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4.6
1127 Reviews (1127)
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1 Stars
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Conditions
4.6
Value
4.5
Layout
4.6
Friendliness
4.7
Pace
4.3
Amenities
3.9
97.4%
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1073 out of 1127 reviews
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4.8
17 Reviews (17)
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4.8
Value
4.8
Layout
4.8
Pace
4.5
Amenities
4.1
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4.9
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4.7
38 Reviews (38)
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Conditions
4.8
Value
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Layout
4.8
Pace
4.3
Amenities
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StaffFriendliness
4.9
97.4%
Recommend this course
37 out of 38 reviews
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Course Highlights
The Chimney delivers consistently impressive conditions with plush fairways, well-manicured rough, and excellent greens that keep golfers returning. Exceptionally welcoming staff and a thoughtfully designed layout away from surrounding development make every round memorable.

About

Holes 18
Type Public
Par 72
Length 6500 yards
Slope 127
Rating 71.4

The Chimneys Golf Course features 18 holes of exceptional golf. Our signature feature is the abundance of native rock found on-site, intricately hand-laid throughout the course to accent our greens, fairways, and pedestal tees. With strict attention to detail and no homes in sight, the course plays as a par 72, just shy of 6500 yards over five sets of tees to accommodate golfers of all abilities. Combined with southern, hometown charm, The Chimneys is an experience unlike any public course in north Georgia.

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Course Details

Year Built 2002
Fairways Bermuda
Architect Phillip Ballard (2002)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
GPS No

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy No
Teaching Pro Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted Yes
Metal Spikes Allowed No

Food & Beverage

Bar, Snacks

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Reviews

4.6
1127 Reviews (1127)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Amazing Food 7
Drinks 6
Course Challenges Include:
Bunkers 56
Elevation Changes 54
Forced Carries 43
This course/club is great for:
Locals 60
Seniors 42
Wildlife/ Scenic Views 38
This Course's Location is:
Worth the Drive 57
In the 'Burbs 31
Convenient to the City 19

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Reviews 102
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

mzbc123

No complaints other than backed up a little. Marshall on course would help. Tee boxes to greens in good shape. One of my favorites to play, always in good to great shape. Got a good price on their website playing @ 12:30. Also like their water fountain option.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Big fan of this course

I play this course as often as I can. It's fairly short which is great for me and the average duffer. Despite a complete lack of rain lately the course and the greens are in great shape. There wasn't any food at the snack bar (other than chips, candy and bottle soda/water) but that's been the case at the last few places I've played.

Anyway I highly recommend this course . It's beautiful. The staff is friendly and it is more than worth the money.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 2
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

Great experience

will play this course everytime i'm in the area.

Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 113
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Top 500 Contributor
First Time Playing

Nice surprise

I had a little extra time today and found this course and I am glad I did. This a FUN track that measures 6,500 from the tips. It has a few drivable par 4s to help lower your score.

It is a visually pleasing golf course and it was in fantastic shape today.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 41
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

Way out in the boonies but a great course worth a play

Course was in great shape. There were 2 holes that were a bit unfair off the tee for the average golfer but otherwise a neat layout that i enjoyed thoroughly.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Great Conditions, Carpet Greens

Chimneys is a great layout with lots of elevation changes and beautiful rock mounding. The tee boxes, fairways, rough, and bunkers are all in great shape (Especially during such a brutal summer). However, the greens were very slow. They were very thick and difficult to putt on unless you hit your ball with a sledge hammer. Playing in the morning they're a little better because of just being cut, but during twilight hours they're similar to shag carpet. Overall, Chimneys is a great, fun course to play, and I'm sure its perfect during cooler temperatures in the fall.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Beautiful course

Beautiful landscaping, plush fairways and well manicured greens with tough challenging holes. Great course! Must play!!

