| 2025-2026 ranking
The best golf courses in Georgia
An interesting battle is being waged for the No. 2 position in the Georgia state ranking (we don't anticipate Augusta National being moved off the top spot anytime soon). Just four years ago, Ohoopee Match Club, a 2018 Gil Hanse/Jim Wagner design in the scrubby south-central part of the state, didn't have enough ballots to qualify for the America's 100 Greatest Courses ranking (it now does, and is listed at No. 36). It did, however, have enough to qualify for Best in State, and its scores placed it second, ahead of perennial runner-up Peachtree Golf Club, the great Robert Trent Jones/Bobby Jones collaboration in Atlanta. Then, Peachtree turned the table and scored higher, earned back the second spot in 2023 and held onto that place again this year and in fact extended its lead to over a point.
Change has come elsewhere, too. As is true across the country, Georgia has been a hotspot for renovation. Nine of the top 20 courses have executed or are in the midst of remodels, and two will go under the knife soon: Capital City’s Crabapple Course by Tom Fazio this summer; and the Atlanta Athletic Club’s Highlands Course, ranked No. 162 nationally and host of past U.S. Opens and PGA Championships, in 2028 by Andrew Green. Green made the biggest noise this year following his major remodel of East Lake that produce a jump of 44 places from No. 150 to No. 106. Times are good for private clubs.
Below you'll find our 2025-'26 ranking of the Best Golf Courses in Georgia. If you're interested in the best public options, check out our collection of the best courses you can play in Georgia.
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From Golf Digest Architecture Editor emeritus Ron Whitten:
I’ve been told Gil Hanse had first examined the site of Ohoopee Match Club as far back as 2006 considered it ideal for golf: gently rolling terrain with no severe elevation changes, and beautiful sandy soil deposited by the nearby Ohoopee River, perfect for drainage and firm, fast conditions.
The ground around tiny Cobbtown, Ga., is also perfect for growing onions—it’s just northeast of Vidalia, world-famous for the Vidalia onion. Indeed, Ohoopee’s logo is a freshly picked onion, although if you look closely, its roots are three writhing snakes.
Any symbolism pertaining to match play is uncertain; perhaps it simply suggests the sort of putts one will face. What’s the composition of a course meant for match play? One might think it would contain lots of penal hazards, because a triple bogey on any particular hole would not be fatal in match play.
Perhaps the targets would be smaller than normal, to level the playing field between big hitters and short-but-accurate golfers. That’s not the composition of the 7,325-yard championship course at Ohoopee. Hanse did produce dramatic visuals in this sandy locale that hark back to portions of Pinehurst and Pine Valley, from long expanses of sandy rough dotted with native plants to deep, foreboding pits of sand, but they’re mostly on the far perimeter of holes.
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