Atlanta Athletic Club

Encyclopedia : A : AT : ATL : Atlanta Athletic Club

The Atlanta Athletic Club, (AAC), founded in 1898, is a world-renowned athletic club in Duluth, Georgia, which is a suburb 23 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia. 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 1967 the AAC sold both properties and moved to an expansive site in Duluth, Georgia. The vacated East Lake site became East Lake Golf Club and was refurbished during the 1990's, and is now the home of THE TOUR Championship PGA golf tournament.

The AAC has hosted the 1976 U.S. Open, and the 1981 and 2001 PGA Championships on its Highlands Course and the 1990 U.S. Women's Open on its Riverside Course. The Club is scheduled to host its third PGA Championship in 2011. It also hosted the first two Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournaments in 1933 and 1934.

The AAC offers two 18-hole golf courses, a health center, indoor and outdoor tennis, a par-3 course, olympic-sized pool, as well as fine dining.

Famous members of the AAC include golfers Bobby Jones (golfer), Charles R. Yates, and Alexa Stirling.

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.