RyanF

Played Thursday afternoon and Saturday morning. The only real issue is the staff and their lack of caring. Both tee times include range balls. Thursday afternoon we show up and they say there are no range balls now because they had a group class this morning. So? Don't you have a machine to go pick them up? What does the class have to do with my tee time? Whatever, we blow it off and head out to the course.

Saturday morning we show up and now they "aren't giving out range balls because they have a tournament later". Again, what does this have to do with me and the promised range balls included in the tee time? It would be TOTALLY different if it listed the range as closed or the range balls for an extra fee.

I tell the young guy behind the counter that isn't acceptable and he needs to get whomever is in charge on the phone. He radios out and begrudgingly gets permission to get range balls for us but says NOTHING to me at all, just walks off to get them. Well, 25 minutes later and 5 minutes before our tee time they show up. Gee, thanks. We hit some balls to warm up and teed off late with as much consideration for our official tee time as the staff had for us (zero). Not a single staff person spoke to us one way or the other the rest of the day.

Course was fine. Not good, not bad. Staff made this a place to avoid. There were lots of potential ways to handle the situation and they picked just about the worst. If you aren't going to provide it, don't advertise it. If you do advertise it, don't get mad when people expect it. I put up with the sad excuse the first day, but the second time in a row? Pitiful excuse for a club.

First the bad: The driving range is small, mats only (at least on this day - a Saturday), no drivers allowed (250 max distance), and the range balls average or below average, plus. they were ALL GONE. Staff tried to accommodate by throwing together two mostly-full "small" buckets out of the 3 purchased. Nobody seemed to think this fell short of what should have occurred. Greens were not slow, but definitely not fast either. They seemed to roll true most of the time but occasionally had some hops and wobbles in putts due to what appeared to be sports still recovering from the last aeration.

The good: The pace of play was very good for a Saturday - our 4-some played in 4 hours 10 minutes. It was not until the last couple of holes where we had to wait just a minute on the group ahead of us. That is a nice pace for a weekend on an Atlanta-area course. Fairways were in pretty good shape - occasional spots of thin grass but nothing too bad. Only hit one bunker but the sand was good and all the traps I saw seemed to be well cared for. Overall it was a good experience. A little more time for the greens to heal and the fairways grass to fill in and the course will be in perfect shape.

The course is in pretty good shape. Most fairways and rough areas have grass coming in well for this time of year. Only a few thin spots. Greens are in very good shape and were running moderately quick. Enjoyable round with good course conditions at a good price.

It's been 4 years since I had played here and the course conditions have improved. Fairways were nice, greens were great. There ways some areas around the edges of holes that lacked grass or needed work, but all the fairways and greens were nice.

Pace of play started a little slow but picked up and we finished right on time. Staff was friendly and the rate was great for a weekend afternoon.

I enjoyed the round and was glad to see the course in such great shape. When I'm back in the area I'll be playing here again.