Cherokee Run Golf Club

Cherokee Run Golf Club in Conyers is one of metro Atlanta's most historically significant Arnold Palmer-signature public rounds, designed by Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay of the Arnold Palmer Design Group, opened in 1995 as the golf anchor of the Georgia International Horse Park. The Horse Park hosted the equestrian and mountain-bike events during the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics, which gives Cherokee Run a direct connection to Olympic history that no other Atlanta public course can claim. The site's deeper history is genuinely remarkable: occupied for centuries by the Cherokee Indians, dozens of arrowheads were found in the Georgian red clay as the golf course was being built. That archaeological layering is written into the course name and gives Cherokee Run a cultural-historical texture unusual for a suburban Atlanta public track. Palmer and Seay's routing moves through granite outcroppings, native wetlands, and dense hardwood forests, with towering trees lining fairways and steep inclines providing fast, undulating greens characteristic of Palmer's Atlanta-metro design voice. Cherokee Run has maintained its reputation as a top-rated facility in the Atlanta area since its 1995 opening. For the metro Atlanta trip visitor, Cherokee Run is the Olympic-history + Palmer-pedigree public round east of the city, paired naturally with Stone Mountain (Jones Sr. Stonemont + LaFoy Lakemont), Bear's Best (Nicklaus 2002), and Cobblestone (Ken Dye 1993) for a four-round Atlanta public package.