Richmond County is Augusta, and Augusta means the Masters—golf’s most watched week, staged each April at Augusta National Golf Club. That private cathedral of azaleas and Amen Corner shapes the county’s entire golf identity, even for players who will never set foot inside the ropes. Tournament week turns the city into a global village of patrons, practice-round pilgrims, and locals who know which streets to avoid.
Year-round, Augusta Country Club, Forest Hills Golf Club, and other Richmond County courses carry the everyday game forward in the Masters’ long shadow. The sandy-soil, pine-framed character of the CSRA rewards a different kind of golf than North Georgia’s hills, and locals take quiet pride in living where golf history is not abstract—it blooms every spring on Magnolia Lane.