johnjc72

Was staying in the area for a couple days, and kept passing by a beautiful course next to East Lake. Saw an 8am Hot Deal and had to jump on it. Gorgeous day, well manicured course, and the hacks ahead just gave us an excuse to hit a few more practice shots along the way. Very good test of most of the clubs in the bag, especially with the breeze. Bite-sized golf at its finest.

Legacy presents itself as a venue to work on your game, and it provides exactly that. A lot of people won't get to use their entire bag but there's chances to get creative if you move among the tee boxes. Greens were in pretty decent condition considering how much traffic they get, and the only issues were a few torn up tee boxes (and some that are ready for the same treatment) which I'm sure will look good in the future. Even on a busy Saturday my group got around in about 3 hours, so if you're not wanting your weekend round to be expensive or an all day affair, you can do a lot worse than this nice little track.

This is probably one of the nicer public tracks I've played in the Atlanta area. Excellent condition with the greens as perfect as can be for a twilight round; great value on a Hotdeal. But there are some very preventable issues that hold this place back from being worth the drive again.

Starter is a nice guy but sending out a single behind a twosome behind foursomes is baffling, especially with a twosome waiting on 1 tee while the single teed off. Not a single ranger anywhere either- add those up and throw in some Sunday hackers hitting multiple tee shots and you get a 5 hour round.

The pace wouldn't have felt as excruciating on a 90+ degree day if there had been water in ANY of the coolers that were conveniently placed on every other tee. Beverage cart came off 9 green as I was teeing off (3:50) and I never saw her again, so there weren't any options to stay hydrated nor was there any warning that this would be the case.

This course has the goods to be a destination public track. The superintendent clearly knows what they're doing. Golf staff needs to work a few things out.

This course has the skeleton to be the best public track in the Atlanta metro by a landslide. Lovely lakefront property, challenging layout, great variety among holes, true rolling putting surfaces. But there's flaws that made me very thankful that I didn't pay full price for the five hour round I played at Cobblestone today.

Your maintenance staff needs to get on the same page. If you're going to leave the grass so shaggy that half of the fairway shots become fliers and the rough can cover golf balls, maybe don't put the pins in tournament spots on a Saturday and roll the greens? I doubt even 10 percent of your traffic can actually play well in those conditions, while the vast majority are likely weekend warriors who already struggle to break 100. It's no wonder the round took so long- I was paired with brand new golfers, and we still had to wait on just about every full swing we took today.

There was an obvious regular waiting at the first tee for his time, and for some reason he felt the need to insult every member of my group as we teed off, even asking to see two of our handicap cards as we were playing the tips and saying he would "send us a flyover" if we played too slowly. Fortunately, we were two groups ahead of him, but if that's not the type of first impression you want to provide for your course, maybe your starter shouldn't be laughing at everything he says.

Your ranger also told me not to drive around in the rough while looking for my ball on the 14th hole. I would not have minded and happily obliged if this wasn't at the four hour mark into my round. No apology for the horrendous pace or anything or effort to address that, just very tone deaf.

I really want another crack at this course because it is just such a great track on paper, but that will be weighed heavily against the mediocre experience I had today. There's just too much high quality public golf around Atlanta to chance dealing with that again.

If you like to bomb the ball, this isn't the course for you. Fairways are very tight, and the rough is hungry for golf balls. This was made even harder with the range being closed. First timers will struggle with blind tee shots onto rock hard fairways, which can lead to lost balls even if you think you hit it perfect. Aside from the gimmicky layout of most of the holes, the most baffling/frustrating thing about this course was the flier lies. This would be okay if it was just in the rough, but even the fairways had this problem! Combined with greens that were, shall we say, less than receptive, approach shots felt like more of a chore than a challenge. However, the greens rolled true and the tee boxes were very nice. I'm sure the short-and-straight crowd would enjoy this course much more than I did.

On possibly the nicest day of the year, I found a deal on TeeOff for a morning round, and ended up playing with three regulars behind a fivesome of members who, to their credit, still got in under 4 hours. Despite being relatively short, the tips were a real challenge with lots of trees in the line of sight on tee shots. The course was in great shape, the greens rolled true even with sand, and the newly designed holes are a lot of fun. It may be helpful to re-measure some of the distances, as a few numbers on the card seemed a bit off (namely the par 3's as well as hole 17, which is a heck of a lot longer than 393!) Additionally, more yardage markers on the fairways and/or GPS in the carts would be very helpful. It was even more fun the second time around when I actually knew where I was going! Looking forward to playing again.

Even though they were just aerated, these are some of the nicest greens you'll find at this price point.

T o give an idea of how empty it was, I went off at 8:20 on a Friday by myself, played multiple balls, and was in my car by 10:30. Player-friendly layout with no hazards on the front and a few forced carries on the back, so a good place to work on your game. Lots of staff milling about the course, and on more than one occasion, someone actually drove out from behind me into the fairway while I was trying to hit my tee shot! One couldn't help but wonder what they were up to, because it certainly wasn't maintaining the greens! I knew going in that they had been punched a couple weeks ago and was hoping to see signs of recovery, but they were almost unplayable. Not sure if I'd play here again unless the greens are in much better shape.