Bobby Jones drives a three-wheeled golf cart with Elivera Doud, the mother of former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, in the 1950s at Augusta National Golf Club. Photo: Augusta National via Getty Images Editor's note: This story on metro Augusta, Georgia, golf car makers, which originally ran on April 6, 2022, is the third in a series of special GGP/Biz pieces during the week of the PGA Show in Orlando, Florida. Detroit became the automotive capital of North America when the Big Three automakers – Ford, General Motors and Chrysler – settled in the industrial heartland to create the Motor City. Augusta, Georgia, had its own Big Three cement its global reputation as a golf town, but the Masters city is also the “Motown” of the golf car industry with E-Z-Go and Club Car calling the metro Augusta area home. E-Z-Go and Club Car – only 14 miles apart in neighboring counties – manufacture more than 80 percent of golf cars in the world, while the Yamaha plant not far down the road in Newnan, Georgia, takes up most of the remaining percentage. Jus...