Forest Hills Golf Club

Old traditional course with a great layout, fabulous views and good pace of play. Unfortunately some of the greens had a fair amount of fungus, but most of the greens rolled true with less break than expected. The tee boxes however were somewhat bare, wet, and not always flat. The fairways were in great shape.

When I arrived I was informed that my tee has been delayed due to them punching the greens. They did offer to speak to golfnow to get me a refund. At that point I felt it was too late. Staff and course was great. I wNt to come back when the greens are as expected.

Hadn't played this course in a while. We did get a break for what was told as minimum green damage. Greens are pretty much trashed. Additionally, the pace of play was horrible. No structure in the tees times, we were waiting on the first tee box, 20 minutes later than expected tee time. The round was dreadfully slow. They really need to work on course management. Big disappointment.

Really enjoy the Dave Ross design of this course and the staff does a fine job of maintaining fairways and tee boxes. Usually these greens are pristine but something happened in the last year where the course lost all of the greens. Now players are forced to putt through sandy conditions on the greens and they’re pretty furry because they’re trying to let them grow back and recover. Playing from the back tees at this course seems to be my favorite location as it opens up the course to driver on most holes.

I've played at Forest Hills off and on for seven years. It's a fun course built in the twenties with some interesting holes. This was the first time this year that we played. The fairways, bunkers and tee boxes were all in acceptable condition. The greens were practicably unplayable though. On almost every hole, 1/4 to more than half of the grass on the green was gone, dead, non-existent. There is no warning on Golf Now or when you check in that the greens are in such poor shape. We wound up giving everyone a two putt once they reached the green. It was worse than playing on a green that had just been aerated. At the turn, one of our threesome complained at the desk and they seemed offended by the complaint and blamed a freeze back in the winter. When asked why other courses in the area didn't have the same issue, they said that it was due to the higher elevation of Forest Hills compared to other courses. Needless to say, until we hear the greens have recovered, we won't be playing here again. There are too many other options in the Augusta area.

Excellent course, but the greens are not good now, I never seen the greens like this.

Normally I would rate the course conditions excellent but some of the greens are struggling from the winter. I’m sure they will be back in tip top condition very soon. Still one of the best public courses in the CSRA.

Nice layout, fairways in great shape. Pace of play was good and staff was nice. Beware the greens suffered over the winter and 17 out of 18 greens are heavily damaged and incredibly hard to put on.

This is a course where you never look at a review to see what the course conditions are since they are normally the best in town. We were shocked to see the condition of the greens. It appears they put down too much fertilizer and completely destroyed them, only 16 is normal. Its hard do describe how ban they are. 75 percent of each green is damaged and there is no grass present, just lumps of dead turf, it may take all summer or longer for them to recover since it appears the roots are gone. Rest of the course is in good shape.

The greens are heavily damaged including the practice putting area. The range was closed and it was cart path only due to recent rain which made pace of play slow.

I’ve played this course many times and this is the worst shape I’ve ever seen it in!

fairways were wide! Good pin placements for the different levels! Unfortunately came when they sanded the greens. Lots of walkers lined up with carts which made the play slow.

I love the course and it’s always tough when the greens are being worked on. Can’t wait to see and play them in a few weeks.

This time a year ago the greens were smooth and fast. The course has since lost their greens. Like other reviews state, they are very slow. The greens are stimping between 6-8 depending on whether you’re putting on dirt or grass (the dirt is faster). So I just took two putts and moved on since they are not true greens. Good news is the normally impossible pins weren’t so tough since the slow greens made them accessible. Fairways and tees in great shape. I like the cart and GPS upgrades. Pace of play was great. Not busy at all, probably owing to the bad greens. Only played due to having multiple GolfNow credits. Won’t be back until the greens are repaired.

My favorite course in the area. Green had had some work done to them and were a little slow but greens fees were lower to account for that.

I highly recommend this course if you have not played it.