Club History

For a club only established in 1990, The Golf Club of Georgia has made an impressive statement both competitively and through its course conditioning and already is recognized as one of the finest 36-hole golf clubs in the country.

Since 1998 The Golf Club of Georgia has hosted The Georgia Cup, an 18-hole match between the reigning United States Amateur and British Amateur Champion, televised by The Golf Channel and Comcast Sports Southeast.

Since 2006 the Club has hosted The United States Collegiate Championship, featuring the nation's top college golf teams and televised by Comcast Sports Southeast.

From 1995-2000 the Club was the site of the Senior Tour's Nationwide Championship, televised by ESPN and won by Hall of Famer Hale Irwin in its final two years.

The Club also has hosted the Georgia Amateur Championship, U.S. Open Sectional Qualifying and the NCAA East Regional Championship.

The Club's Lakeside Course, designed by Arthur Hills, won Golf Digest's prestigious “Best New Private Course in America” award in 1991.

The Creekside course, also designed by Arthur Hills, was opened for play in June, 1993.

Member-owned since 2001, The Golf Club of Georgia has been revered for its standard-setting level of golf course design, day-to-day turf and landscape maintenance and hospitality to its members and their guests.
 

The Golf Club of Georgia through the years:

1991 - Lakeside wins “Best New Private Course in America” award from Golf Digest and also hosts U.S. Open Sectional Qualifying.

1992 - Lakeside again hosts U.S. Open Sectional Qualifying . . .Jim Simmons wins Men's Club Championship.

1993 - Opening of 52,000-square foot clubhouse . . . Sanders and Hills Cottages opened for guest accommodations, providing view of 18th green of new Creekside Course, which quickly is named host of the Georgia Match Play Championship. . . . Lakeside hosts the Georgia State Amateur Championship, won by Carter Mize. . . . Morgan Pridemore wins Men's Club Championship . . . Laurie Johnson wins first of three consecutive Women's Club Championships.

1995 - Bob Murphy wins the first Senior Tour Nationwide Championship. . . .Bill Heys captures Men's Club Championship. . . Georgia Tech, one of the nation's most successful college golf programs, makes The Golf Club of Georgia its home club.

1996 - Jim Colbert wins the Nationwide Championship. . . Craig Carson wins the first of three consecutive Men's Club Championships.

1997 - Graham Marsh wins the Nationwide Championship. . . Cas Boles wins women's club championship.

1998 - Georgia Tech's Matt Kuchar, the 1997 U.S. Amateur champion, defeats British Amateur champion Craig Watson in the inaugural Georgia Cup Match, played on Lakeside, 3 & 1.  . . John Jacobs captures the Nationwide Championship. . . . Marci Morettini wins first of two straight Women's Club Championships.

1999 - Spain's Sergio Garcia, the British Amateur Champion, defeats Hank Kuehne of the U.S. in The Georgia Cup, 5 & 4, on Lakeside . . . Hale Irwin wins the Nationwide Championship . . . Lakeside's 11th hole is honored by Golf Digest as one of  “America's 99 Greatest Golf Holes: The Par 5's” . . Brian Ferris is crowned as Men's Club Champion.

2000 - U.S. Amateur champion David Gossett defeats British Amateur Champion, Graeme Storm, 3 & 2, on Lakeside in The Georgia Cup . . . Hale Irwin repeats as Nationwide Championship winner, holing out for eagle at the 18th hole. . . Jim Sale wins Men's Club Championship, with Maria Dresnick taking the women's title.

2001 - The Golf Club of Georgia is purchased by its members from Fuji Development USA and Hajime Yamazaki, with Bill Fralic assuming duties as Club President. . . British Amateur champion Mikko Ilonen defeats American Jeff Quinney in The Georgia Cup, 6 & 4, on Creekside. . .Fred Rescigno, Jr. wins first of three consecutive Men's Club Championships . . . Meigan Putnam wins first of four consecutive Women's Club Championships.

2002 - Michael Hoey defeats United States Amateur champion Bubba Dickerson, 4 & 2, on Creekside in The Georgia Cup.

