Bobby Jones Links adds recently renovated Atlanta course to portfolio

Bobby Jones Links was selected to manage John A. White Golf Course in Atlanta, Georgia. The partnership marks the company’s first club management addition of 2023 and its eighth property in Georgia.

“We are delighted for the opportunity to help improve this historic public course,” Bobby Jones Links CEO Whitney Crouse said. “Our initial focus will be on finishing the capital improvements that began in 2022, developing a robust marketing plan and providing the staff with Bobby Jones Links’ multitude of management tools, systems and resources, Jones University training and procurement savings.”

The renovated John A. White Golf Course reopened August 19, 2022, after the first phase of improvements, including new greens and bunkers, and the construction of a new maintenance building sponsored by the City of Atlanta and Atlanta Fulton County Recreation Authority (AFCRA). More enhancements are still to come, according to AFCRA executive director Kerry Stewart.

“We are thrilled to be working with Bobby Jones Links to help us continue the improvements at John A. White,” Stewart said. “Over the past three years, the City of Atlanta and AFCRA have partnered to invest more than $1.8 million in the golf course and driving range. Another $800,000 in capital improvements is slated for 2023, including repairs to the cart paths, additional tree pruning, enhanced landscaping and signage, a driving range net extension, and drainage and irrigation work. The long-term goal is to continue making investments, enhance the customer experience, improve its management, and make a big difference for our community, customers and for kids in First Tee-Metro Atlanta’s youth development program.”

John A. White is a regulation 9-hole, par-35 course that is described as fun, fair and challenging. Originally built in 1929, it was first renovated in 1999 by Billy Fuller and Bob Cupp. Located about seven miles from downtown Atlanta, it is home to First Tee-Metro Atlanta.