Preserving the landscape architecture and cultural history of golf in the City of Rome, Georgia.
Golf has been played on the site of Rome’s Historic Coosa Country Club Golf Course since the late 1800s
Photo: Golfers shown in front of the Pennington home at what was then known as Coosa Farms.
Golf clubs were sold in downtown Rome in the early 1900s
Photo: The Nixon brothers, who were a part of the Pennington family, sold golf clubs at their hardware store on Broad Street.
Rome was known as a golf destination in 1917
Image: Women golfers were embracing the sport, and there were already lady members of the Coosa Country Club at the time.
George Cobb began work on the Coosa Country Club course in 1960 and continued enhancing it’s appeal for all levels of social and competitive golf. His last redesign in 1970 is still intact today after over 50 years.
About George Cobb. . .
Landscape Architect & Golf Course Designer of the Coosa Country Club Golf Course in Rome, Georgia - listed on the National Historic Registry in 2021
Born in Savannah, GA on July 2, 1914
Educated at University of GA in Landscape Architecture - Graduated 1937
Landscape Architect for National Parks Service Until 1941
Served in the Marine Corp and Began Designing Therapeutic Golf Courses for Injured G.I.s from 1941-1947
Designed Over 120 Golf Courses in His Career Many Courses Were Collaborations with Bobby Jones, and 22 Courses are in Georgia
George Cobb also designed the Augusta National Par 3 Course
Photo: Map of the course, also a Parkland Style, established in 1958 and also still intact today.
“I cannot help remembering with some amusement the first time I played your course back in 1916. The course was then nine holes, and all the putting greens were encircled with barbed wire to keep the cows off.”
— Bobby Jones, reminiscing about the pre-Cobb course in Historic Downtown Rome, GA
Quoted the same year he won the Georgia State Amateur Championship and his first National Amateur Championship.