Charlie Yates Golf Course

{{Short description|Golf course in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.}}

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| name = Charlie Yates Golf Course

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| location = Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

| coordinates = {{coord|33.743005|-84.315685|region:US-GA|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| establishment = 1930, 1998

| type = Public

| holes = 9

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| website = {{URL|http://www.charlieyatesgolfcourse.com/}}

| course1 = Charlie Yates Golf Course

| designer1 = Rees Jones

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In 1998 East Lake Golf Club's No. 2 golf course was transformed into the Charlie Yates Golf Course, a 9-hole "executive" public course that also provides golf education to children living in the city of Atlanta.{{Cite web |url=http://www.charlieyatesgolfcourse.com/aboutus/# |title=About Us | Charlie Yates Golf Course |access-date=2016-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151020060207/http://www.charlieyatesgolfcourse.com/aboutus/# |archive-date=2015-10-20 |url-status=dead }} The course was rated one of the top 10 short range courses in America by Golf Range Magazine and all profits from the course go to benefit the East Lake Foundation.{{Cite web |url=http://eastlakefoundation.org/east-lake-partners# |title=East Lake Partners | Community Redevelopment | Atlanta, Georgia | East Lake Foundation |access-date=2016-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402072146/http://eastlakefoundation.org/east-lake-partners# |archive-date=2016-04-02 |url-status=dead }}

Charlie Yates was an East Lake golfer who won the British Amateur in 1938. Charlie grew up on Second Avenue, the street which separated East Lake's main course from its No. 2 course. His boyhood hero was Bobby Jones whom he knew and played with on the course at East Lake.