The golf programs around the state must report Area winners and results to the GHSA on April 28 for Classes 4A-6A and May 5 for Classes 1A-3A. On May 5-6, Classes 4A-6A will host the sectionals to determine who heads to the championships May 19-20.
The state championships will be hosted by 11 courses around the state headlined by the Class 6A championship at Kinderlou Forest in Valdosta, designed by Davis Love III, and Highlands Country Club in LaGrange, the second-nine designed by legendary architect Donald Ross.
Kinderlou previously hosted PGA Nationwide Tour and PGA Web.com Tour events and has been hosting golfers since 2004.
The Class 3A golf season will complete its play at Highland Country Club in LaGrange where the second nine at the course were designed by Ross in 1922 and renovated and expanded to 18 holes by Joe Finger in 1972.
Ross – who was born in Dornoch, Scotland in 1872 — has designed some of the greatest courses in the world including East Lake in Atlanta and Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina, the host of last year’s US Open won by Bryson DeChambeau. Ross passed away in Pinehurst in 1948 at the age of 75.
The Class 5A season will end in the low country with the boys competing at Pine Lakes Golf Course on Jekyll Island and the girls playing at the Sea Island Retreat Golf Course.
Jekyll Island has focused on renovation of its golf-related amenities in the past years and is a welcoming host. Clyde Johnson laid out the Pine Lakes design in 1968 and it was renovated in 2002. On Sea Island, Joe Lee laid out the original design for The Retreat and Love III redesigned and renovated the course in 2001.
The Class 4A boys will crown champions at the Governors Towne Club, while the girls will play at Bentwater Golf Club, both in Acworth. Governors Towne Club was designed by Kenneth G. Horton with help from two-time US Open champion Curtis Strange. Bentwater was designed by Mike Dasher in 2000.
In Class 2A, Bull Creek’s East Course just outside of Columbus will host the boys while the girls will play at Maple Ridge in Columbus. Bull Creek’s East Course was designed by Lee and Ward Northrup in 1972. Maple Ridge was co-designed by 1987 Master’s Champion Larry Mize, a Columbus resident, with help from Mike Young, designer and owner of the Fields in LaGrange, which hosted last year’s Class 4A championships.
Arrowhead Pointe Golf Course in Elberton will host the Class A-Division I boys and girls to determine the champions. Arrowhead was designed by Robert C. Walker and opened in 2001.
Bartram Trail in Evans will play host to the Class A Division II boys and girls championships and was designed by Richard Robbins in 2005. In Class 1A-3A Private, Twin City Country Club in Tennille will be the host club. Twin City was designed by local companies and built in 1928.
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