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River Falls Plantation
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River Falls Golf Plantation in Duncan is a Gary Player Signature Course. Its location makes it convenient for meeting up with people coming from Asheville, Columbia, Atlanta, or Charlotte. The golf course is also just minutes away from downtown Greenville. The narrow layout will test the accuracy and shot making abilities of even the best golfers. Rolling hills provide a variety of elevation changes that range from subtle to dramatic. Water hazards come into play frequently and there are also strategically placed bunkers framing the greens and fairways. Player crafted a golf course that is both formidable and scenic. The abundance of mature trees helped him achieve this. He carefully wove River Falls Golf Plantation through the mature forests, allowing the trees to surround the holes, giving each a secluded and peaceful feel.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
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| Player Tees (Black) | 72 | 6697 yards | 72.8 | 137 |
| River Falls Tees (Rock) | 72 | 6238 yards | 71.1 | 132 |
| Plantation Tees (Wood) | 72 | 5702 yards | 68.3 | 127 |
| Plantation Tees (Wood) (W) | 72 | 5702 yards | 73.9 | 133 |
| Belle Tees (Red) (W) | 72 | 4802 yards | 69.1 | 122 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player M: 72.0/136 | 390 | 370 | 220 | 523 | 452 | 128 | 339 | 375 | 486 | 3283 | 432 | 180 | 538 | 330 | 337 | 174 | 389 | 370 | 527 | 3277 | 6560 |
| Rock M: 69.8/130 | 340 | 357 | 183 | 508 | 403 | 122 | 328 | 361 | 448 | 3050 | 377 | 174 | 525 | 326 | 317 | 167 | 377 | 330 | 488 | 3081 | 6131 |
| Rails M: 68.3/121 W: 73.8/135 | 330 | 329 | 170 | 491 | 388 | 116 | 312 | 345 | 410 | 2891 | 341 | 163 | 507 | 314 | 286 | 156 | 362 | 303 | 466 | 2898 | 5789 |
| Gold M: 66.7/112 W: 71.8/127 | 306 | 313 | 161 | 471 | 369 | 110 | 303 | 287 | 395 | 2715 | 331 | 154 | 481 | 245 | 263 | 145 | 354 | 275 | 449 | 2697 | 5412 |
| Red M: 63.5/106 W: 68.1/119 | 292 | 276 | 152 | 325 | 325 | 97 | 281 | 287 | 310 | 2345 | 240 | 122 | 434 | 245 | 235 | 116 | 296 | 275 | 389 | 2352 | 4697 |
| Handicap | 15 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 6 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 9 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 4 |
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One of the more unique courses in the upstate area.
I've recently started back playing golf this past year in about ten years. My dad and I have played just about every course the upstate and surrounding areas have to offer. I will say this was one of the more memorable courses we have played. It has a lot more hills and water than most in this area. It isn't that difficult of a course, but still enough to challenge and avid golfer. We will definitely be back to play this course again soon.
Great time
Great course, very challenging. Would recommend to anyone.
Poor Bag Drop / Starter Talent
Booked tee time on line for 1:40 pm. got there at 12:20pm, paid and handed ticket to starter at 12:25pm. Relayed msg from pro shop that I would be playing with Mitch. then the confusion started. No one on tee box for 10 minutes and no Mitch. Then a foursome out of nowhere went to first tee and teed off. I asked when and who I would be playing with and starter said he wasn';t sure and went inside. Came out and said Mitch. Then another foursome went to tee first tee box and teed off. by now it was 1:10pm. I asked again about my starting time and starter asked who are you? I explained I was paired with some Mitch by pro shop. He seemed confused and went in to talk with someone. a few minutes later he came back out and said I would be with Mitch but wasn't sure if it was a twosome or threesome. After more confusion two guys showed up, one was Mitch. They said a third person was coming . After a few more minutes the third person showed up and we eventually got to the first tee behind a third foursome. Teed off at about 1:25pm. Cart path only and a 5hour plus round later, we finished just before dark. Very unprofessional starters who seemed to be playing favoritism. I have played here before quite a few times and it seems to be getting worse, both the course and the service personnel.
Check in was seamless and attendant was most gracious. Always somewhat a difficult course for me but I love it.
A Great Day to Play.
We arrived about 20 minutes early, got checked in smoothly and checked out the nicely equipped pro shop. The course was in exceptionally good shape, with nicely kept fairways and large smooth greens. The course is spread out over quite an area, with the Tyger River flowing by several holes. We crossed paths with a deer on the back nine. The course itself was challenging but not to a fault. Great value. We'll be back...
