Druid Hills Golf Club

H.H. Barker designed the original Druid Hills Golf Club routing in 1912 on a piece of Atlanta, Georgia near-northeast suburban land — the founding membership included the family of Asa Candler (the Coca-Cola founder) and other early-twentieth-century Atlanta business leaders. The course is famous as the routing where Bobby Jones learned the game as a child — Jones grew up in the Druid Hills neighborhood and played his earliest competitive golf at the club. The original Barker routing has been redesigned multiple times since, with significant work through subsequent decades and continuing restoration that has preserved the institutional architectural framework.

The course plays around 6,500 yards par 71 from the back markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. The yardage is short by modern championship standards, but the routing's age and the institutional history give the course significance independent of contemporary architectural evaluation. The fairways play firm given the Atlanta clay-and-Piedmont subsoil. The mature deciduous canopy through the property has grown to championship-narrowing dimensions over the club's century-plus history.

Druid Hills Golf Club is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Atlanta business and professional families with multi-generation ties through the club's pre-World War I founding. The Bobby Jones childhood connection through Druid Hills is the institutional centerpiece, and the hospitality model is traditional country club.

Atlanta climate gives Druid Hills a playing season of March through November, with the firmest conditions in October. The course closes through brief winter cold snaps. The mature deciduous canopy through the property and the autumn color through October are part of the routing's seasonal photographic signature.