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Larry Guillory
Macon
2008-06-30
$31 (cart included), played on Saturday, June 2008 at 10am
We played at 10:00 a.m on a Saturday Morning. We were the last people to tee off that morning. No one pressed us even though we were the slowest foursome on the course. The worse thing about the course are the greens. They run at about a 3-5 on the stimpmeter. Horribly slow. They are bent grass greens and because it has been so hot they had to leave them uncut so they required super hard effort to make a putt. Mentally it was hard to make myself putt hard enough to reach the hole. The fairways were cut close and were extremely hard. It was hard to put a long tee into the ground on the tee box. This course is heavily treed with very narrow fairways. It pays to be straight if you play here. The front nine is the narrowest. It opens up enough for the high handicappers to use their drivers on the back nine. If you have a slice or hook, use only your three wood on the front nine. Out of bounds is not far from the fairways because of all of the houses. The shortest par four is 335 yds. It is the only one shorter than 340 yds. But the par 5's are not that long. Three of them are shorter than 500 yds. The teeth of the course is the par 4's.
Would travel: 20-30 Miles, Not Vacation Worthy
Bottom line: I would play again, Better than average course for the area
Difficulty, Layout, Price, Pace of Play, Clubhouse
Condition of Course, Ambiance, Houses on Course, Staff, Food/Bar Facilities
$31 (cart included), played on Saturday, June 2008 at 10am
We played at 10:00 a.m on a Saturday Morning. We were the last people to tee off that morning. No one pressed us even though we were the slowest foursome on the course. The worse thing about the course are the greens. They run at about a 3-5 on the stimpmeter. Horribly slow. They are bent grass greens and because it has been so hot they had to leave them uncut so they required super hard effort to make a putt. Mentally it was hard to make myself putt hard enough to reach the hole. The fairways were cut close and were extremely hard. It was hard to put a long tee into the ground on the tee box. This course is heavily treed with very narrow fairways. It pays to be straight if you play here. The front nine is the narrowest. It opens up enough for the high handicappers to use their drivers on the back nine. If you have a slice or hook, use only your three wood on the front nine. Out of bounds is not far from the fairways because of all of the houses. The shortest par four is 335 yds. It is the only one shorter than 340 yds. But the par 5's are not that long. Three of them are shorter than 500 yds. The teeth of the course is the par 4's.