City Club Marietta

I have played this course several times and have had a good experience each time with the course conditions, pace of play, other golfers, and staff has always been nice. I am specifically writing this review to give a huge praise to the staff who made not only my experience exceptional but my 5 year old son who loves golf and got to play for just the second time.

It was a busy day as expected with several foursomes in front of our group of 4 plus my son. I let my son hit his ball at each tee then would pick up his ball and drop with mine to keep our pace moving along As we got to the 6th hole one of the employees drove up to let us know the group behind us had called to complain that my son was causing us to play slow and if we could speed up the pace and not have him hit every shot. I understood the frustration and told my group I would hit my shot and drive up with my son to play ready ball and we did that the rest of the round, which was only 9 holes.

As we pulled up to the clubhouse, unloaded our cart and started walking to the car the starter called me over and asked if he could speak with me. I initially thought he was going to reprimand me, but to my surprise he thanked me for coming and for bringing my son, he personally apologized for having someone complain, and he said “you are welcome to bring your son to play here anytime you want”.

After that I brought my son inside to tell the pro shop thank you and let them know we had a great time and they also were very apologetic and made my son feel very welcomed, and even gave him a Pro-V1 as a souvenir.

This experience will stick with me forever and I will be bringing my son back many more times.

I arrived an hour before my tee time and checked in at the pro shop. No issue there and the staff was fine. Went down to check in with the starter and grab my range balls. Threw my bag on a cart and was told “sir that’s not your cart”. Ok, which one is my cart? “Come back at your tee time.”. Kind of ridiculous to not let your guest, when they arrive to get a cart to situate their belongings to be ready to go when it is time. Played a lot of golf and have never experienced this. Instead I walked awkwardly to the range with all my belongings and balls to the range, which in my opinion is unnecessary. Traffic is bad so everyone else is running late but not late for the tee time. Everyone arrives on time and we tee off on time. The course itself has seen better days. There are a lot of hard dirt bare patches and tee boxes that are in rough shape. The greens are the best thing this place has going for it. We finished up our first 9 at right at two hours. The group behind us didn’t wait a single minute on us and wasn’t even on 9 tee when we stopped at the clubhouse before going to 10. There was a twosome ahead of our foursome we waited on twice on the front. Myself and one other person in our group went into the clubhouse for food and water. They had grab and go sandwiches and a good selection. Staff was friendly. No issues there. I had to wait on someone ahead of me to order and pay so that took a few minutes. I head back out to the cart and see two employees had just talked to the other people in our group and asked what that was about. “Kyle” from Galveston was asking them if they were only playing 9 and making comments about keeping up with pace of play. A few issues here “Kyle”. We played the front in two hours which is the definition of pace of play. You should also expect (and want) people to stop and spend money at the turn so it was weird to me that he seemed to be discouraging that (I spent $30 in about 8 minutes). My bad “Kyle”. Won’t happen again. We all head over to 10 and I expect that the group behind us would be hot on our heels after the fuss from “Kyle” but they were just on #9 tee. I think “Kyle” should be better at reading situations before opening his mouth. It was unpleasant to be rushed for zero reason. We also purchased drinks from the beverage cart twice and she was another good staff member. Food and beverage and great greens is about all this place has going for it. Golf staff left a lot to be desired. We finished up our round exactly Four hours and ten minutes after our tee time which included our stop at the turn. Our group plays together once or twice a month and we all agreed that this course would not be on the list anymore.

This course is beautiful and challenging. Very hilly, lots of hazards with some makeable par holes. The greens were a little faster than we were used to and you couldn’t compress the ball on your fairway shots so my score was higher than usual. But we’re on vacation and got lunch at the turn and really enjoyed the day!

Have played this course many times. Wait until at least May to play this course. $53 is not worth the condition it’s in. Tee boxes are just okay, greens are in good shape and fairways are largely miserable. I know it’s March, but I’ve paid less than $53 in prime season so paying near full price for the lack of quality is frustrating. Also, I had to skip 16, 17, & 18. Booked plenty of time to play a round but we’d been out there nearly 5 hours and still had 3 holes to play. I truly do not understand how people play so stupid slow and this course does nothing to police it.

18 holes took 5 hours and 30 minutes. With No Marshall enforcing pace of play, letting random groups tee off at will, and tee times too close together, avoid this place at all costs. Plenty of other places similarly priced that you can actually play at a decent pace