Northeast Atlanta

Accommodations:

Chateau Élan Winery & Resort

Location:

The Legends at Chateau Élan
Home to the former Sarazen World Open Championship, The Legends was designed by legendary greats Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead and Kathy Whitworth. Each of the legends worked with Denis Griffiths on 6 holes and gave him their ideas of each holes. Certainly noticeable at The Legends is the tribute to traditional golf course architecture of the early 1900's.  What a thrill it must have been for Griffiths. Playing this track is quite a thrill as well.  The Legends is an exclusive private club that gracefully winds through the heart of Château Élan and you can experience it!  

Chateau Course
Denis Griffiths cut his designer's teeth on this outstanding example of utilizing the natural terrain to build a golf course. The Course opened in July of 1989 and winds along three lakes and two creeks.  Water comes into play on 10 of the 18 holes while 87 bunkers give definition and character to the Bermuda fairways and smooth bent grass greens. Built on 170 acres of the finest terrain, the 7,030-yard layout of The Château course plays to a par 71. Golf Digest rated this track 4-stars.  This is a wonderful resort course with excellent range facilities. You'll need to hit accurate shot or you'll end up in trouble. 

The Woodlands Course                                                                                  Opening in 1996, this course is one of the top-notch tracks in Georgia.  Experience drops of 70 feet and rises of more than 40 feet on this rolling course.  Three years in the making, Denis Griffiths showed a great understanding of sculpting and utilizing the landscape. The Woodlands features a true nine-holes out and nine-holes in, moving effortlessly from pasture to forest to water. The tree-lined fairways are narrow and tend to favor the player with solid tee shots. Because of the hilly terrain, be prepared for some uneven lies. There are no 'let-up' holes on this track.  The greens on this course are as undulating as the other courses, but they are slightly larger. Golf Digest rated this track an outstanding 4½ stars.

Bear’s Best - When it comes to building golf courses, there may few designers that can compare to Jack Nicklaus.  In Atlanta, he gave us a collection of his favorite holes.  The layout is comprised of holes from notable courses such as Gleneagles, Mount Juliet, Muirfield Village, Old Works, PGA "Championship" Course, TPC of Michigan, and Sherwood Country Club. Beginning at number one, an elegant and simple downhill par-4 from St. Mellion in England, and continuing through number five, the routing rides the terrain out to a lower sector of the property where the next six holes run out and back over the flatlands along the Chattahoochee River. Holes 12 through 18 wander through the hills back toward the clubhouse, culminating in a monstrous par-4, the 18th at Castle Pines in Denver. One remarkable aspect of Bear's Best Atlanta is that in spite of its necessarily disparate parts the course plays amazingly complete, gracefully even. While there are different bunker styles and varying green sizes and shapes from green to tee there's nary a flinch of reaction -- it's just one solid hole after another. Against the notoriously rugged North Atlanta countryside the routing remains gentle and overall the course is rather forgiving; even from the championship tees Bear's Best plays quite shorter than its 6,857 yards.  In addition to golf carts, Bear’s Best has fore caddie program that will make your round even more enjoyable.  Located 40 minutes from downtown Atlanta.