Atlanta is where the PGA Tour season ends, but East Lake Golf Club is still figuring out exactly what it wants to be.
That sounds strange for a golf course with more than a century of history, yet the version of East Lake awaiting the 30 players at this week’s TOUR Championship continues to evolve following Andrew Green’s sweeping 2023-24 renovation. The major construction is finished, but the refinement is not.
For the 2026 TOUR Championship, director of agronomy Charlie Aubry and his team are preparing a 7,440-yard, par-70 golf course that includes another reduction of fairway at the 17th hole and expanded closely mown Prizm zoysiagrass around the greens at Nos. 3, 7, 12, 15 and 17…