Island Pointe Golf Club

My husband had an amazing time playing this course. Friendly staff, beautiful surroundings, perfect greens

Played 5-12-25 through 5-15-25 (4 rounds). A+ greens and fairways. Tees - B+. Working on sand traps to make them top notch. Friendly, helpful staff. Trouble lurks, if you "spray" your ball too much.

This was a super fun and challenging course. The greens and fairways were in good condition! You hit across or next to water on several hole. The cart paths are rough in some areas due to the 2024 flooding. They do seam to be working on repairing them and fixing damage. Overall, a great course and I would play it again.

This is the best public course anywhere near knoxville with perhaps centennial or avalon as a close second.

Play here, it's worth it.

Island Pointe (AKA River Isle) has been a favorite whenever we go to the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area. The devastation due to Hurricane Helene was disheartening.

I could see the progress being made to put things back to normal, and I look forward to my next round there.

Only complaint would be the bunkers having no sand.

Fun Course - Fun course with many holes on large island in river. interesting layout with several par 3’s over water. Some tight fairways on Par 5’s. Par4’s more open. Quite a few holes with side slopes or interesting topography. Staff friendly - not much of a club house. Overall course is 4.5. Would definitely play again.

Great layout nice greens-still coming back from the flood but overall great course

The course is playable for all skill levels. If give the tee boxes a 4 or of 5. Fairways, were 5 out of t, greens 4 or of 5. The greens were uneven, mostly fast. Course under some construction but very scenic and fun to play. Bunkers were not maintained. If play it again and recommend others to play it but hopefully the course is repaired the next time I'm there. The carts need upgraded.

Great challenging course but fun!

Will definitely be back.

Flood waters from the past Hurricane has done some damage to the course. $50 is a little high. The greens need some work, tee boxes needed to be mowed. I sure it will be back to its prime in no time.

Vacationing in east TN and Island Pointe was showing up as one of the better public courses in the area. Figured with it being an Arthur Hills design, it’d be a nice track.

We booked online for our twosome, the gentleman in the pro shop was extremely nice, and informed us when we arrived that several of the holes were under repair due to the extreme weather. We were able to get started with in a minute or two, the started was extremely helpful and told us about some of the damage to the course.

We really liked the course layout, I can see the potential of this course if/when the condition improves. Pace of play was excellent for us, we were told that we had another twosome in front of us, there no delays through the entire round, nor did we have anyone behind us at any point.

So, it was explained that there were areas that were in pretty bad shape, but all of the greens were good. Overall the greens were decent. One thing I’ve never seen before are huge tarps rolled/folded up on the sides of greens. Of course, my ball happened to bounce into one of them. The hazards were probably in the worst condition. Bunkers flooded or packed wet sand,,I remember seeing one bunker that had some sort of big river rock in the middle of it, I can’t imagine it was put there on purpose.

Overall course condition besides the greens seemed to be pretty poor. I would hope that’s all due to the weather damage and not a course management issue. The only other issue was that hole 9 doesn’t return to the clubhouse. There’s a snack truck on the ninth hole, along with two restrooms (one was out of order). Unfortunately, when we got to the ninth hole, the snack truck wasn’t open yet. A bit frustrating not to be able to get anything to drink halfway through the round. It be great to have a vending machine, water cooler, or a roaming beverage cart when the snack truck isn’t open. Its something I’d expect from any course at this level that has a layout that doesn’t bring you back to the clubhouse at the turn.

I cannot recommend Island Point enough! New club house is super nice and the staff was very kind. Course was in immaculate shape even with ongoing construction. Overall a 10/10 experience I cannot wait to go back to this beautiful course