Atlanta Athletic Club Site of 2011 PGA Championship

Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, GA., is the site of the 2011 PGA Championship. This is the third PGA Championship played on AAC, and fourth big men.

AAC was also the home club of Bobby Jones. Wait ... was not Jones ' club East Lake Country Club? Then why Atlanta Athletic Club claim to be "home club of the legendary golfer Robert Tyre" Bobby "Jones Jr." on its website? Both statements cannot be correct, right?

Actually, they are. Atlanta Athletic Club and East Lake Golf Club (home of the Tour Championship) can claim Jones legacy, because once-at-a-time they were the same.

AAC's original location was in Downtown Atlanta, and the club golf course was East Lake Country Club-where Jones was a member. In the middle of the 1960s moved AAC North of Atlanta to what is today the city of Johns Creek, building a new course. The old course was East Lake Golf Club, no longer connected to AAC, and later the site of the Tour Championship. So today, AAC and East Lake accurately call their heritage as home to Jones, although Jones never actually played golf at the current AAC site.

Who won the previous PGAs on AAC?

2001 PGA Championship: David Toms defeated Phil Mickelson by a stroke after successfully making par from the rough on the final hole, despite until short of water on the par-4. 1981 PGA Championship: Georgia native Larry Nelson was the popular "domicile" winner, Fuzzy Zoeller beat by four. Jerry Pate won the 1976 U.s. Open at Atlanta Athletic Club.

What the great champions of AAC's have in common? All three are southerners: Nelson and Pate are Georgians; Toms is from Louisiana. Would be a benefit as from the South at the games in Atlanta, a k a "Hotlanta"? Probably just a coincidence.

And how about that for the week? The weather channel prediction for Johns Creek currently high temperatures around predicts 90F (32 C). Given how hot been much of the USA in the summer of 2011, which are not entirely bad seems (where I am consistently been above 100F for a large part of the summer), but much depends on the humidity.

Atlanta Athletic Club is also the site of a U.s. women's Open (1990, won by Betsy King) and on his previous East Lake location-the 1963 Ryder Cup. That Ryder Cup is the one who gave the expression, "Nice putt, Alice!" to the Gulf.

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