Druid Hills Golf Club

Druid Hills Golf Club opened in 1912 in one of Atlanta's first fashionable eastside suburbs, ranking among the city's oldest courses alongside East Lake and Capital City. The layout was routed by Englishman Herbert Hayden Barker, a former amateur standout who crossed to America to serve as head professional at Garden City before designing roughly a dozen original courses. Barker spent weeks on the property working in two meandering streams and natural hazards, and avoided parallel and crossing holes. The club's early roster read like an Atlanta founders' list, including Asa Candler and Ernest Woodruff. Its most celebrated tie is to Bobby Jones: as a thirteen-year-old junior member, Jones captured the club championship in 1915, an early step toward the only Grand Slam in golf. The course has since been refined by consulting architects.