The very last event of the 2016-2017 season happens with the 30th Tour Championship and the 11th for the FedEx Cup at East Lake Golf Club in downtown Atlanta.
East Lake Golf Club was based in 1904 and it's far mostly recognized for being Bobby Jones? Home direction. Currently, it is the house of on the whole company memberships. It was originally designed by means of Donald Ross and then some re-designs and renovations have been headed up by using Rees Jones.
East Lake had turn out to be fairly of a forgotten course inside the 70?S and eighty?S as the encompassing location, as soon as referred to as ?Lil Nam? (as in Little Vietnam) changed into considered one of the maximum dangerous neighborhoods in the united states. When I lived in Atlanta, considered one of my buddies mentioned the time that he and his boss played East Lake in the course of that technology and had been robbed at gunpoint whilst gambling.
Eventually, the East Lake Foundation become started and it now not best revitalized the golf direction, but the surrounding area. Now the East Lake vicinity is maximum gentrified and has been one in every of neighborhoods in Atlanta that has been at the upward thrust in the past 15 years.
Personally, I?M no longer keen on the route. It?S very lengthy at 7,385 yards and best being a par-70. It?S huge open with shorter than average difficult with the intention to win there with a loss of driving ability. It features a whole lot of very tough, if no longer ridiculous Red Zone (a hundred seventy five-225 yards) pictures. Thankfully, they switched across the 9?S and the 18th hole is not a par-3. And the vintage 18th hollow was once a 235 backyard par-3 uphill. Overall, it?S now not a bad path, but I should in no way parent out why it changed into ranked a top-one hundred path in the international apart from the history it has with Bobby Jones.
This is a direction that stresses a variety of Red Zone pictures and Short Game shots which play off the hard of the Red Zone pictures.
Projected Winning Score: -eleven
3JACK?S FAVORITES
Jordan Spieth 500
Rickie Fowler 1,000
Jon Rahm 1,two hundred
Jason Day 1,200
3JACK?S DARK HORSE PICKS
Marc Leishman 1,800
Paul Casey 2,000
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