Old Hickory Golf Club

Pace of play is horrendous, if I’m paying top dollar $100+, there should be active marshaling. Just look at the reviews about pace of play, it’s true. I second it! First time playing here.

5.25hrs for what is supposed to be 4.5hrs round, and there is signage in all golf carts indicating pace of play 😂 and exact timing.

Not getting my money again.

Nice course, played better courses for less money and they were actively marshaled.

Please, avoid.

Beautiful course, nice and fast greens. Tee boxes are bland, no tee markers, just a painted wooden stick.

Pace of play is garbage, if I and other golfers are paying $100+, the pace of play should be kept. Theres also signage in the cart about pace of play, 2hrs15 for 9holes, 4.5hrs total. Round was 5.25hrs. It was 1 group in front of us, and frankly? The etiquette and decorum of golf has been lost. If you’re splitting a car with someone, take a club or two and go to your ball and split up. People all over the course searching with no clubs 100-200 feet away from their cart.

You need to do much better on monitoring this, Old Hickory mgmt, if I’m paying $100/rd, you can hire a Marshall or 2. That crap was ridiculous on pace of play.

Sand traps were crappy but it rained terribly the night before - not much I believe can be done there, but $100-$110/rd….

No yardage markers in/on the course.

Everyone staff-wise was nice. Not worth $100-$110 for the experience, maybe $75 at best

My review stopped me for “inappropriate language”describing course conditions, and not pace of play - but it’s the truth, 🤷‍♂️

Writing this review as I wait to tee off on the 9th hole, 2:45 after I teed off on the 1st hole. The ranger literally said there is nothing he can do. Yes you can. You can tell people playing slow to skip holes and speed up. Just an awful experience.

Amazing course. Greens are well kept And the course is gorgeous. Went on a Saturday evening and the course was wide open.

The tee time I booked with golfnow was not honored at the course. It was for 6:45 am they do not open until 7:30 am at which time it is members only. Thank goodness to one of the members that was there waiting to play explained all this to me. Waste of time.

I have read a lot of negative press about this course in recent years, but I wanted to go check it out for myself. I saw a Hot Deal time on a Sunday late morning for $70, so I decided to book it and go play.

I showed up to the course to find out there was a tournament happening the same day. While annoying, the staff was very gracious about it and gave me a BOGO pass to come back for the inconvenience. The staff was generally pretty great and helped make up for the trouble.

...and that great staff was unfortunately let down by the course conditions. Despite the tournament announcer saying the course was in "the best condition it has seen for months," the conditions were pretty mediocre. The driving range (which is length limited and required hitting driver into a close net) was in pretty rough shape with terrible mats and mostly broken golf balls. While the tee boxes and fairways were in pretty decent shape, the green were a wreck with pitch marks and leaves everywhere. I understand that a course can only do so much, but the prices I have seen at this course (although they do appear to be coming down) don't justify the condition. This is especially unfortunately as you can see the bones of a really nice course here.

Overall, Old Hickory isn't quite as bad as you might see in other social media feeds, but it still isn't worthy of the price versus other courses in the area.

The round time here is already a bit long given distance between some greens to tee boxes, but today the pace of play was unbearable. We were five hours in when we arrived at the 18th tee box, never saw a ranger. Apart from the pace, around half the tee boxes were dirt or full of weeds, the bunkers were all rock hard, and the greens were full of craters. At $115 for the round, we obviously expected a helluva lot better.