Southbridge Savannah Golf Club

A hour and 25 mins to play 5 holes. 3 groups sitting on 6 tee box waiting. Called pro shop and they said they looked and a group is 41 mins behind pace. Had 3 open holes in front of them. Unreal. Pro shop said they don’t have anyone available to send out to hurry them along. Fairways and tee boxes are ok condition. Greens are atrocious. Hands down worst greens I’ve ever played on.

Good price for 9 holes, nice clubhouse and great staff. The greens are unplayable. Dirty, painted ground with very little grass.

Nobody told us that the greens were me in such bad condition. It’s one thing that they’re being aired, but it’s another if they are infested with so many weeds.

Course layout is very nice and the staff is friendly. However, the greens are absolutely terrible and the cart paths are in bad shape.

The greens had recently been aerated and sanded making them almost impossible to use. If this was made known prior to booking, then we would have selected another course. I understand the need for course maintenance and want to recognize the great things the superintendents do, but some maintenance makes playing a course difficult.

The staff were so friendly and knowledgeable, but I wish they would have made known that the greens had just been aerated.

The course layout, fairways and tee boxes were great.

Reluctant to give reviews that are less than appreciative but felt like I should share this.

I would recommend this course.

Staff was great! Payton is a doll and super friendly. That’s about all I can say good about this place. Tee boxes are far from level. Fairways need some love. But the greens! In the 40 years I have played golf I have never played on such terrible greens. I can’t believe they even charge people to play here. Embarrassing! Save your money and go somewhere else.

As the course is now, I responded that I would not recommend this course. Greens were overrun with poana making putting impossible. I would try the course again if I knew the greens were in good shape. I had anticipated it being better. Pro shop folks were nice and pace of play was great.

This course has so much potential but the greens are atrocious. On the bright side, we didn't see a single other player during our round of 9.

Southbridge has so much potential to be a GREAT VALUE golf course. The Rees Jones design has some fun holes, but the greens right now are rough. In their current condition, some are virtually unplayable. Some have so many bumps due to weeds that every putt is an adventure. Others are just sand greens. This is not to say the superintendent is at fault; Southbridge is a challenging piece of land to maintain, especially with a limited budget. Even in the best conditions, these greens are tough to maintain, and the course doesn't get enough sunlight due to the surrounding tree canopy. Maybe when the weather gets really warm, the Bermuda will kick in and choke out the weeds. From tee to green, it's a fun golf course, though it would not hurt to clear away some of the trees to open things up a bit. Yes, Brian Harman grew up on this golf course, but he would probably cringe if he saw these greens.

The greens are horrible. They look like there were hundreds of plugs put in them and now they are covered in little patches of grass. Ball bumps and hops all the way to the hole. The rough needed to be cut. The grass is high, thin and seeds are now forming. I would advise not to play this course at $65 a round. In fact, we were a 3 some and paired with a member. He was so embarrassed of the course, he demanded that he take us to lunch!

Bottom line...worst if you call greens in Savannah. Weeds dirt and plays like jinga janga. Need to focus on greens not new tee boxes.

Over the years I’ve played Southbridge many times, it’s my home course as I’m a local nearby and it USED to be a good course for a decent price as was a lot of Savannah area courses which many have also gone downhill. For this area (and I can name at least 5 courses just like Southbridge as far as conditions go) that all ask way to much for the conditions your getting.

Seems course managers have it in their heads that because we’re a tourist city they can get away with charging premium prices for moon condition courses. As MANY said below my review the greens are an absolute joke, if you mentally want to have a good day out when you get to the green just pick your ball up and score a 2-3 whatever you think is fair and move on every hole because if you don’t you will score the highest round of your life. Mary Calder our local muni cheap course for $44 Is in way better condition then Southbridge hate to say.

Last weekend they paired us up with 2 guys from Chicago traveling through on business, even they said Chicago courses that are buried in snow 6 months out of the year are in better shape then Southbridge which is mind blowing because we have all year to work on our courses.

Southbridge also loves to book scrambles and tournaments every Saturday at prime time for weekend golfers who just want to play, make it make sense. Hey Southbridge not everybody wants to work around the good ole boys that play your course 4 days a week during the week on weekends. If they want scrambles do it during the week. To be very honest I really don’t think Southbridge could fix the greens even if they wanted to,I truly don’t think they have the skill or knowledge to do a major fix like they need they would probably have to hire outside help at crazy cost.

So when we see (like today) every tee time slot filled we just have to ask where’s all the revenue going? 60-70$ a round and it just keeps getting worse and worse. We live in a golf Mecca in Savannah there’s no shortage of greens keepers here between all the courses and the Landings with their enormous staff we have greens keepers hire someone!

So that’s my review for this year, I’ll play another round next year and review again with some hope.

Worst greens I’ve ever played on in my life and they are still charging $70 to play to 18. Course was in terrible shape.

Course conditions especially the tee boxes and especially the greens need work. Most greens were unplayable.

Such a disappointment for a $70 Saturday round. I understand for the area that’s not a terrible price but once you get to the end of this review you’ll know why. First, this course needs to completely redo their greens. There isn’t any grass growing other than the large clumps of Poa that make putting some sick twisted game of Plinko. Large portions of cups missing, random streaking over the greens.

I have played Southbridge before and it wasn’t nearly this bad. It will be off my list going forward and hopefully GolfNow does the same thing or they will be getting complaints.

Lastly, I work at a private country club on the maintenance crew, not an expert by any means but slightly more educated than most. The photos I’ve included show huge chunks of past cup locations & greens missing grass any kind. Another picture shows an old pin location that was not set back to the proper level of the green. Golf is hard enough. Impossible to even evaluate with such poor conditions.

The course setup is awesome, and the staff is super nice but, there’s no way they should be charging $60 right now. The greens were in terrible condition. I like this course but would wait ~2-3 months until they get the greens nicer.