Olde Sycamore GC
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3.5
1451 Reviews (1451)
5 Stars
442
4 Stars
534
3 Stars
266
2 Stars
111
1 Stars
98
Conditions
3.2
Value
3.3
Layout
4.2
Friendliness
4.1
Pace
3.7
Amenities
3.8
65.8%
Recommend this course
1102 out of 1451 reviews
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4.5
13 Reviews (13)
5 Stars
8
4 Stars
4
3 Stars
0
2 Stars
1
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.5
Value
4.2
Layout
4.6
Pace
4.1
Amenities
4.4
StaffFriendliness
4.5
92.3%
Recommend this course
12 out of 13 reviews
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3.6
41 Reviews (41)
5 Stars
13
4 Stars
11
3 Stars
10
2 Stars
3
1 Stars
4
Conditions
3.4
Value
3.3
Layout
4.2
Pace
3.8
Amenities
3.8
StaffFriendliness
4.2
65.9%
Recommend this course
27 out of 41 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Semi-Private
Par 72
Length 6965 yards
Slope 142
Rating 73.4

Formerly known as Olde Sycamore Golf Plantation.

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Course Details

Year Built 1997
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Mach 1 Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Tom Jackson

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Dress code Proper golf attire required.

Food & Beverage

Bar

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Banquet Facilities
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3.5
1451 Reviews (1451)

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Reviews 2
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Greens unplayable

Love the course, love the layout. Definitely more challenging from the blue tees than the white. Tees and fairways were in great condition. Greens were unplayable. I would not play this course until they were.

Conditions Poor
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing

Greens are in bad shape

Overall this was a fun course to play, the staff was very friendly and the course wasn’t very crowded so the pace of play was great. The only complaint I have is that the greens are in very bad shape. You almost can’t putt at all because of all the dead grass and patches of dirt. There were many times where I had a good putt but the fall hit a patch of dirt and got completely thrown off the line. I’ve heard that the greens are better in the fall so if I play this course again I will definitely wait a few months to play it.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Never will go back

I played yesterday Saturday and I will never play this course again. I paid $52.50 and felt ripped off. The greens were in terrible shape. I have pictures to prove it. It should only be $15 maximum to play this course the way the conditions is right now.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Fair
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 9
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played

Need fixing

Course layout is great, but unfortunately the greens are horrible. I can't believe how they looked. It used to be one of the top courses in the Charlotte area.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Fair
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Something happened to the greens. Tee to green is great but the greens are now garbage. One of last courses to still have bent grass greens and probably just too hot for that? Actually still putt ok, but large patches of dirt. Not sure is plan is to let them go and change out to a summer grass?

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Previously Played
Wet weather
Used cart

Let's be honest about "the issues".

I am 60 years old and have never encountered worse greens in my life. If you decide to play here after reading this review, be forewarned that you will be putting on cratered and cracked mud (if its dry) or packed down mud (if it rains, which it did all day on and off today). This is way beyond a "maintenance issue". What we have here is years upon years of neglect. I could build a better green in my backyard with a shovel. STAY AWAY. This course is not coming back anytime soon. A complete rebuild is required.

It's a shame, because the rest of the course is 4 out of 5 stars.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great Course

We had a great time at Olde Sycamore. The course was fun and beautiful.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Worst course in Charlotte

There are so many better courses in Charlotte, I payed $28 and still felt ripped off. Course was in terrible shape before it started pouring, then on the 4th hole when it started pouring at 3:30, I called about a rain check and it apparently was too late and was going to “clear up”. Other courses in the area would not give you this treatment and act this way when a flash flood happens. You probably couldn’t pay me to go back. Only a 5 star pace of play because of how few people were there.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Fair
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 11
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Beginner
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Fair
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Previously Played

Terrible Greens

Charge a hefty price or having terrible greens. $72/person for a round of golf, and greens are all dried and patchy.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 45
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Previously Played

Greens

I love the course layout, but the greens are in horrific condition. Hope they can figure it out because I really like the course.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Previously Played

Greens are a little rough at the moment. I think they are growing them back rn, it was half mud on a majority of greens on the front nine

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 39
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Challenging Layout

The course is nice and well maintained. They are having a few issues currently with their greens but I’m sure it is heat and drought related.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

The course has a great layout . The tee boxes and fairways were very nice . The greens were horrendous. You can’t be charging a premium when you have greens you lost

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Beginner
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great course!

Nice fairways, generous.

Greens are ‘healing’ from hot weather

Staff was friendly.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Wet weather
Used cart

i enjoyed the course and would love to play again when the greens are in better shape, with that said even though are burnt out the ball rolled true on most. fun course and thank you for the discounted rate.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Golf Day

Played a great round of golf with my teen sons. Had a great time and the course was fantastic!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Greens are in rough shape overwatered moldy and bare patches other than that the course was in good shape. Most bunkers were in good shape.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

A good ‘public’ option BUT…

I call this my home course. I have played this golf course since it opened, so probably more than 100 rounds. Cutting to the chase…PRESERVE and FIX the terribly inconsistent putting surfaces! Stop charging $99 for a round of golf in the AM…never is this course worth $99…unless major inconsistency is addressed. Back to the greens…..The greens at OSGP have ALWAYS been subpar. Fairways and bunkers are in decent shape and they have made improvements on some holes to make some of the holes a bit more playable… (#2 and #7) by removing some of the landscaping around the greens. The groundskeeping team keeps the bunkers and fairways in pretty decent shape. (Bermuda fairways and fluffy white sand for the most part.) Green side bunkers are inconsistent, but at least there is enough sand in them to effectively exit them using typical sand techniques. Fix the greens PLEASE!!! My biggest gripe is not the fact that they have bent grass greens, (which I absolutely love playing ion and make a lot of putts on BGG. However, rarely do you experience these greens when they are not under stress, spongy, slow, and not to mention the massive amounts of ball marks that go un-repaired. Of course this is not the golf courses problem… its the golfers that play golf here that don’t know how to repair ball marks. I played last Sat and today, and TODAY they did acknowledge the greens are in bad, no almost unplayable shape and gave a discount. However, I did not expect to have more than 2/3rds of the greens to be literally unplayable because of external stresses on these greens. One frustration on the signature par 3 was there was little more than half of a effective green surface to play… pin placement was literally on an incline on the worst part of the green…. On this particular day, the starter was very friendly and again explained the situation with the greens to us and thanked us for being there to play. I wish the people taking my money in the clubhouse cared enough to engage beyond a ‘transactional conversation’ ….cash or credit? Insert your card…yada yada… and would attempt to get to know their customer better. Back to the greens…I would hate to see them switch over to a Tiff Eagle Bermuda green … Because I love bent grass cause then the rate to play would probably be $125 in the AM…and $75 in the PM… the course is not $100 around golf course… Even with pristine conditions and if greens were replaced… $65 to $80 would be good value. If your listening OSGP…fix the greens… re-tool a few holes and tidy up some obvious ‘penalty’ areas to make balls easier to find and play out of …and encourage twilight golf, practice area improvement (like top-tracer range) and lights on the driving range. Make it a GREAT alternative to joining a private club!

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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