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Georgia Field Trials (Georgia Amateur Celebration)
Waynesboro, GA · Sports
- When
- February 12, 2027
- Where
- DiLane Plantation Wildlife Management Area · Waynesboro · GA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Waynesboro has been known as the Bird Dog Capital of the World since 1946, hosting Georgia Field Trials since the early 1900s. Top pointing breed dogs and handlers compete at DiLane Plantation each season, judged by the national field trial community.
The history within reach
Waynesboro has been known as the Bird Dog Capital of the World since 1946, hosting Georgia Field Trials since the early 1900s.
One of the Southeast's larger arts festivals, this three day September event fills the Augusta Exchange Club Fairgrounds with juried visual art, international food booths, and music on multiple stages.
James Brown grew up poor in Augusta, shining shoes and dancing for change on Ninth Street, and the city he left came to define him: he kept an office here, gave out turkeys and toys every year, and the arena and a Broad Street statue carry his name.
Bobby Jones built his retirement course on an old nursery in 1933 and the tournament that followed became the only major played on the same ground every year, which is why its azaleas and its pond carry more memory than most stadiums.
Eleven years after his last major, four back surgeries in, he walked up the eighteenth at Augusta to a roar people compared to a stadium's.