Johns Creek, GA
Atlanta Athletic Club
Atlanta Athletic Club began in 1898 with a life divided between downtown Atlanta and East Lake. As members moved north, the Club followed, consolidating at its Johns Creek property in the late 1960s.
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Atlanta Athletic Club history
Its downtown building had opened in 1926 with athletic rooms and guest accommodation. Members later voted to sell it, and the building was imploded in 1973. At the new home, Bobby Jones’s preserved letter asking the USGA to bring his favorite tournament to the Club records the personal appeal behind the 1976 U.S. Open.
Championships
Results and dates 10 editions
PGA Championship
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Larry Nelson
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David Toms
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Keegan Bradley
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U.S. Amateur
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Gunn Yang
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U.S. Girls' Junior
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Aphrodite Deng
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U.S. Junior Amateur
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Charlie Beljan
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U.S. Mid-Amateur
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Michael Podolak
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U.S. Open
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Jerry Pate
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U.S. Women's Open
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Betsy King
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Women's PGA Championship
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KPMG Women's PGA Championship
Nelly Korda
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In the archive
Sources and editorial notes17 references
Sources for this story
- Atlanta Athletic Club | History Atlanta Athletic Club
Institutional history and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources16 references
- Club mark source
- GCSAA: 2014 U.S. Amateur Highlands fact sheet, page 2
- AEdG Greenkeepers: September 2019, conference speaker biography, PDF page 51
- Atlanta Athletic Club
- Robert Trent Jones Society: geographical work list, PDF page 5
- Atlanta Athletic Club
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Girls Junior record book, page 9 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26GirlsJunior.pdf; SHA-256 311526e6f45012af71b823745da59f40499591f1efae990bafaa12566d8bfc15. Exact result row: 2025 (July 14-19) Aphrodite Deng d. Xingtong Chen , 2 and 1; Atlanta Athletic Club (Riverside Course), Johns Creek, Ga.; Medalist — 136, Grace Carter ; Entries: 1,500 * Record qualifying score, 18 holes (1956, 1962, 1963) • Record qualifying score, 36 holes (2005) § Record entry (2023) 9 U.S. Girls’ Junior Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. Named Course identity is supported by the championship result or the archived primary routing evidence.
- PGA of America: official KPMG Women’s PGA Championship history Official 2021 history record: June 24-27, 2021; Atlanta Athletic Club, Johns Creek, Georgia; winner Nelly Korda, 269 (-19). Winner and round-score total agree with the organizer’s separate winners table.
- USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 11, 2014 result row. Gunn Yang def. Corey Conners, 2 and 1. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.
- 2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 93rd playing, champion, site, and its year-page date span. The recorded venue and champion preserve the official PGA Championship History entry’s published text.
- PGA of America and Atlanta Athletic Club: Highlands championship history The official 2021 PGA article assigns three PGA Championships to the Highlands Course; the official dated register and the owner-published Highlands history enumerate 1981, 2001 and 2011. Rees Jones directly confirms Highlands work before the 2001 and 2011 PGAs, and the 2026 official Guide explicitly names Highlands for 2011. Riverside and the former East Lake property are excluded. This imports no unrelated event or design attribution.
- USGA: U.S. Junior Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 9, 2002 result row. Completed championship and final result. Charlie Beljan defeated Zac Reynolds, 20 holes. Actual date range from the retrospective result table.
- USGA Women's Open Champions and Championship Results The official champions table records the 1990 winner and site. Recorded site text follows that table; no canonical Club or Course identity is inferred. Explicit date span: www.usga.org
- Official Club history and USGA host and result records USGA host register identifies Atlanta Athletic Club, Johns Creek, and its 1990 Women's Open, resolving the historical Duluth locality in the champions table. Dated results explicitly identify Riverside Course: www.usga.org
- USGA: U.S. Mid-Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 8, 1984 result row. Completed championship, finalists and final match margin are recorded. Match-play margin is not a stroke total. Actual date range transcribed from the retrospective championship results.
- 2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 1976 Championship, champion, explicit date span, and site in Championship Results: 1895 to 2025. The recorded champion and site preserve the higher-resolution register text. The current official U.S. Open Champions table independently confirms the year, champion, and site.