Great Course, beautiful layout next to the river
I loved the course, the staff was great and the river running through it was awesome, had some very beautiful scenery. It's in a very nice neighborhood with new houses being built and very nice homes in place. Great area.
Great layout
Every hole had unique features so I never felt as if I played the same hole
Great course conditions
Played only by myself and the advisor ask me to start at tee #10 which let me play without any waiting time. That was great. Everything is in a perfect shape.
Golf review
The course was in good condition the greens were excellent, beautiful day to play golf.
Good time
Good time with friends. The course was in good shape and the pace of play was great.. Weather was really good for November.
Hilly but very good
Excellent shape. Especially with all dry weather.I enjoy ed the whole game
Thank you for the positive review. Glad you enjoyed your visit. Please come back and see us soon.
Conditions improving!
First time playing this course since late 2013. Conditions have improved. Greens were very good. Tee boxes were hard and dry. All in all a good experience.
Thank you for taking the time to visit and review River Falls. We appreciate your feedback. Please come back soon.
Thank you for the encouragement. The staff at River Falls welcome your feedback and appreciates you taking the time to review your visit. Glad you had a good experience. Please don't wait 3 years until your next visit!
Greens were in fantastic shape
Nice layout.... However fairways had dead clumps of grass all over the place... The Rough was in horrible shape.... Grass had not been maintained in quit some time... There for wen it was cut clumps of grass everywhere.... A great design going to waste . All do to the way the grounds are being taken care of...
We appreciate your feedback and you taking the time to come play at River Falls. Due to a healthy growing season, our maintenance staff is working tirelessly to make sure the conditions are as consistent as possible. We apologize if the mowing/blowing schedule took away from the enjoyment of your round. Again, thank you for your feedback. We hope you will come back and give River Falls another try.
Great course
Great course, however, greens had been recently aereated...give it a couple of weeks.
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Thank you for playing with us and for sending us your feedback of your time out on the course! We appreciate the review and hope to see you again soon.
Best Wishes,
River Falls GC Mgmt
Great upstate course
Great course with challenging layout. If you are a long hitter, leave the driver at home. The fairways start to bottleneck around 260 and become very narrow. The par 5's are the toughest holes on the course but fairly easy if you play them with irons. Great value for the price, highly recommend. Greens are diamond zoysia and are firm but very true.
Thanks for the five star review! We are happy to hear that you enjoyed our course conditions and layout. Come back and see us again soon.
Worth making an effort to play
Overall the layout was interesting. Elevation changes and water coming into play. Greens were in great shape. Rough was thick and fairways were nice. The Pro in the Golf Shop was great. When we told him we had never played there he took the time to walk us through some of the holes that were not as straight forward as the others. That was a huge help. I plan to make it a point to play there again.
Glad you enjoyed your visit. Come back anytime!
Hot deal makes this a great value
The high grass that surrounds many of the holes will swallow your wayward balls...I can attest to such.
Thanks for the review. We are happy to hear that you enjoyed your round. We look forward to seeing you back again soon!
good test
pace of greens are just a bit slow , but course is in very good shape
Thanks for the review! We are happy to hear that you enjoyed the course conditions here at River Falls Plantation. We hope to see you back again soon for your next round.
Pucker Up, This Place is TIGHT
This is one of the tightest courses I have ever played. Be prepared to either control your driver or club down to guarantee yourself a solid lie on your second shot. These narrow fairways really add a lot of character to the course, but add a lot of headache for the player. Nothing is given here, everything is earned.
Course is protected by water and OB sections around most of the holes. You really have to be accurate here to go low. When you are allowed to pull out the big stick, you have to take full advantage. We played this course in May and found the course to be in great shape. Greens were still slow, but they were obviously protecting them for the later summer months.
Pro shop is okay, food is decent, staff is excellent. I would recommend this course to others for sure.
Thank you for your review. We are happy to hear that you found our course to be in great shape. We hope to see you on the course again soon!
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Mr. Williams, first of all, we appreciate you taking time to play at River Falls and leaving us feedback. We apologize you were unhappy with your visit. It is our priority to make sure all of our patrons enjoy themselves while visiting. Since we don't recognize every patron, it can be difficult to pair up groups that may not know each other. Being a particularly busy day, it makes it more difficult. We know it wasn't your fault, as your were here on time, but the other 3 members you booked with were late to the tee. When this happens, starters will send the next group to the teebox. On slower days, they would have sent you as a single, but with the volume of play that day, that was not an option. Again we apologize for any inconvenience and hope you will come back to River Falls. Thank you for your feedback.