St. Marlo Country Club

I played here many many years ago and the course has taken a sharp downturn.

It starts with the grumpy old man at the bag drop who should hang up his golf shoes if that ornery about still working. Then get ready for a backache which ironically comes from how bad the cart path conditions are across the entire course and that’s putting it lightly. A mountain bike would have paired better with these paths. Pair that with a non-golf hole or two(number 9 can’t be argued) and a washout where they should have never let anyone out on the course and you have a subpar review. Double bogey course at best that I will avoid for another 15 years or when my memory gives out :)

No mention of the driving range being closed. No beverage cart. No mention of a hole being entirely unplayable until getting to the course. Greens in rough shape.

Played St Marlo for the first time in a long time. Course in great shape, greens were rolling well. Marshall and bag drop crew were very friendly . Pace of play was great in fact we might’ have slowed up others as we had one person of disability.

Thanks St Marlo

You must replace nearly all if the cart paths. They are terrible and is hard on back hitting pot holes and broken concrete. Course was in good shaoe.

Stater told me I was antisocial because I preferred playing as a single

Pace was very slow, so I asked to skip a hole then I played fairly rapidly.

Course conditions were inconsistent from hole to hole. The course itself is pretty challenging, traps surround many holes, water on sides, fairways are pretty wide though.

The greens are extremely bumpy and slow. Most of the tee boxes are destroyed and not level at all, so you usually have to tee off in a different/flat area.

This course has the potential to be 5 stars. Great layout, fun to play, fairways are good. They do not take care of the greens and a lot of tee boxes are in rough shape. Has nothing to do with aeration, ball marks everywhere. They are charging for a course that existed in the past. Go to RiverPines in Alpharetta or Hampton Golf Village in Cumming. Last I played there were a bunch of singles and twos coming up behind us. Did not see a ranger once to regulate.

Everything was great except for having to wait every tee box to watch the 4 some ahead lose 500 balls in the trees.

So... St. Marlo is a "Go To" golf course for sure... The staff is friendly; the course is challenging and the superintendent is doing a super job keeping is "tight". The greens need some love and clearly some have a bit of fungus to deal with, but still roll nice and true. (only a few rough spots). Be ready for a challenging course with changes in elevation, some tight dog legs and your occasional extra narrow fairway. I mean, if the fairways were wide, this would be an easy sport right? ;) Great course and an excellent experience!! Try it out!

Second time playing there and the 2nd time was not quite as impressive as the first. Nice course, but I suppose due to COVID the course condition and up keep was not as good as the previous time in early March this year. I'll be back, in the spring of next year.

Course has a lot of potential. But the management does not invest in the maintenance. The cart paths are awful and poses a huge threat and liability. Somebody is going to get hurt. The greens are rotted with dry patches.

The course was overall in good condition except the greens were still recovering from aeration and a few of the greens were bare around the edges.

Since they had the 90 degree rule on, we had to drive on the cart paths alot. They gave a real problem with uneven pavement throughout the course. It was smoother to ride on the grass.

I’ve played St Marlo many times in my 20+ years in Suwanee. Generally it’s always been a nice course in a beautiful subdivision. Some years conditions really good, other years just average for an upscale course.

But needed to warn fellow golfers about conditions and management of our round today. Right off the bat, we could tell course was packed full. I’m okay with that if pace of play stays decent. But, no joke, we were waiting a few minutes for every shot. We are not speed golfers, but not slow either. All four of us above average players.

On 10 fairway (short par 5), we were all about 180-200 yards out and waiting for green to clear to hit 2nd shots. The ranger abruptly drove up and told us to pick up the pace and keep up with the group ahead of us. When we mentioned they literally just left the green on a par 5 he stated we again needed to keep up. He drove over the the other twosome with us and said the same thing. They rebutted the same comments about waiting on every shot up to that point and that we were simply waiting for green to clear and he again said we needed to keep up. One of my partners said ‘sir I’m 210 out. Do you want me to hit while they are still on the green?’ He said ‘yes, I would’.... just ridiculous.

If that isnt bad enough, we get to the next tee (par 3) and, you guessed it, group ahead of us still chipping and putting. Waited another 5 minutes... the ranger followed us for the next two holes before leaving.

It’s a little offensive to be treated like that at a supposedly better than average course. I will mention the young man at check in counter was top notch.

All in all, just based on conditions and price, I’d steer clear of this place until they get the greens free of sand and pitch marks (really really bad) and they get some better training in place.

Beautiful weather today- was very disappointed with our experience on the course though from start to finish (actually the starter was very pleasant). Most greens were in below average to poor shape, many had large swaths of sand on them. Several to many tee boxes were in very poor condition. After about 4 holes of very slow play a marshal rolled through and told us it wasn’t the group in front of us playing slow but it was a group on 9 that he had asked to pick up the pace. After a 3 hour and 10 minute front 9 we went to 10 where we again waited as the group in front of us teed off. After we tee off and are in the fairway a different starter comes through and tells us we need to keep up with the group in front of us. I said “sir, we have been waiting on every shot all day, how can we play faster?” He had just left my other 2 some who he had told the same thing to. My buddy said “sir, I’m 210 out and the group in front of us is still on the green. Do you want me to go?” The marshal then goes to the 4th golfer in our group and tells him we need to pick up the pace. Unbelievable. He then hovered around us over the next 5 or 6 holes (pace never improved, it was drudgery). Ended up being a 5 1/2 hour round. Next time instead of starting on 10 and telling that group to pick up the pace maybe the marshal can start on 18 and work his way backwards. Maybe the marshal can realize that folks can hit the ball 210 yards in 1 shot and that yardage isn’t a layup for us

Long day on a course with poor conditions and poor customer service. But hey, it was 70* and sunny!