Lake Junaluska Golf Course

I played this course 9 years it’s come a long way kudos to superintendent

Need Ranger to regulate pace of play. Quit after 9 holes because course was so backed up and play so slow.

Very narrow course, really challenging at times, par 5s are fun because they are reachable in 2 for an average player. Greens were in excellent shape this round

My wife and I trying different courses in the Asheville/Greenville, SC area. We went here on a cold day and received an equally cold reception from the woman in the pro shop who checked us in. Without saying hello or welcome, she slaps a scorecard down in front and circles the holes that we are allowed to play that day. (1-5, 7-9 & 18). No apologies or explanation and since we had prepaid, they already had our money. She handed me a key and pointed to some carts parked outside. We played and had a pretty decent time, there were only a few other groups on the course. The fairways were in decent shape as were the greens. I cold tell that if there are a lot of players on the course, the chances of being hit by a stray ball are pretty high. Looking around there appeared to be no place to have a coffee or a drink or to just sit around in the clubhouse. The whole vibe on the course was that the employees in the pro shop thought they were doing us a favour just by talking to us. My wife hit a ball into a creek and an employee helped her fish it out so kudos to that gentleman. Oh and the capper was that I turned the cart in and lost a thermos we had brought. I admit, it may have fallen out which would have been my fault.But, it was the perfect capper to a downer of a day.

Nice course, well maintained. Could use a bit of fairway repair on 2 holes, may have been related to excess rain this year.

Lack of asphalt cart

Trails really makes it a total mini

The bad: We had a conference in Cherokee and decided to play a round on the way out. Thursday afternoon, figured we would be able to get through a round in 3-4 hours. When we finished #4 there were 4 groups waiting to tee off on #5. We ended up giving up at 2.5 hours in on #8 as we both had 3+ to drive.

The good: course was beautiful, great scenery. It’s a short course but tight fairways and approaches with lots of trees, firm greens, and severe slopes around the greens.

We'd had a lot of rain leading up to my playing so the course was soggy and overgrown. A week or so of sunshine will help.

As with any Golfnow experience these days it was painfully slow. 1pm time on a Sunday should be quicker than 5hrs ... but it's not. Not sure if we have collectively become worse golfers, or just more people playing jams up the courses.... but its awful. If you are reading this please, please, please do not spend 4mins lining up your double bogey putt every hole. Give it a roll and move on.

This is a great layout and could be a super course. BUT it needs Grooming. The greens a grainy and inconsistent. If someone took a blowers to get the excess grass and leaves off them it would be an improvement. Rough is so think you lose your balls in them which further slows play. Not sure why there’s no food but it would be a great place to have a beer and get a bite to eat.