If you’re ever watched the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club, you’ve no doubt seen and heard about Rae’s Creek.
Rae’s Creek begins underground amid subterranean rock northwest of Augusta and flows under Berckmans Road, through a forest and into Augusta National Golf Club property. The creek flows west to east, going some 10 miles in total before ending at Lake Olmstead.
It is named after John Rae, an Irish settler who settled Augusta, Georgia, in 1734. He was a cattle farmer who had a trading post and a ferry service on the Savannah River. Rae became a politician and came to own some 8,000 acres of land…