Mountain Ranch Golf Club at Fairfield Bay

We booked a "Hot Deal" with a tee time of 11 AM knowing that we would be playing in the heat of the day. We found the course to be in very good condition. However, if you get very far off the fairway, look out for rocks. This seems typical of the courses in this area. Guess you should just hit it straight :-) We enjoyed the course layout. It didn't have too many forced carries; it did have some significant elevation changes; and, the greens rolled quite nicely. This is a course that you can play often and still enjoy - enough of a challenge to keep you interested, but not too much of a challenge since there are plenty of tee boxes to choose from.

This previous “Best Arkansas Public Course” is still awesome. Tee to green the fairways are lush and well maintained. The bermuda greens were freshly mowed and rolled well. A recent heavy rain left water standing in all the bunkers. Other than bunkers that need $$ and work, I have nothing negative to say. Yes, it has aged some, and doesn’t look quite as fresh as it once did, but it is still a beautiful and interesting track and easily one of the best in Arkansas. As for value, Mountain Ranch and Tannenbaum (it’s little sister 30 minutes away) are a both a tremendous value and a great pair to play in the Greers Ferry Lake area.

Love this place. I try to play it as often as I can. Course is always in good shape and can't beat the friendly staff

Course was fun and worth the the price. It's a little rough in places but could be excellent if they had the money to put back into maintenance. It's a retirement community and not a resort so it's understandable that it just isn't feasible. The staff were excellent. The prices in the pro shop are great. The restaurant on site was great food as well.

Great little track.

A lot of blind t-shots with narrow fairways at times.

Friendly staff in the bar and halfway house.

A good test from the black tees.

The course was beautiful. The condition was just about perfect, with only a couple of dry spots on 1 or 2 greens, away from the pin. Speaking of greens, I don’t know that you’ll find trickier greens in the state. The fairways were cut excellently and it was clear where they were heading. I can’t wait to get back out there!

Greens needed work fairways could have been a lot better

We let 2 young adults play ahead of us on the first tee thinking they would have a foster pace then us and we were wrong. We had to wait up to 5 minutes on ever tee box. They seen they were back logging groups but never let us play through. Greens were in fairly good condition. Still water in many sand bunkers.

Can't say enough good things about this place. I love Mountain Ranch.