The Preserve at Verdae

Great conditions, greens rolling great thankfully not fast like normally, some tee boxes were moved for regrowing areas, friendly staff and well run operation as always. Thank you!

To play the back nine would have taken 3 hours, played the front twice. Staff needs to be forceful with slow players and require them to skip holes. Group in front of us was 3 holes behind and staff did nothing.

Has beautiful features, also makes it tough. Lost a lot of balls. The ruff is rough!

… great course, best conditions (fairways, traps) … every time again 🙋‍♂️

Great greens, very smooth and consistent. Speed was pleasantly quick and playable. Course layout is wonderful. Conditions are great. Grounds crew and pro shop do a phenomenal job. If the price fits in your budget, definitely recommend playing here at Verdae. Great course.

The greens are back to the usual standard of The Preserve!!! The grounds crew out here is phenomenal. They are putting in the work every day. Currently there are a few (3-4) greens that historically have problematic areas (likely due to shade and drainage issues) that the grounds crew has sanded the specific areas in an effort to improve them. However, they strategically placed the pins so the sand was not a factor (only small portions of the greens had sand on them). The holes had very crisp well cut edges. All bunkers seemed to have a consistent amount of sand (fortunately was able to avoid them, but my partners found themselves in quite a few).

Greens were incredibly smooth, consistent, and responsive (predictable amounts of “check” on chip and approach shots). Speed was consistent on all 18.

Tee boxes are level and good enough. Better than you will find at any other public course in the area.

Fairways are great.

Course layout is second to none when considering public courses in the Greenville Spartanburg area. Challenging golf course, lots of places to loose a golf ball (don’t go searching in the woods, lots of poison ivy). Where The Preserve stands out from other courses is the variety of tee boxes and USGA rated course ratings they offer. You can combo any two sets of tees they have. Blue tees are 6754 yards

White tees 6226

Combo blue/white is somewhere in the middle.

Gold is 5495 and the white/gold combo is a great challenge for any golfer not wanting to take on a 6200+yard white tee, but doesn’t want to play the golf tees the entire course. The White/Gold combo set is more challenging than most of the white tees at other courses in the area. Shout out to course management for taking the time to get a USGA rating on the combo tees.

For reference I play the 6754 yard blue tees and have a handicap anywhere in the 5.5-7 range depending on the month. Pretty much all the public courses in and around Greenville are in my usual rotation. If the tee time price at The Preserve is something you are willing to pay, do not hesitate. Great course. Definitely worth playing.

The course gets touted as quite a beauty queen but I consider the conditions to be average. It seems to flood badly judging by the high water mark. A couple of the bridges were woefull. The starter acted like he was doing us a favor by letting us play.

The course was in very good condition, however, the rough could be trimmed a bit. We lost some balls around the green .

Challenging and fun course layout. Regardless of what your average score is, you can feel good about yourself if you shoot a “better than average” score at the Preserve. Huge practice green, friendly pro shop staff and grounds crew, nice golf carts. Greens are below average compared to what they usually are at this course. Still better than most public courses in the area though. Definitely recommend playing the Preserve.

I don’t understand , great location, great layout, promoted next to hotel/convention center; absolutely failed in course condition and staff? Promoted on VA site, but what a disappointment , hopefully someone will read this and make an effort to make this a great experience !

The course is in great shape and the layout is tricky with all of the blind dog legs. The greens have plenty of undulation which can be fun, but this day many of the holes were cut on fall lines. 12 foot putts just to the right of the hole that broke 6 feet, and then when it missed rolled out another 5-10 feet. Being my first time I wasn't aware that you had to be below the hole on every shot.

Friendly, accommodating staff, good challenging layout. Some residual damage from previous flooding, otherwise well maintained. Definitely worth playing multiple times.

Due to the rain from the previous day some parts of the course were very sloppy and the greens were inconsistent. Otherwise, the course was in good condition and the young staff was friendly.