City Club Marietta

This course seems to have more challenging greens than many others in the area. That may have been partly exaggerated by the very dry conditions. I’m not a very good putter, so I had a lot of 3 putts. But is wasn’t just me; 2 of the players I was assigned with were very good golfers and they remarked on how challenging the greens were. Don’t change a thing - I need to learn!

Staff was great! Location was awesome. The course was average but the pace of play was great. No water on the course so bring a 6 pack of bottle water.

Played 9 holes in the evening and the course was in great shape except for the tee boxes, which were rock hard. I broke several tees just trying to get them into the ground. I’ve never carried a hammer in my bag, but I just might bring one next time!

The greens are in excellent shape. It was slow, but this is a fun course. Not difficult.

This course is pleasantly laid out and close to my house, but I usually try to play somewhere else. That’s because the pace of play can get ridiculously slow at City Club. Yesterday was a good example. We got very backed up on the back nine. It turned out there were two couples and it appeared that the men were giving lessons to the ladies. The men would hit several balls each, then the ladies would hit numerous balls. They weren’t letting people play through, so we just skipped a hole and went around them, as did the foursomes ahead of us. The carts have GPS and display messages that suggest that your pace of play is monitored, but it did not seem to be. Also, no marshall’s on the course to help keep things moving.