Course Strategist: East Lake Golf Club - A Performance Blueprint

Step onto the course where Bobby Jones learned to play and where the PGA TOUR now crowns its FedEx Cup champion every year.

• This guide covers the newly restored East Lake Golf Club in full: the $30 million Andrew Green renovation that rebuilt every tee, fairway, bunker, and green from scratch, the Golden Age architecture Donald Ross first laid down in 1913, and the shot-by-shot strategy you need to play it well.
  
  
  Inside you'll get:
  
  
  • The full architectural and restoration history - from Tom Bendelow's original 1908 routing to the 2024 rebuild guided by a rediscovered 1949 aerial photo
  • Player profiling, tee selection, and course handicap modeling so you're playing the right tees for your game
  • Shot-by-shot tee, approach, greenside, and putting strategy for all 18 holes, broken out for low, mid, and high handicappers
  • The specific misreads that trip up even good players - deceptive elevation changes, staggered diagonal bunkering, and greens that break harder toward the lake than they look
  
  
  A taste of what's inside - Hole 16, home to Bobby Jones' favorite hazard:
  
  
  "A grueling, steady uphill march that causes the hole to play one to two clubs longer than the yardage indicates... Bobby Jones famously described the hazard to the right of this green - an 'epic,' eight-foot-deep, short-grass depression - as massive in scale and challenge."
  
  
  Whether you're chasing a bucket-list round at one of golf's most storied venues or just want to understand what the pros are actually navigating on TV every August, this guide gives you the real strategic picture - hole by hole, tee by tee.