Talega Golf Club

This is a good track to play. For what you pay it may be overpriced.

The golf course is easy to find. Like most golf courses the bag drop is not attended. Once on the property the staff is friendly however the restroom facilities remain closed and the only available is on the south end of the club house.

The course is in good condition. No rakes in the bunkers.

Pace of play was 5 hours. The restaurant or a cart person we’re not available during my round which was unfortunate.

I would play this track again but it’s certainly not worth the hundred plus dollars.

Greens are too bumpy. Show lack of interest to bring course to the next level

I love to play Talega, very friendly staff and good pace of play. Fairways are not in best conditions. Nice greens.

Very challenging course and difficult greens. If prefer to play at San Juan hills for the price.

Nice course, but I had mechanical issues for first front nine then had a internal repair and fun the rest of the back nine.

Nice course. Tough. Lots of terrain and barranca. If you hit anything errant, it’s lost. It was a challenge but it was fun.

Overall beautiful course, some blind shots that require playing the course a few times to get comfortable. We were hit into on one of the blind holes while we were in the fairway hitting our second shots so I have to stay aware of that. Overall a beautiful course with plenty of space between the holes and nice elevation changes. The greens were a little shaggy compared to when I played before but overall a great value.

Place could be nice. It isn’t well taken care of. Course tends to be very unfair if you don’t know the layout. A lot of good shots ended up being penalized. Potential here but needs work.

There needs to be a Marshall to get people started on the right times and not even have teetimes late to where you can't get 18 in before dark.

I live right by the course and usually give it a chance about once a year. Lets start with the good: Layout is fun and challenging which is the strength of the course. A driveable par 4 on the back. Elevated tee shot on 11. It's a unique course in a good way for sure. Some nice water features (if working/turned on) as well. They did a great job finally replacing all of the bunkers with fresh sand. They were unplayable for many years before that - rocks everywhere. Staff is friendly and easy going and there's two breweries and a distillery close by! Artifex is the best!

Now for the bad: It really comes down to course maintenance. You can tell they cut corners everywhere. The greens were green (except a big dry spot on 2) but way too fluffy and slow, I mean really slow. Many looked like the surface of the moon as if they haven't been rolled in weeks. Not really fresh unrepaired ball marks either, but like bumps and low spots. Overall the greens were nicely designed but the lack of maintenance made some basically unplayable. There was also a lot of collection areas on the fairways that were full of unrepaired divots. Is it that hard to fill them once a week at least? Around the greens there's tons of little grass mounds that are super annoying and should be removed. Fairways were short but need more water. Some holes had nice rough off the fairways but most of it had bled into the and off of the fairways so there was no real definition. And what's with all the dead trees? Take them out for crying out loud and put in some new ones!

So like every year I hope for the best and leave disappointed because like I mentioned., I can walk to the course and it has a lot of potential if it was maintained correctly. I guess I'll be at the SC Muni again this year. Its in better shape and a much better value by far.

every time i have played Talega, it's the same issue. the back 9 pace is unacceptably slow. you need to do what arroyo did an make it a policy (including signs), that require golfers with handicaps over 14 do NOT play from the blue or back tees.. If high handicapers or beginners play from the whites, it'll speed up pace of play. for the hardest holes, consider moving the white tees to a 'manageable' spot. thx