Bacon Park Golf Course

No water on our cart. Waste of time playing here. The fairways and greens are horrible! Won’t be back!

Lots of paint spray used to dress up the course, but that's OK. The GPSon this course should be reprogrammed. Got stuck way to often and then trying to find the next green to aim for was tough.Greebs were terrible but ok with heat.Still unacceptable. Sure glad we only wasted $80 with Golfnorth.Do you gather info before you add courses. SAD day,and my wife quit after 14.

For a $40 18 hole Donald Ross course its what you should expect. Rough around the edges but still a very fun and and playable track. Played here for the first time after playing other courses around the area and i can comfortably say this is one of the better ones when it comes to what you are paying for. Definitely playing again soon!

I was excited to play a Donald Ross course and because it was the pride of Savannah, Georgia, and its only municipal course, was sure I would have a great time.
The staff was nice and there didn't seem to be very many players. They had fairly new carts and the club house was adequate.The course had no yardage books nor did the scorecards have any pictures of the hole's layout.
When I drove to the 1st tee, there was no tee number or yardage marker and I had to decide whether the tee box markers about 40 feet to the right of the dirt cart path was the place I was to tee off from.
The fairways were not terrible but could have used a closer mowing. They had patches of crabgrass and poa anna in many places.
The rough had a lot of damage from mowers that had apparently been stuck on several holes.It was also quite deep and full of crabgrass and weeds.
I finally found a restroom on #14, that was hidden from view and I got directions from a crew member who was driving around in a gator.#9 does not take players back to the clubhouse.
The bunkers had no drainage and were either water hazards or mudslides.
The greens had poa Anna on many and a couple were like playing obstacle golf reminiscent of the Plinko game on the Price is Right. Most of the greens had severely damaged patches where they were either not properly watered or insects and fungus was not killed quickly. On some greens the drainage looked as if someone cut a ditch into them.
The website said the course had been reconditioned to the old specifications Donald Ross built. Usually the fairways are tree-lined and narrow, but these were mostly like a links course.
Savannah should be embarrassed that their "Gem" municipal course is in this condition. It is hard to believe a city like Savannah won't put up the money to fix this course into the quality Donald Ross designed it to be.
I would probably have scored at least 6 or seven strokes lower if I could have putted or didn't lose golf balls in the fairways.I don't know if the maintenance crews are inexperienced, underpaid, or understaffed.
I play a 1919 Donald Ross course in Wilson that is in much better shape and only $30 on the weekend. And their municipal course is immaculate.
I will drive down here next year and see if the City of Savannah has fixed this course. If they don't, I'll play somewhere else.

The greens on a handful of holes were pretty chewed up. The place didn't look like it has been cut in a 2 weeks and the rough was prime to lose balls in plain sight. This place has the nerve to have gps carts but almost no cart paths so found myself getting stuck quite often. In short they could have taken the money from the carts and just improved the course. If it wasn't for the deal time with a promo spend your 50 dollars someplace else.

kudos on the 3 green restorations. they are holding up pretty well so far. they are making an effort to improve the conditions. the fairways and tee boxes are in pretty good shape.

This has to be one of the top 3 worst courses in Savannah.
Tee boxes.. fairways…greens ALL AWFUL..
Tree limbs was laying in the tee box on the first hole at 11:00 course opens at 7:30..
Grass clippings left on the course..
So thick we actually lost a couple balls that we know for sure landed in the middle of the fairway..
This place needs a total shut down and shown some serious attention..

If I wanted to play a round of golf and this was the only course available I would pass and just sit at home..
I was beyond disappointed..

worst greens i' have ever seen in my life ! i will not be playing there again any time soon !

After I paid then they told me they just air rated the greens, staff was very friendly but the greens looked like I was playing on the beach.

Good course to score well on. I shot my personal best on it this week! Pretty forgiving with little water to deal with. A few of the greens had some bare spots. But I know they are addressing this as they had a couple of temporary greens in play while they are resodding the regular greens. They could also use some better signage for the direction they want carts to go from hole to hole. Especially since they have the GPS monitored golf carts which shut down if you enter the wrong place and the cart paths are not easy to find on some holes. Overall, a good course for the money. Also, kudos to Dick, one of the starters who came by checking on everyone…a great guy!

I got a discount but I couldn’t imagine having to pay the full price. A lot of the greens were under repair so the “temporary green” was just a pin at the end of the fairway (unputtable). And the greens that weren’t under repair were such terrible quality it was almost as bad as putting on the “temporary green”.

While we are playing the course was under a major renovation so my opinion is clearly derived from how we saw this course on the day we played. We were given the option of playing the first nine holes twice with cart or walking the back nine due to refurbishments, we chose the latter. There was also a few bachelor parties and blitzes on the course this day so the rate of play was absolutely glacial. Price was $40/person so it was nothing to complain about; I just wish I had a better first experience since I live less than five minutes from Bacon Park.