# The Best Golf Courses in Fulton County, Georgia Source: https://thecourserankings.com/blog/the-best-golf-courses-in-fulton-county-ga/ [The Course Rankings](/) County Rankings / Georgia A golfer walking a fairway. Photo: PattayaPatrol, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Fulton County holds 24 courses in our dataset. The county runs from Buckhead and Midtown out to Johns Creek, Milton, and Roswell, and the golf follows the money and the land: old in-town clubs, then championship golf in the northern suburbs, then Pete Dye and Jack Nicklaus in horse country. Almost all of the best of it is private, some at the highest estimate tier in American golf. The public exceptions matter more here because they are so few. We rank the golf first, as in [the 5 best golf courses in Georgia](/blog/the-5-best-golf-courses-in-georgia/). ## 1Peachtree Golf Club Peachtree stands apart in Atlanta golf the way a certain Augusta club stands apart in Georgia golf, and the connection is the point: this is Bobby Jones's home club project, private in the fullest sense, revered by players who have seen it. We give it no invented specifics because its record in our file is reputation, and the reputation is unanimous enough to carry No. 1. A Fulton County list that started elsewhere would be arguing for its own sake. ## 2Atlanta Athletic Club Highlands Course Highlands is the county's proven championship course. It hosted the PGA Championship in 1976, 2001, and 2011, the 2011 edition won by Keegan Bradley in a playoff, plus the 1976 U.S. Open won by Jerry Pate, whose 18th hole shot is club lore, and the 2021 KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Rees Jones reworked it for the 2011 PGA. Robert Trent Jones Sr. and Joe Lee are in its design lineage, from the club's move era. Private, 36 holes in Johns Creek, costs in the high estimate tier. If Peachtree is the mystique, Highlands is the evidence. ## 3Capital City Club Crabapple Tom Fazio designed Crabapple in Milton, opened in 2002, the third golf facility of a club founded in 1883. It hosted the 2003 WGC-American Express Championship, won by Tiger Woods, which remains the loudest single credential any Fulton County course not named Highlands can claim. Dramatic elevation and Fazio bunkering in Atlanta's northern horse country. A World Golf Championship field came here, the best player of his generation won, and the course has lived comfortably on that standard since. ## 4Cherokee Town & Country Club North Course Joe Lee designed the North Course at Cherokee's Buckhead campus, the headline layout of a club with two campuses, Town in Buckhead and Country in Sandy Springs. It has hosted Georgia amateur championships and carries a membership our record calls elite, with costs in the highest estimate tier. It ranks below the championship venues above it on national evidence, and ahead of everything below it on design and setting inside the city itself. ## 5Ansley Golf Club Settindown Creek Bob Cupp designed Settindown Creek in Roswell, opened in 1990, the championship course of Ansley Golf Club, a club founded in 1912 in Ansley Park. Settindown hosted the 1995 U.S. Women's Amateur and Nike Tour events in the 1990s, and the record warns plainly that creek and wetlands shape a demanding back nine. Ansley's two facility model, a nine hole Midtown original plus this Roswell championship course, is unusual in Atlanta and gives its members two completely different golf lives. The Roswell one is the real test. ## 6Atlanta National Golf Club Pete and P.B. Dye designed Atlanta National in Milton, opened in 1987. Railroad ties, waste areas, island-style features: the full Dye vocabulary, applied to Atlanta's northern suburbs when Dye was at the height of his powers and his menace. It has hosted local USGA qualifying and carries a demanding slope from the back tees. Private, and the clearest change of pace on this list. Everything above it is classical or corporate polish. Atlanta National is the one that wants to argue with you. ## 7Country Club of the South Jack Nicklaus designed this Johns Creek course, opened in 1987, par 72 at 6,982 yards with a 74.3 rating and a 143 slope. It hosted the Champions Tour Nationwide Championship from 1991 to 1994. Those numbers and that tour history place it firmly in the county's second tier of championship golf, a hard course that held a senior tour finale for four seasons. Private, along the Chattahoochee area, and still the Nicklaus entry in a county where his name carries weight. ## 8Capital City Club Brookhaven Fazio again, opened in 1991, the second course of Capital City Club, on rolling Brookhaven terrain with lakes. It has hosted local USGA and Georgia PGA events rather than national ones, and that is the honest line between No. 8 and the club's own Crabapple course at No. 3. Brookhaven is the members' championship layout in town, closer to the club's downtown roots, and a fine course that suffers only from being the second best Fazio in its own club. ## 9Bobby Jones Golf Course Atlanta The public anchor, and a genuinely original one. Atlanta's municipal course named for Bobby Jones opened in 1932 and was rebuilt by Bob Cupp as a reversible nine hole course, reopened in 2018, with two routings, Azalea and Magnolia, sharing large double greens with two pin placements on each. It is home to the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame and the Murray Golf House. Municipal access at premium in-town pricing. Nine holes cannot outrank the championship courses above it, but no course in the county does more for the public game. Past these nine, the back of the list is ordinary in places and better in others: Atlanta Athletic's Riverside Course is most clubs' No. 1, Chastain Park is a 1938 municipal with Chandler Egan lineage, and the Alfred Tup Holmes course carries a civil rights history that outranks its architecture. The summit is private, expensive by any estimate, and split between a Jones legend in the city and a championship record in Johns Creek. **Reader responses are open.** Please cite a specific hole, a price, or a round you have played.