2003 - U.S. Amateur champion Ricky Barnes defeats British Amateur Champion Alejandro Larrazabal in The Georgia Cup, 4 & 2, on Lakeside . . .Rob Parker succeeds Bill Fralic as Club President.

2004 - British Amateur Champion Gary Wolstenholme defeats Australian Nick Flanagan, 4 & 2, on Creekside in the first Georgia Cup without an American participating. . .  Bill Fralic is elected Club President for a third year. . . Peter Kelly wins Men's Club Championship. . .The Club awards memberships to Georgia Tech All-American Troy Matteson and former Georgia Tech player Kris Mikkelsen.  . . The Club becomes the permanent site of a TaylorMade Motion Analysis system, offering the highest in instructional and club-fitting technology, headed by director of instruction Rob Stocke.

2005 – United States Amateur Champion Ryan Moore defeats British Amateur champion Stuart Wilson, 2 & 1, in The Georgia Cup, on Creekside . . . Rick Bortles replaces Bill Fralic as Club President.  . . .Through successful fund-raising from The Georgia Cup, The Golf Club of Georgia becomes the largest single contributor to the Yates Scholarship Fund of the Georgia State Golf Foundation . . . Former Georgia player Nick Cassini and former Georgia State player Jonathan Fricke are added as members. . . . Director of Golf Jeff Paton and Director of Grounds Randy Waldron are named Co-General Managers. . . .Teenage talent makes an impact with Alex Frankel, 15, winning the Men's Club Championship and Caitlin Pisciotta, 13, winning the women's title.

2006 - Ireland 's Brian McElhinney, the British Amateur Champion, defeats United States Amateur Champion Edoardo Molinari of Italy, 3 and 2, on Lakeside in The Georgia Cup, with two Europeans competing in the event for the first time. . . . The Club awards a record check of $43,000 to the Georgia State Golf Foundation's Yates Scholarship Fund from Georgia Cup proceeds. . . . Bill Delmont succeeds Rick Bortles as Club President. . . . Clemson wins team title of the inaugural United States Collegiate Championship on Lakeside, with Stephen Poole of Clemson capturing the individual title. Clemson coach Larry Penley calls the USCC “the best college event I've ever seen.” . . Peter Kelly regains Men's Club Championship, winning his third title. . . . Marci Morettini wins her third Women's Club Championship. . . . John Felker takes the Championship Flight of the Edward G. Quinn Memorial Senior Club Championship. . . . Invitational Member Troy Matteson wins his first PGA Tour event, the Frys.com Open in Las Vegas, finishes 36th on the PGA Tour money list and qualifies for the 2007 Masters. . . .Member Matt Kuchar finishes 10th on the Nationwide Tour money list and regains his PGA Tour card for 2007. . . .For the second straight year, Golf World Magazine names The GCOG as one of the “Top 100 Golf Shops in America” top 25 among private clubs. . . .NCAA Champion Oklahoma State, UCLA and Southern Cal are invited to the United States Collegiate Championship, which is expanded to 15 teams and three days of competition for 2007.
 
2007 - The Club hosts the 10th Anniversary Georgia Cup Honorary Captain's Dinner, with 2007 Honorary Captain Steve Melnyk officiating . . . Scotland's Richie Ramsay, the United States Amateur Champion, defeats British Amateur Champion Julien Guerrier of France, 2 & 1, on Lakeside in the 10th Anniversary Georgia Cup, which draws record crowds of nearly 1,000 in perfect spring weather . . . . No. 1-ranked Georgia captures the second United States Collegiate Championship, by eight shots over UCLA, with Wake Forest's Webb Simpson finishing as Individual Champion. . . . .Continuing its support of local tour players, the Club awards a membership to two-time PGA Tour winner Heath Slocum of Alpharetta . . .The Club hosts the NCAA East Regional, also won by Georgia, and enhances its chances to host a future NCAA Championship . . . Memberships are awarded to Georgia Tech's Roberto Castro and Georgia's Brendon Todd.