Echelon Golf Club

Echelon Golf Club in Alpharetta is one of metro Atlanta's most architecturally-pedigreed public-access rounds, a Rees Jones design (with Steve Weisser co-credit) that opened in 2006 as the centerpiece of an upscale golf community in the foothills of North Georgia. The course originally opened as the private Georgia Tech Club before converting to its current semi-private / daily-fee access model. Echelon is a broad-shouldered, beautiful, and formidable test that wanders over 600 acres of rolling hills, providing striking elevation changes and panoramic views, most notably on the back nine. The 18-hole course plays 7,558 yards from the championship tees to a par of 72 on bent-grass greens and TifSport fairways. That tipped-out yardage is genuinely championship-long and places Echelon among Atlanta's most demanding public tests alongside TPC Sugarloaf's limited public windows and Lake Karrick. Rees Jones is one of American golf's top-tier architects (US Open renovations at Bethpage Black, Torrey Pines, Pinehurst No. 2 among others), and Echelon is one of his Georgia-signature works. For the metro Atlanta trip visitor, Echelon is the architectural-pedigree championship round of the north suburbs, paired naturally with Bear's Best Atlanta (Jack Nicklaus, 2002 replica-holes concept) and Stone Mountain (Jones Sr. Stonemont + LaFoy Lakemont) for a three-round Atlanta package.