Old Hickory Golf Club

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.

Course was not in good shape. No grass on tee boxes. Bunkers in terrible condition. Poor signage for driving range.

My first time here & it was great! The course was challenging but not over the top!

My only complaint are the red tee boxes. They were terrible.

Otherwise I’d have given all 5s!

Course is not in good shape. Poor fairways and tee boxes. I hope it comes back to what I remember. Do not waste your money. You will be disappointed.

Tees - very weedy with lots of bare areas. Very few tees that had smooth grass areas. The WORST tee boxes I’ve ever played.

Fairways - also very weedy with many bare spots.

Greens - also very weedy with soooooo many ball divots, the most on any course I’ve ever played.

I recently had the opportunity to play a round at this golf course, and I must say that I was quite disappointed with the overall condition of the course. First and foremost, the tee boxes were in terrible shape..

The fairways also left a lot to be desired. They were overgrown in some areas and had large patches of dead grass in others. Lastly, the bunkers were in rough shape as well.

Overall, I would not recommend playing this course until they have put in the necessary work to improve the tee boxes, fairways, and bunkers. It has the potential to be a great course, but it is in desperate need of some serious maintenance and care.

Not worth the money. Worst course I’ve ever played.