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Considering it’s early spring this fine little tract is in good shape. Even the greens were very puttable. For a hot deal price this course is good value. Only condition concern would be an abundance of poana grass around the greens. Staff was very friendly. Good place to enjoy a round.

This is a fun challenging layout cut out of the wilderness as the name says. Everything including the way you are treated is top notch. It has a good diversity of hole design as well. You can choose just how much risk you want to bear from an array of tee boxes. Best course around by far.

Had an excellent playing experience at this good course. Course is challenging enough for any skill level with undulating greens and fairways. Staff could not be more welcoming. Fine place to work on your game and enjoy golf.

Very good municipal course run by excellent people. Good driving hole challenges with interesting topography. Good enough for skilled players and beginners alike.

This is an excellent presentation of golf on very undulating tract of land with great views of countryside.

This little gem has picturesque rolling landscapes and perfect bent grass greens. Got me hooked.

Cherokee Ridge has seen numerous improvements in course conditions in the past 18 months or so. The new greens are incredible now. The fairways are thicker even with scarce rain this summer. And thank God or someone on the new management staff flipped the nines back correctly. As I write this a trackhoe was working on number 2 s bunkers. I hope he continues on through the rest of the course as many are gravel laden.

Beautiful views on very good layout with perfect bentgrass greens. Only negative would be silly placement of pond blocking fairway on number 2. It would be a beautiful playable elevation challenge type hole without the pond coming out so prominately.

This is a beautiful tract that finally has great greens. But it is in too small an area to ever go totally private unless somebody takes a huge monetary loss each year. So now they have jacked up the regular rates so high it will not get sufficient public patronage either. If they got the rates somewhere below 50 the parking lot would have a multitude of cars with tags from several outlying counties. So, I guess we play it once a year on hotdeals until the nice wealthy man spends the amount of money he is willing to so it stays open. Best bet is to play this hidden gem soon.

God made the land and Arnold Palmer gently laid a beautiful stern but totally fair test of golf on this property. Greens are perfect bentgrass. Fairways are healthy zoysia. The rough is almost totally some expertly trimmed wide blade grass. It is not a tangled mixed breed mess I have encountered on two other courses in this area. It is penal as it should be. However you have a fair chance to find your pro v and recover or make bogey. The folks entrusted to present this property are doing their job impeccably . And at a great price I might just add. So bring a modest amount of talent, choose the appropriate tee box and enjoy. Lastly, there are a number of holes where you can choose the correct smaller club or in the spirit of Arnie you can challenge the hole and land that drive you will always remember. Thanks Arnie!!

This is a beautiful tract everyone should play at least once if in the area. A little bit of improvement construction work going on and some tee boxes need work. Green are perfectly rolling and fairways are nice zoysia . Beware of the mixed breed rough that I was told is always cut quite high. That probably is a welcome challenge for an elite ballstriker. Not so good for the 90% rest of us. It’s a real shame because this great layout with evenly cut modest height rough would be enough challenge in that it has so many other features going for it . Anyway, the views starting the round on 1, going down 17, and climbing back uphill to finish 18 with the clubhouse background are worth the price of admission alone. So I guess the locals just bring plenty of cheap balls and go. Maybe someday the owner will figure how many folks play once and done and cut his rough to a level that makes practical business sense.

Beautiful tract of land and good layout. It has enough elevation change and blind shots to keep you on your toes while navigating some of the narrowest fairways found anywhere. Fairways are nice zoysia grass but the rough from which I played often is a tall mixture of everything. It has rained often recently so I figure they are usually cut somewhat lower. This was my opening round in St Lois area. I usually break 80 on most tracts by hitting the appropriate clubs on each length of hole; however, I think it would be tough on this tract . Basically, only the very best ball strikers will score well here. Many folks I figure just bomb driver throw down another ball and enjoy the beauty of the place. Almost forgot to mention that the par threes are all top notch . I bet this nice tract would be an awesome money maker with greatly reduced rough in that it would be fun for ever skill level. Greens were plenty good and fast with fair undulation. Also super nice folks in clubhouse.

Beautiful mountain views abound on this impeccably presented layout. Bring your a game or just enjoy the course anyway. New greens are just going to get better this spring.

Hardheaded owner needs to accept bent grass greens do not live very long in this area. He would have all the business this otherwise well maintained fun tract could handle with one of the new hybrid version Bermuda greens..

Very well maintained solid layout with perfect greens every time you show up.. Only issue would be where do I aim my tee ball on one. Two huge trees and huge bunker block the fairway. If you move up a tee box and blast driver over bunker you have short iron to a par five.. So you go from extreme of being blocked out from one tee box to too short shot from more forward tee box . Needs fixed one way or another.

Very straightforward fun golf layout with the best conditioned greens second to none anywhere.

Course was in excellent shape. They have trimmed the new greens so they roll very well. The heat is starting to hurt the tender new greens but the staff is working hard to keep them sprinkled. Just a good fun course to play.

Great views on this well maintained mountain course with exceptional people running the facility. Don’t know what else you could ask for except to bring your A game. This layout will not reward anything less but you will have a great time anyway on this excellent tract. Just stay below the pin on most greens.

Very good test of golf with scenic elevation changes. Only complaint would be that somebody is ordering the green areas to be soaked. Muddy beyond the greens and greens so satiated footsteps made indentions.

This is a beautiful fair test of golf. I knowingly played the punched greens; they were healthy and will be perfect in three weeks. Only very real fault is somebody flipped the nines the wrong way. One use to be a very fair get started hole and then as you eased into the round you started to think about the tight drive coming on ten and playing the more scenic back nine with waterfall holes.