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Poor practice facilities

Course is in really good shape. Although the bent grass greens are very slow, they are also extremely receptive to approach shots. Main complaint is there is no chipping or bunker area. They will not even let you hit little bump and and runs on the practice putting green. I also went for a round there and the driving range was closed because they were cutting the grass. I was not notified of this before my round and was not even allowed to hit little pitches to warm up. So no range time and no chipping made me go onto the first tee cold. I wish I could continue playing golf there because the course really is beautiful. However, I need to practice my short game before I play so I will not be going back unless they change the no chipping rule.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great play!

Only negative , they let a 5some out that wouldn't let us play through. Not the Chimneys fault just bad etiquette

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Nice course

Course is in good shape. The greens are thick and slow due to the drought but that's common. The rough is extremely thick. The fairways are perfect and make for an overall good course that's challenging.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Loved it

For a hot dry August the fairways, rough, and greens were beautiful! Stay out of the bunkers ( hard pan) or swing out of your shoes to get out. Will definitely be back regularly.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Pretty course

Overall it is a very nice course with sceninc holes.

The greens were lush but a little slow because they were over watered to keep them healthy for the august heat. The layout is very nice, but I would prefer more medium length holes. The par 4's were either long or really short.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

beautiful course

It's a course that anybody can play, and have a great day. Fair ways were in perfect shape, greens were every nice. People who were working could not be more pleasant to deal with.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Excellent course and great value from Golf now.

The course was excellent shape,but only to many balls mark on green needed to be repair.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 12
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Fair weather
Used cart

Beautiful course

Course condition is excellent. A couple of holes are a little bit short, though.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 264
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Top 25 Contributor
Georgia Advisor
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Awesome course and in GREAT condition, greens excluded

This was my first time playing the course. It was awesome to play. I can't believe such a great course exists out in the middle of not too much.

- The pro staff was excellent, friendly and very accommodating.

- The stone work around the course was beautiful, especially on the front nine

- The bunkers had plenty of sand and were very well kept and raked

The only drawback was the greens. The greens were very shagy and hence quite slow. I could not believe all the ball marks in the greens. There were huge ball marks that were left unrepaired. It seemed as no one who has played this course in the past two weeks ever even thought of repairing a ball mark on the greens.

If the greens were in better condition, this course would be on of my favorites. Even with the slow, shaggy greens with lots of ball marks, this course is WELL worth the drive to play.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Fairly Easy
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Commented on 09/12/2016

I was a member for two years. That was the biggest issue, people not repairing ball marks or improperly repairing by popping them up. I would fix at least 5 ball marks a hole when I played. Otherwise the course was great!

Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Suprised by course conditions

Have played this course many times before and have always been very pleased by conditions of the course, this time very suprised. All of the sand traps were in ruins, they had filled with water and had been left to bake dry, the side walls on many were falling down and they were completely unplayable. The greens were fair at best and with the fans running and conditions it was obvious they were trying to save them. Most of the rest of the course was ok, just needed to be cut, not sure if this was a weather issue, not being able to run the mowers or what. This course to me has always been a hidden gem and the course conditions suprised me. Not saying I won't go back but I hope when I do it is back to what I remember, a hidden gem and a great course rather than just an average course.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great condition

Course was in great shape. Used golf now rate, which was great. Finished 18 holes in 3 1/2 hours.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 33
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Average weather
Used cart

Undiscovered Gem

This course was referred to me by a few pros and was a real treat to play. Staff and started were very friendly and let me start ahead of my scheduled time. An excellent course for high handicappers as there are wide fairways and very achievable distances for greens. The fairways and greens were in absolutely pristine condition. Pace of play for a Saturday was excellent. What is an extra bonus is the unique landscaping and actual chimneys located around the course. What look to be local rocks accent many of the tees and bunkers. A bit of a drive from Duluth but well worth the effort.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great golf course

This is a great course. Long par 5's , challenging par 4's and birdie making par 3's. It provides both challenging and stroke saving holes. Tee boxes are in great shape, fairways are in great shape and the greens are awesome. Hard to believe this course is owned by the City of Winder. I have adopted this as my home course. Definitely going back.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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