Avalon Country Club

The course is challenging. Is a great course to get use of your drivers and hone in on your skills. Definitely not a beginner course.

The course is unplayable - even under "winter rules" in July. They lost many of the Bermuda fairways due to cold weather and poor fairway maintenance last winter, and they waited until July to repair them! Many fairways have been sprigged, and are almost under water due to heavy watering. Many tees are bare. One green ##6# is Zoysia, and in good shape, while the other 17 are Bent and ok, but pretty thin. The bunkers are AWFUL! There is no sand in most of them - just rocks. Our group decided to take a free drop out of the bunkers with no penalty, to prevent club damage. I played with a member who said the Men's group at Avalon has a similar rule.

It was a beautiful day, but very slow due to cart path only on most of the holes, 5.5 hours for 18 holes! The guest rate with a member was low, but it was still too high! We could have played in a cow pasture and had more fun. At least the beer was good!

This course has been in bad shape for several years, this one being the worst. They should close it, and fix it up. The word will get out about the current condition, and people won't return. It is a good layout, and the greens, which are very undulating and challenging, are in fair condition, although the grass is thin #except on #6#. Hopefully the repair work will take hold soon, and if they put some sand in the bunkers, it could be a really good course.

Meanwhile, Golfnow should put an asterisk on this course and warn users of the condition.

This is a nice course to look at, greens are fairly smooth and receptive, and I played very quickly.

They have lost some of the fairways, especially on the front, but they have recently sprigged them to try and bring them back. Back 9 in much better condition.

A nice mix of easy and challenging holes gives you a chance to score.

Not a walking course.

Course was cart path only for all but 3 holes, not mentioned when booking. If grass comes back it would be a nice course. Pre booking staff mentioned that fairways had be "sprigged" but not that they were cart path only. Fair value for this course would be $40 if in good shape.

More than half the fairway were being reseeded and that meant we had cart path only. They even had the sprinklers running, I would not play this course now.

Fairways were still suffering from the winter freeze. Court path only on 13 holes due to watering to try and recover the fairways. Would not had played it, if I had known in advance before booking through golfnow.com.

Avalon books this as a premier course.However I reccomend you check with the course before booking to check conditions.Before we started the staff did say they were having bermuda grass issues,but I have never been on a course when they turn on the sprinklers while you were playing the course.Also had to move balls many times because they had soaked the grass so much it was like hitting in mud,maybe it will improve but very disappointed wouldn't play again without improvements,especialliy when there is a better course only about 5 miles down the road.

Dead Fairways - Sprigged new Bermuda so they were watering the fairways while we were playing. The course was literally a swampy mud puddle. Starter told us to hit your shot, pick up your ball and try to find a dry area to drop for your next shot. We did this all day everywhere. What a mess. They should have posted a warning but they did not. In fact I checked their website the next morning and there is no mention of any problems. I played here 10 years ago and it was very well taken care of then. They have let it go to pieces. Would not play here again even if it was free.

The course is undergoing bermuda repairs and 14 holes were cart path only.Those holes had standing water and some had continious sprinkler spray.For $30 it was way to much.They need to close front 9 untill it heals.Golfnow should have an icon for course conditions(flooding,plugging etc).golfnow should have a link to icon info/meaning.

They should have Closed the Course while they are repairing it. 90 percent of the fairways were saturated with water, you could not hit from 90 percent of them, even moving your ball to semi dry area. They were obviously repairing the Fairways, but that is no excuse. If they needed that much work, which they did, they should have closed the Course till was repaired, or work out a deal with Willow Creek like Willow Creek did with them when they were working on their course....

The entire course is under repair, don't play here until fixed

The course had to sprig some fairways. The majority of the fairways were ground under repair. I would wait a while for the grass to come back before playing here. Pace was extremely slow.

Don't play this course till they have all there issues worked out. They had a grass disease and almost every fairway was a swampy mess. Hard to find plugged balls. Sprinklers on constantly. Give it till next year. Good course other than that

Major repair going on and several holes were not playable in my opinion.
Due to overwatering of the Bermuda sprigged areas much of the none damaged areas of the fairways were unplayable due to standing water and super saturated areas.
A big disappointment. To add insult to an already tough situation a two some (couple) was allowed to jump on 10 at the turn in front of us - the female picked up after her ball after her fourth shot still had her not 50 yards from her tee box.

This course is in absolutely horrendous condition and should be shut down immediately for repair! Only 4 holes can be driven on with cart and fairways are full of mud!

The course was in very poor condition. The only part that was in good shape was the greens. The fairways were very soggy and many areas of the fairway were roped off. If I had known the course was under repair, I wouldn't have played it! Normally this is a nice course but the pace was slow and the course not in good shape!

Avalon has always been a premiere course in the Knoxville area. Due to the recent winter being long and extremely cold a lot of the fairways have been lost. They are trying to bring the fairways back through sprigging. This seems to be the case with most Bermuda courses around the area. Greens in great shape. Pace of play was extremely slow, mostly contributed to the situation with the fairways & most of the course being cart path only because of it.

This place should not be open. Smells awful. Never again for me 30 dollars to play in those conditions. I've prob. Played there 100 times

I normally really enjoy playing at Avalon. This time I saw there was a course alert of "Upgrading Fairways through sprigging", but I had no idea the course conditions would have been so bad. The greens were in excellent shape, but almost every fairway was marked as Ground Under Repair and were a muddy mess. We had received a lot of rain in the last few days, but they stated that the sprinkler timers were still active and soaking already saturated soil. I am not upset with their efforts to restore their fairways, but more so with the lack of explanation at the time of booking. The course is not worth the $30 price tag at this point. I realize they have cut the prices to account for the conditions, but it is still too high currently.

Avalon has the more potential than most golf courses, unfortunately this course is one of the worst around. They have watered the fairways so much that they are literally swamps and most fairways are painted as unplayable. Lets not forget to mention how nice it is to see the sprinklers still spraying on 4 holes at 4:00 in the afternoon. All of the loose sod around the greens is a nice touch as well. Oh and the sand traps....I think they should be called gravel pits. This place is an absolute joke as I mentioned in the subject line. Do yourself a favor and skip this course.