East Lake is the course Bobby Jones grew up on. His childhood home sat within a hundred yards of the 13th tee, and by the time he won the Grand Slam in 1930 he'd been walking those fairways for two decades. After his death the club went the way of the surrounding neighborhood — decline through the '70s, near-abandonment by the '80s. Tom Cousins, the Atlanta developer, bought it in 1993 as the anchor of a wider urban revival project and brought in Rees Jones to put it back together. What Jones did at East Lake is considered the cleanest restoration in American golf — a faithful return to Donald Ross's 1913 routing, with the fairways recut to their original lines and the greens rebuilt to their original contours. The Tour Championship moved here in 2004 and never left. The foundation Cousins built — schools, mixed-income housing, a charter network — has reshaped six blocks of East Atlanta around it. The course is the centerpiece, but the project is the point.