Winding Creek Golf Club

This is a well maintained, challenging, interesting mountain course, priced very fairly for the value. A short drive from Winston Salem, and well worth the trip. Fairways and greens were in excellent shape, lots of great holes. Highly recommended!

Had an 11:02 tee time and teed of at 11:35. Pace of of play was terrible. Layout of course wasn’t great. Tee boxes were dirt. Just overall not a good course. May have been better if greens weren’t aerated either.

I played on a Saturday on a beautiful and warm late autumn day. Clubhouse staff were very friendly and informative, and the greens fees included a small, helpful booklet with the course layout and a short but well-written summary of each hole. It had the best yardage layout I have ever seen - no GPS needed!

I am glad that I had something to read, because the pace of play was VERY SLOW today and I wonder if they normally have rangers/marshals on the weekend but did not have them given how late in the year I was playing. It definitely would have helped.

The course is interesting and a bit odd, with two blind tee shots on the 1st 2 holes. And the 6th has a blind approach shot! The opening and parallel finishing fairways are very wide and have a links-type feel, with multiple dry bunkers. There is indeed a winding creek that plays nicely into several holes, but the creek itself needed some attention - there were lots of plastic bags, bottles, and other junk up and down the banks, and I even saw a plastic security tag (the kinds that are attached to expensive clothes at the department stores) stuck in the bank at one of the river crossings. To be fair, we've have some significant flooding with the fall storms, and I am sure that this played a part. But the creek, which should have been a striking feature and focal point for this course, was more of wobegone eyesore. If cleaned up, it would be very nice.

This course has lots of sloping fairways and the greens were in fantastic condition.

There is plenty of variety and some very fun par 3s (elevation change on the 8th and a lake carry on 16th). There is a gigantic broadcast/cell phone tower that dominates the views back towards the clubhouse, but there are plenty of vistas that do not include it. One side of the course runs parallel to the interstate, but aside from that, it is quite quiet. The biggest problem was clearly the pace of play It did not seem worth the 30 minute drive to Thomasville. Perhaps it would have been more fun during the week, with a brisker pace of play. The pace did pick up at the turn as one of the groups ahead only played 9 holes. I did not see any rangers but since the 10th tee was open, I kept moving. I did not use the clubhouse, but it seemed clean, and the pro shop looked well stocked. And the booklet they provided was very thoughtful and well put together.