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Peachtree Golf Club
Atlanta Athletic Club’s record of Bobby Jones’s achievements places the founding of Peachtree Golf Club in 1947. It came after Augusta National and the Masters, bringing another club-building project into the later career of the retired champion.1
- Location
- Atlanta, GA
- Course
- 18 holes · par 72
- Original architect
- Robert Trent Jones
- Club website
- Visit website
Bobby Jones’s Atlanta undertaking
Early member Norris Broyles Jr. recalled a deliberate effort to bring younger golfers into the Club in 1955. Sons of existing members, including Broyles, received reduced initiation fees while paying regular dues, adding a new generation to a membership he remembered as predominantly older.2
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Sources and editorial notes5 references
Sources for this story
- Legacies: Bobby Jones Atlanta Athletic Club
Main historical narrative and course descriptions; stale future-event language excluded.
Consulted 2026-09-21 - Oral History Interview with Norris A. Broyles Jr., 2014 Buckhead Heritage Society
Transcript pages 11–12, recollections of 1955 membership and the Club’s founding purpose.
Consulted 2026-09-21