Smyrna Golf Course - Executive Course

Greens were bumpy and lots of ball marks. Greens need mowing,rolling, and ball mark repair. Fairways in great shape.

There were 2 greens on the back nine that had holes in them like a mole had been digging.

Course is in great shape, easy to walk and great price for a Senior Walker!

Course was in great condition considering the temperature. The Marshalls even had water that brought on their carts. Just a really great public course with great pace. Hard to find a 3.5 - 4 hour round anymore.

First time playing Smyrna and certainly will be putting it into my regular rotation! Shocked at how pristine conditions were for a muni especially compared to the nashville ones. Layout isn’t anything special in my eyes, but the upkeep was still miles above other courses at the same price range around nashville.

Rude experience with clubhouse staff, while trying to purchase a drink on the turn around, because she wanted to close. I also believe they let an unscheduled group of friends squeeze in between t times which I would be fine with, but the pace of play was already way backed up, and then they cut our round short on hole 15 with enough daylight to play at least two holes, just because they wanted to go home early on a Friday night. With the cost of play these days I expect a better experience.

Considering the high volume of play and the current high temps, course is in great shape.

First the good. Smyrna is a great golf course as far as layout, structure, clubhouse and staffing. They offer a full 18 hole course as well as a 9 hole executive course. I had an 11:40 tee time and we promptly teed off around that time, give or take 1-2 minutes. Great for a fairly busy summer Thursday in June. The fairways, and greens were in spectacular shape on the front side ( I only got 9 holes in, more on that in a second). Greens rolled true and the speed was consistent throughout all holes and the fairways were fast considering we have gotten some rain the past week or so.

Now, the bad. The tee boxes need some attention or people need to be given a lesson on proper maintenance of the golf course. Some tee boxes were beat up fairly bad and it was hard to find level ground in some areas. Golf carts could use some attention from a staging point of view, no scorecards in carts and they were a tad dingy and dated.

Finally, the ugly. Pace of play on this particular day was ATROCIOUS to say the least. The Marshall is of no help, we saw him twice and not once did he mention what the hold up was or if they were doing anything about it. Now I don't know if this is a spacing issue or a planning issue or they are just getting a massive influx of newer golfers but I left after 9 holes (paid for 18). Like I said, we teed off promptly at our designated tee time, 11:40 and we were putting out on 9 at 2:20 p.m . So it was a 2 hour and 40 minute 9 holes. That is insane. I understand the demographic of that course is a little bit older and it is a teaching golf course, but something should have been done to get the pace of play up to a reasonable level.

I enjoy this golf course from a layout point of view and it is in great shape for this time of year but the pace of play and the constant waiting on every shot would keep me from recommending it to anyone at a decent skill level.