Tanglewood Golf Club - Championship Course

The greens were terrible like putting on carpet in your living room. The traps need some sand put in them.

After avoiding Tanglewood for the past 2 years due to negative reviews concerning course condition, I finally decided to give it a try due to recent positive reviews.

What a treat!! Best golf course layout I've played in North Carolina. Tanglewood reminds me of the great private golf courses around San Francisco (Olympic Club, Lake Merced and San Francisco GC). Very challenging course, well bunkered, beautiful setting and good course conditions. Maybe the best part was it cost $22 to walk at 8am on a perfect day and felt like I had the course to myself. Will return as soon as I can.

Only warning would be bunkers need some work.

Great course for the money.

Signs are a little confusing. Which course and hole for 1 and 10 on both courses is very confusing. I noticed several golfers confused.

Was on Championship #10 and group came upon us and should have been on #1 Championship.

#10 for the Reynolds course is about 1 mile from club house and not at all clearly marked how to get there.

Leaves all over the green. Slow play and did not finish

Went on a Friday afternoon hot deal for $20. That was the best part. HOWEVER, my playing partner and I only played 14 holes, the last of which took a grand total of 28, yes, 28 minutes. One hole. 22 of those minutes were spent watching videos on our phones sitting in the fairway while a foursome playing captains choice, and a twosome following them also playing that format, goofed off and had no concern for anyone but themselves. A 4.5 hr round only allowed a twosome to play 14 holes. From the first tee we followed a group until the turn, which took 2.5 hours. Passed them on 10 only to find out we couldn't go anywhere bc apparently they were just one of 5 foursomes in the same group. Bottom line, NEVER ONCE SEEN A RANGER. Pathetic experience for such a good course. Reported our frustrations to no avail. As if they couldn't care less. Won't be back. Suggest you stay away if you don't have a full day. The organization of the facility is lackluster to say the least.

Played this the Championship course and think it is a really nice layout. Seemed like most of the elevation changes were uphill and require a club 10- 20 yards longer than the measured distance to the center. Greens are large.
With a little more attention to the greens and tees this can be a very good course.

Nice layout and overall good course to play / fairways in the best of shape / greens need work as there are some weeds that are growing on the greens / lots of bunkers, but sand traps lack consistency / tee boxes could be in better shape considering resources available to keep it up / course is labelled as "Championship", but right now I would put it closer to "amateurism".

Fairways were in great shape, the greens not so much... course looked good overall.

I have been playing this course for years and have never seen it in such terrible condition! Weeds in the greens. Weeds in the bunkers. No sand in the bunkers. No water in the ball washers. And, the list goes on and on... Yes, the weather is partially to blame but the sense of neglect is unmistakeable. For $25, it was an enjoyable afternoon. For the full rack rate? Forget it! C'mon Tanglewood -- you're better than this!

The slowest pace I've played in a very long time !!!

I enjoyed the golf course and the greens were excellent.

Tanglewood is a step back in time. Facilities look the same as they were when the likes of Trevino, Player and Palmer graced its presence. Course is a tight heavily bunkered layout. Most of the traps are red clay with pebbles and rocks littered throughout. Greens roll fairly true and are well contoured but by no means unfair. Public play has taken its toll on them but nothing above the norm. Fairways were sparse with grass and several places looked re-sodded. Overall would say it's a great course to experience due to legacy but not somewhere I would play more than once a year just to say I did. Too many other good tracks surrounding here.

1st time playing this course. Layout is excellent and very challenging. However, of the 90+ bunkers on the champions course, only about 15 of them had enough sand in them. attempting to play in most of the bunkers usually results in digging into some dirt or red mud. It also looked as if some of the bunkers had playground sand poured in them along with all of the rocks and pebbles on the playground. Greens are great and the fairways are in good condition as well. Will consider playing this course again in the fall but for the resources available to tanglewood park, the conditions are subpar and can't compete with the other nice public courses like forest oaks country club.

The greens on this course were recently punched and putting was difficult to control with such bouncy rolls!

Had a good time. very slow the course need ranger to keep up with slow play.

I came to Tanglewood with high expectations, but I am now extremely disappointed. I drove from just over 2 hours away to play a PGA caliber course but the condition of the course was absolutely horrible. Dead fairways and dead rough ran throughout the entirety of the course, maybe this was due to lack of rain. I would not recommend this course to anyone looking for a plush, better than average course. The only positive was the course layout, everything else was awful. You can spend the same amount of money and play a much nicer course in the Winston-Salem/ Greensboro area.

I got a 3:16 tee time, and teed off shortly after that. I played in a threesome, from the blue tees. The clubhouse staff didn't know who I was supposed to be paired up with, so I just picked a couple of other people and played with them. Pace of play was very good in the first 9, but in the second 9 a slow foursome got in front of us somehow and made play seem excruciatingly slow (we waited every single hole). The whole round took 5 hours... the front 9 was 2hrs10mins, and the second 9 was 2 hrs40mins. The course was in good shape, though the greens were still recovering from aeration which made putting unpredictable. The course is pretty long, though there are only 2 par 5's and it plays to a par 70 instead of 72.

The main thing I would note about the course is this: there are a lot of sandtraps! There are plenty of fairway traps and every green is heavily guarded by sand. It's a Bobby Jones course, and I've heard that he imagined the green as a castle that was guarded and you had to really attack it... You WILL be in the sand at some point (if not many) during the day.

Also, the greens are large with quite a bit of undulation and movement to them. I really liked the greens, except that they were still recovering from aeration. I look forward to playing it again when I get the chance. I shot 42 front, 42 on the back, my first time there. I'll do better next time. The 18th hole is amazing... just wait til you see the green... awe & fear inspiring! Can't wait to take my Dad to play there when he comes to visit next.

One extra note: take $2 cash, because the course is inside some kind of state park, and you have to pay a $2 entry fee. It's a big park with LOTS to do... (pool, volleyball, horseback riding, more).

I have played numerous courses in the Triad this Spring and only a handful have any fairways to speak of. Tanglewood, Forest Oaks, and Gillespie managed to save their bermuda fairways through either rye seeding in the winter or in Gillespie's case, not spraying their weeds (which was a stroke of genius). At least 3 other courses have lost about 35% of their fairways.

Decent course to play on but with the fairway and green conditions it was over priced. Lots of sand traps but were not well maintained.

fairways and sand traps in horrible condition. Course was recently aerated so greens were expected to not be in top condition. Traps full of rocks and sand had more clay than sand. Fairways very much dead grass and deadpan and many spots under repair. Staff did not seem to be customer friendly and food was mediocre at best.