East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, site of the 2024 Tour Championship, will present an almost entirely fresh challenge to the PGA Tour players this week after a restoration led by course architect Andrew Green.
East Lake originally was designed by Tom Bendelow and opened in 1908. Donald Ross redesigned the layout in 1913, George Cobb made changes before the 1963 Ryder Cup, and Rees Jones renovated the layout in 1994.
Green was focused on restoring many of the Ross features and playing characteristics, and he used an image from 1949 as inspiration. Work began shortly after the 2023 Tour Championship, and the results of all the work will be revealed this week.
Among all the changes – which included a complete bunker reworking and alterations to hazards and several hole lengths – it is the greens that stand out. The putting surfaces were changed in size and shape, with new positions for holes that will challenge the Tour players in ways that more-recent iterations never did.
East Lake ranks No. 5 in Georgia on Golfweek’s Best 2024 ranking of private clubs in each state, and it is No. 94 among all classic courses built in the U.S. before 1960. The layout will play to 7,490 yards with a par of 71 for the Tour Championship.
Thanks to yardage books provided by PuttView – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the players face this week at East Lake. Check out the maps of each hole below.