There are six major golf clubs around Lake Lanier.
- Lake Lanier Islands has two courses: Emerald Point and Pine Isle.
- Cumming has one course on the south end of the lake: Lanier Golf.
- Dawsonville on the west side of the lake, along the 400 highway, has the Chestatee Golf Club.
- Gainesville on the east side of the lake, along Highway 985, has the Chattahoochee Golf Club and Chicopee Woods.