Presidential at Hickory Valley Golf Club
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There are two 18-hole courses available at the Hickory Valley Golf Club, the Presidential and the Ambassador. The Presidential is the flagship course and it is also the longer and tougher of the two. The layout incorporates nine of the club's original 27 holes. The Presidential is nearly 300 yards longer than its sister course at 6,721 yards from the championship tees. The golf course has a nice balance of player-friendly features and challenging hazards. The wide fairways are quite forgiving, while the large, undulating greens are framed with bunkers. The signature hole is the par-4 second, which gently doglegs right, requiring a long and accurate tee shot. You're not out of trouble yet though, you'll still have to face the heavily bunkered green that also has a pond to the right.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 72 | 6721 yards | 72.6 | 136 |
| White | 72 | 6290 yards | 70.6 | 132 |
| Gold | 72 | 5613 yards | 67.7 | 118 |
| Red | 72 | 5269 yards | 70.9 | 125 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 72.4/133 | 353 | 412 | 370 | 538 | 162 | 488 | 165 | 413 | 379 | 3280 | 444 | 201 | 376 | 455 | 536 | 123 | 484 | 474 | 348 | 3441 | 6721 |
| White M: 70.5/129 | 340 | 387 | 354 | 521 | 137 | 465 | 141 | 390 | 362 | 3097 | 428 | 188 | 362 | 369 | 528 | 112 | 420 | 451 | 335 | 3193 | 6290 |
| Gold M: 67.5/116 | 314 | 358 | 314 | 494 | 118 | 430 | 111 | 368 | 321 | 2828 | 399 | 150 | 308 | 309 | 470 | 103 | 393 | 420 | 251 | 2803 | 5631 |
| Red W: 70.8/126 | 301 | 341 | 299 | 471 | 80 | 410 | 108 | 314 | 294 | 2618 | 366 | 135 | 303 | 307 | 460 | 97 | 357 | 378 | 248 | 2651 | 5269 |
| Handicap | 9 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 16 | 10 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 11 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 10 |
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Greens Need a Leaf Blowing
Or bring your own personal battery-operated leaf blower? Seriously, most greens were covered with twigs and other tree-generated debris making it tough to make a putt. Fairways had lots of bare spots for this time of year.There were rows of hay clumps from lawn clippings. .I like the course and I think the staff are wonderful, but conditions were under-whelming yesterday.
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Good course
Overall this was a very nice course with some difficult areas. Will definitely play again. The back 9 are very tight together so errant shots end up in other fairways. The tee boxes were good and the greens were very well taken care of. The greens also were fairly easy as far as elevation and tracks being relatively straight.
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Old School Golf
Great course design, challenging from all tee boxes, greens require a good approach shot.
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Terrible greens, worse pace of play
The staff was friendly, we teed of on time. All downhill from there.
The greens were in terrible shape, if I’m paying in season rates the course should reflect. There were still aeration holes and greens played about half of normal speed.
At the turn we were at nearly 3 hours! (2:45 actual). By the 11th whole it became clear there were 2 groups completely stopping play. Had to skip 2 holes to jump ahead and at least managed to finish our before sundown. There should have been a Marshall noticing no groups had finished in over an hour on a packed day.
Disappointed
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Decent for the dollar
The good: The staff are very friendly and accommodating. The Ambassador layout is fairly challenging with plenty of water and trees but is easy to manage. We were paired with another twosome and was expecting slow play as we had multiple groups ahead of us but was pleasantly surprised that past hole 2 there was no wait and had no one waiting on us.
The bad: the course needs some TLC. Some tee boxes are so hard you need a chisel to get a tee into the ground. The fairways were in pretty good shape, and the greens were tough to judge as they'd recently been aerated and sanded. I had to bring a towel to wipe my ball and putter on the green. A few greens needed more than sand to repair but they have improved since last year.
The great: the breakfast sandwiches you can pick up in the morning. Trust me.
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Thanks for the amazing review and for choosing Ambassador at Hickory Valley Golf Club. We hope to see you again soon!
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Great layout
Really liked the layout. Many doglegs alternating right and left. Course will be really nice once it greens up. Greens were small and rolled well off-season. Once the trees get leaves the challenge will increase. Looking forward to playing again in season.
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Poor communication
Did not notify me of course closure. Clubhouse attendant is clueless and/or did not want to help me.
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Bluebear
Winter rules and cart path only but very good challenging course.
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Presidential Course
Had a very enjoyable round even if I did not score as well as I normally do on this course. Temps were in the mid 60's even though it was the middle of February. The course was crowded but the pace of play was excellent. They really do a great job of maintaining the course and the staff is consistently friendly It was well worth the one-hour drive to play.
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First time at Hickory Valley
The course overall was a good time to play for the first time. I am hoping overall conditions are better during regular season as the putting greens were a little beat up with divots that no one fixed, the sand traps were not raked and had foot prints and ball shot marks, par 3’s around the ponds had a lot of goose poop. But the tee boxes and fair ways were in amazing shape even for Fall Golf. The club house staff were super friendly and even let me go out early because it was a slower day. The course was wide open for the most part until I caught up to two groups of 4 on the back 9 who were playing super slow. Outside of that I would definitely come back and play this course again as I only paid $33 for 18holes and a cart.
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