River Ridge Golf Club

Greens were sanded so they discounted the round. Understand they will be punched soon.

Otherwise course in good shape.

I fully understand that public courses will have a higher than normal pace of play.

We showed up 20 minutes prior to our tee time and were planning on hitting a few balls on the range before our round. But, we were told to go to the 1st tee 10 minutes before our scheduled time and were told we could either hit balls on the range or “they wouldn’t know when they could get us out there” if we didn’t go out 10 mins before our time.

We opted to go early to get out and play. On every single tee box we waited ~10 minutes to hit. Some holes there were 4 different groups on the hole whether they were on the green, in the fairway, on the tee, or waiting behind the group on the tee. We ended our round 52 minutes behind pace according to the screen on our cart.

It is a great course with a great range and a fun course to play. It is very frustrating to have a course push out as many people as possible without paying attention to pace of play. It wouldn’t be an issue if we weren’t asked to go sooner than our tee time at the risk of “losing our place in line” to play.

Again, fantastic course, staff, grill, and amenities. But if you are going to raise the prices of the round, people shouldn’t be spending 5 hours and 15 minutes on a course.

Lucky enough to get the first tee-time this week. We had an eclectic foursome but all golfers that liked to play with purpose. Check-in and warm up were smooth as usual. The course is in generally excellent shape, with a few worn areas on fairway edges and around a couple of greens but overall does not detract from the golf experience. Great layout and challenging enough for all levels of golfer (might be a little easy for the PGA). While the amenities are adequate, service levels and staff friendliness are excellent. Overall an excellent golf course and a very good value.

Fairways are excellent. Greens are a nice speed. Could use more sand in the bunkers.

Great, fair, fun layout.

I really enjoyed playing here. Course was in nice shape and the staff is great. Try it out for yourself.

Enjoyed the layout and the greens were in great shape. The slope was consistent from hole to hole.

Course was in great condition. There are numerous tee options. I played the whites, and the layout was excellent from these tees. Had to hit into fairways, but the site lines made it very easy to see where trouble would occur. Fairways, greens, tee boxes and rough were all good but not over-the-top challenging.

I want to give a fair and honest review of this course, because it deserves it after I played on Friday. I had seen previous reviews that all pointed to this being a course in excellent shape, for great value. I decided that my wife and I would try it out to kick off our anniversary weekend (she likes to ride, while I golf)

I'll start with the bad:

1st- There is a yard sign out front that has written "HELP WANTED COURSE MAINTENANCE" in sharpie...A pretty ominous sign...

2nd- Check In- The pro (or clerk) at the desk was not friendly at all. He charged me the $80, and then never clearly stated that he paired me with 3 other folks (great guys), and then charged me an extra $20 because my wife was with me and I could not ride in a cart with a 3rd. He looked at me like I was stupid for asking why he was charging an additional $20. It cost me $100.00 to play this course as a single, which is about $65.00 more than it is worth, and was pretty clear that they are trying to pack out the course to make as much money as possible.

3rd- The range is bad. Really bad. Trying to find a flat lie that is not in a crater is nearly impossible.

4th- Pace of play is bad (it took over 5 hours to play) due to the details mentioned above

5th- The greens are really, really slow and very inconsistent and bumpy. You can hear you ball whizz on the green when you putt because it is not cut down consistently in areas.

6th- There are no bathrooms anywhere on the course for women. (I saw not a single woman out there other than my wife).

7th- If you haven't played the course before, you're hitting blind constantly and the course is poorly marked. Several perfect drives that landed in great spots ended up in hazards (ex. #10 fairway I hit a 240yd 3 wood to right center, which ran left across the entire fairway and into a hazard).

8th- We ordered food on #8 to be ready at the turn. It wasn't, we had to wait for no reason to get hot dogs. This held up play further.

9th- Some of the tee box setups intentionally directed you into the blind hazards, which really didn't make any sense because not many people are able to shape the ball on some of the setups as required.

The Good:

Aside from some of the blind shots, the course layout is actually really fun. It screams of a course that could be bought by someone who had money to put into it, and turn it into a really nice place to play- there are plenty of awesome visuals on the course.

Overall:

Really disappointed in the fact that they charged me $100 to play this public course in no more than fair condition. That is way overpriced, and leads me to not want to return to this place unless I hear that there is some investment into the grounds to be properly cared for.

Be very cautious about the advertisement that this is "#14 public course in NC". It is simply nowhere near that. If you can get on for $30, go for it.

Better than most public’s in the area. Decent track.

I like this course. But for the price they are charging now, it's not worth it. Decent layout and overall good conditions but not great. But for $80, the greens are bumpy and sparse in a few areas, there is no water on the course or beverage cart circulating the course, tee times are too close together and there is no ranger enforcing pace of play. We waited several minutes on every tee shot after around hole 7. Sparsly waited before that but it only got longer and longer waits each tee and started having to wait pretty much every shot except putts. What is the point of having a timer on your cart GPS if it doesn't matter when it sayd you're 25 minutes behind pace....? I mentioned the slow pace of play to two people after the round in the clubhouse and neither of them said anything or basically acknowledged I was speaking to them at all.

Moral of the story, this is a Hot Deal course. It's a $50-$60 course. The only time I will pay stock rate again will be in a pinch.

Nice variety of holes, lots of elevation changes, course was in good condition