 in the third place game.
    [1]
    At the time colleges, athletic clubs and factory-sponsored clubs all competed in the same league.
    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.
    The AAC hosted the 1950
    U.S. Women's Amateur
    and 1963
    Ryder Cup
    at East Lake, the 1976
    U.S. Open
    , the 1981, 2001, and 2011
    PGA Championships
    on its Highlands Course, and the 1990
    U.S. Women's Open
    on its Riverside Course. The AAC used both of its current regulation courses to host the 2014
    U.S. Amateur
    , with stroke-play qualifying on the Riverside Course and match play on the Highlands Course. The Riverside course, renovated by
    Rees Jones
    in 2002, was recognized among the top 10 new private courses in 2004 by
    Golf Digest
    .
    The AAC has hosted many non-golf events including the first two
    Southeastern Conference
    men's basketball tournaments in 1933 and 1934. In 1984 and 1985, the AAC hosted the
    U.S. Open Badminton Championship
    . During the 1990s, the AAC hosted the AT&T Challenge, Atlanta's ATP professional tennis stop.
    The AAC has two 18-hole golf courses, a health center, indoor and outdoor tennis, a par-3 course, Olympic-sized pool, as well as dining.
    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.
    Major tournaments hosted
    [
    edit
    ]
    Year
    Tournament
    Course(s)
    Winner
    1976
    ^
    U.S. Open
    Highlands
    Jerry Pate
    1981
    ^
    PGA Championship
    Highlands
    Larry Nelson
    1990
    #
    U.S. Women’s Open
    Riverside
    Betsy King
    2001
    ^
    PGA Championship
    Highlands
    David Toms
    2011
    ^
    PGA Championship
    Highlands
    Keegan Bradley
    2014
    U.S. Amateur
    Riverside (stroke play)
    Highlands (match play)
    Gunn Yang
    2017
    Arnold Palmer Cup
    Highlands
    U.S.19.5-11.5