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Above the Cup - Dr. J's Heritage Golf Club - Tucker, GA


The multicultural golfing community found cause for celebration in December 2006 when hardwood luminary, Julius Irving, purchased the Heritage Golf Club in Tucker, Georgia. In the three years since, Dr. J has invested a tremendous amount of capital and creativity into making the 27-hole, semi-private course into an emerging powerhouse.

The outcome of Dr. J’s hard work was on display on December 17, 2008, when the freshly revamped Heritage Golf Club held it’s official ribbon cutting ceremony. A cavalcade of celebrities, professional athletes and local men and women of distinction gathered at Heritage’s 16,000 square foot clubhouse to participate in the festivities. Given the club’s proximity to downtown Atlanta, a mere 15-minute drive, star-studded crowds such as these will in all likelihood become a fixture at Heritage. Indeed, the likes of Michael Jordan, Charles Oakley and Alonzo Mourning have already taken to the links at Dr. J’s new playground. 

While smiles were abundant at the ribbon cutting ceremony, Heritage’s course is not to be taken lightly. The course plays 6, 903 yards from the tips (slope rating 145) and was designed around a 20-acre lake that makes play perilous for five holes. The interplay of Zoysia rough and multi-tired Bent-grass greens with narrow fairways and 96 bunkers leaves little room for error—but lots of room for excitement.

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