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Value
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4.1
Friendliness
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4.9
Amenities
2.3
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About

Holes 18
Type Semi-Private
Par 72
Length 6961 yards
Slope 139
Rating 74.2

Course Details

Year Built 1969
Fairways Bent Grass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Bill Watts (1969) Bill Bergin (2007)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discover Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Appropriate golf attire.

Available Facilities

Banquet Facilities

Accolades

Reviews

4.9
71 Reviews (71)
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4.0
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Previously Played

Scenic and fun

Great time. Beautiful. Well manicured fairways and bunkers. Fast greens. Will definitely play there again and again!

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 18
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great condition

The course was in great shape ! Beautiful vistas ! Greens were fast, but manageable. Would love to have some earlier tee times through golf now other than 2:30 in the afternoon. Would recommend.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 91
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
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Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

great mountain course

Course is in great shape - fast greens and lush fairways. Not much roll with all the recent rain.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Wet weather
Used cart

Great deal at the GolfNow price

Was able to get the golfnow deal for a Sunday foursome. We were staying in Sky Valley with a nice view of the 10th hole. The course was very busy, but it rained a few hours before our 1:50 tee time and it turned out to be a blessing, because we basically had the course to ourselves.
Course was in very good shape. The layout is a bit funky, lot of doglegs so shot shaping and being able to hit it in the right spot was key.
All in all a good experience.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Beautiful views

Fun golf course with lots of beautiful views. Lots of uphill approach to the greens. The greens can be a little tricky. Fun time. Would highly recommend
We were going to eat dinner in the club house because it said it was open but we never saw anyone come out to greet us. It looked like they may have been having a function in another room. So we left. But we heard the food was good.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 18
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

beautiful course.

Great course. Staff was friendly and knowledgeable about the course. This is a come back to place. Wife had a hole in one 15 island green. Loved it

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
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Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Sky valley

Played years ago before renovations. Totally beautiful course.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Best course in my area

I played here's several years ago.Didnt really know how good the course was then because I was just starting to play golf.Since then I have played most all the courses in my area.This is truly one of the best.......if not the best... Everything was spot on...course mowed&manicured ,the greens was awesome and the staff was very friendly.... I'm planning another outing to this course soon.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Best course in the area

The course was in excellent condition although it had experienced heavy rain two days before. The staff was friendly and helped me by starting us on the back nine to work around a larger local group. There are five sets of tees and so it is very enjoyable for all handicaps and ages.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 10
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

A scenic course and awesome layout.

My girlfriend and I had an incredible afternoon enjoying this wonderful course. I played the black tees and it was very challenging yet the red tees for my girlfriend were very playable as a new golfer. Views were incredible and although the course had absorbed a lot of rain water it was in incredible condition. Will go back there many times for sure!!!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Truly Beautiful Golf Course

Vacationing at the Dillard House, wanted to get a round of golf in. Remembering players by this course years ago, wanted to see if we could get a round in.

Checked GolfNow, and they had a tee time at 1:30pm available at a discounted rate. Rained heavy the night before, and was scheduled to rain at our tee time.

My wife and I went two hours early in hopes to get our round in early. We asked the pro shop attendant, and he said it was no problem. He was very friendly.

Turns out, we were the only people on the entire course, and that made it special for us. The views are so beautiful, almost to the point of distracting! We highly recommend this course. It is perfect mountain golf, and friendly to the average golfer... we will come back the next time we are in the area.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

A trip into the mountains not easily forgotten!

My friend and I were over for the Masters from Edinburgh, Scotland. We had been looking for courses that were around our base in Athens and Sky Valley popped up. Being from Scotland we're well used to mountains but the drive up was fantastic. We got there first thing and an army of greenkeepers were out preparing the course. The pro was very friendly and it wasn't long before we were off. We had asked him what the scenic, picturesque holes were and he pretty much said all of them. The greens had been Gradened only a few weeks before but they still ran very well and the presentation of the course was first class. We zipped round in the morning and played another 18 in the afternoon which was comparable for time, no issues there. The views were amazing and will stay with me for the rest of my days. We both loved the course and would love to come back during the season as we think it would be in phenomenal condition. Needless to say we cannot rate this course highly enough. It's a long but great great up into the mountains but well worthwhile. Would love to go back.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing

STUNNING

Took a chance driving up here based on a couple of reviews. We are so glad we did. This is one of the most scenic course I have ever played.

The layout of the course maximises the stunning terrain with some great elevated tee shots where you can watch your ball fly against the mountain backdrop. Tees and fairways were stunning and the greens were just about to fully recover from some heavy maintenance and still putted great.

We played 36 in one day and would love to have played more. The 14th hole and 15th holes are stunning but my favourite was the 8th.

Highly recommended.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 13
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 22
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great course. Great day.

This one of the best course layouts and conditions I've played. Highly recommended. When you hit an errant shot, just look at the rich scenery.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Day on a mountain course

A lovely drive through the mountains with great views. Course is situated just south of Franklin, NC in a nice piedmont in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Great views, streams, small water falls on many holes.
I played the white tees at about 6K yards.
#1 and #17 are funky blind dogleg right drives that require local knowledge for the correct line. The balance of the holes are rather straight forward with a "what you see is what you get" layout.
Greens had been arified and sanded a few weeks ago and putts were slow, but very playable.
Fairways are well conditioned but were very wet and plugged shots were often in the fairways.
Recommend a good range finder for distances to pin from fairways.

Drinking Water and bathrooms on course are non-existant, so "go" before going out and at the switch from the front to the back 9. Take a few bottles of water to hydrate.

It is a "shot maker's" course with placement of tee shots critical to providing second shot access to the greens. No forced carries for all but #17.

The course will be a treat for those who play when it has dried out and the greens are fully grown back in from maintenance. If the ground crew can speed up the greens they will present a good challenge.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Fair mountain course

You will use every club in your bag playing Sky Valley. You will experience a beautiful, fun and challenging course.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 24
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Nice in the Sky

Was a GREAT deal with Golfnow.com The weather was great sunny - the course was very green for this time of year. Greens worked on 2 weeks ago, but were NICE !
Driving range is short, about 185 yd. can't hit driver to warm up. BEST thing of all nowm is they cut down 4 of the big pine trees on the right side at hole #1 :-) so now you can take driver and hit it just to the left of the first big tree and be safely down the fairway! Love it ! Thank You, Sky Valley!

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 25+
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Great Highlands area golf

Cool people and very welcoming to me and three girls I came with. They had left-handed clubs for me to rent and accommodated me above and beyond.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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