Golden Hills Country Club

Recent rains made for cart path only. About half the fairways were extremely muddy and wet. Greens were fast and hard to read but rolled fine.

I was in a time "slot" in which the pace of play was about as good as it gets on this course. For mid-winter time, course conditions were exceptionally good, as were the greens, though some player ahead did not do a good job of raking traps and repairing ball marks.

I travel often for work and play a lot of courses, so I was excited to try this one, but the experience was disappointing from the start.

I asked the pro shop about the terrain before deciding to walk, and was told it wasn’t very hilly, which wasn’t accurate, especially on the front nine. More frustrating was the pace of play, I was waiting 5 to 7 minutes on nearly every hole, and there was no marshal on the course to keep things moving.

After the front nine, I asked for a cart since I was tired of standing around, and was told carts weren’t allowed after 4 PM, even though other groups were still out on the course with them. There was no flexibility, and no refund offered.

I ended up leaving after finishing the back nine, who has 7 to 8 hours to play 18 holes?

This is a management issue first, staff second. Policies, pace of play, and having a marshal on staff come from the top, and when they’re not handled well, staff aren’t empowered to fix problems. The course looks nice, but the experience doesn’t match the price.

I’ve played this course multiple times for over a decade now, starting is SCJGA events into high school. There is so many better courses in the area. The course was designed poorly and the conditions are always disappointing. Poor amenities as well. Save $10 or more and play somewhere better. Or play somewhere actually nice.

Course is great, layout pretty good and in very good condition. Unfortunately there was a men’s league teeing off in front of me. Two old “members” pulled up on 1st tee and asked what my time was then proceeded to pull up to there boxes and tee off. I was already delayed 10 minutes then had to wait for these two clowns to go then waited on every hole. There should be a starter and a ranger

Course was in great shape especially for this time of year. Only negative on this place there isn’t a driving range open to the public. Pace was a little slow today.

Driving range is for members only. Beautiful course!

Great layout right in the middle of Lexington.Nice fairways!

The course was fun. Takes driver out of hand on a couple of holes and is tight off the tee box on a couple of holes, but it was fun. It was packed for a Wednesday afternoon but most of whom we caught up with let us by and were friendly about it. Only problem which was slight was the amount of cup holes on the greens. One green must have had over 20 different cup holes on it and it doesn't seem the grass in growing over them well. Would probably be better to just have 5 or 6 pin locations and have the ones not in use capped. Hole 9 was definitely the worst at having a rediciulous anount of old pin locations. Had 5 of them with in a 3 foot circumference. Other than that though it was a good course. I'm a 23 hdc and shot an 89 on a par 71. I'll take it. Lol.

There was a holiday weekend. Slow play prevented us from finishing the round by three holes.