Barrington Hall Golf Club

Barrington Hall Golf Club in Macon was designed by Tom Clark and opened in 2010 as a par-72 layout measuring 7,062 yards in Bibb County. Clark, known for his work with the Arnold Palmer Design Company, created a modern Georgia Piedmont course with strategic water features and bold green complexes through the rolling terrain of middle Georgia.

Barrington Hall Golf Club in Macon, Georgia opened in 1992 as a public-access daily-fee course designed by Tom Clark, a golf course architect who produced a number of courses across Georgia and the southeastern United States during the late 1980s and 1990s. The course measures 7,062 yards from the championship tees to a par of 72, with bentgrass greens that provide putting surfaces of a quality more typically associated with private clubs than daily-fee venues. Clark's design at Barrington Hall takes advantage of the rolling terrain of the Bibb County area, which sits in the transition zone between Georgia's coastal plain to the south and the piedmont hills to the north.

This geographic positioning gives the Macon area topographic variety that Clark used to create a course with genuine elevation change — producing tee shots and approach shots from varied elevations that give Barrington Hall a character above its public-access price point. Barrington Hall has been described by visitors as possessing the appearance and conditioning of a private club while operating as a public-access facility. The bentgrass greens, which require more intensive maintenance than the Bermuda grass greens typical of most Southeast public courses, reflect a commitment to conditioning standards that distinguishes the club in the central Georgia public golf market.

Macon, the county seat of Bibb County and one of Georgia's largest cities, is located in the geographic center of the state at the intersection of several major transportation corridors. The city's history as a music and arts center — Macon is closely associated with the Allman Brothers Band and Little Richard, among other musical figures — gives it a cultural identity that extends well beyond its size. Barrington Hall serves the Macon area golf community as one of the more substantive public-access courses in the region, providing a 7,062-yard championship test at accessible daily rates.

Tom Clark's design career, while less publicly prominent than those of national architects, produced a number of well-regarded public and semi-private courses across Georgia during the 1990s. Barrington Hall represents one of his more substantial commissions — a full-length championship layout designed to the conditioning and maintenance standards of a club a tier above its market positioning.