Hilton Atlanta/Marietta Hotel & Conference Center

Nicely tucked in behind Hilton convention center in Marietta. Didn't know about this place and played for the first time on a perfect Fall day. Impressed by the clean tee boxes, greens and fairways even with the changing season (leaves/dormant grass). Beautiful views of Kennesaw Mountain in the distance.

Greens were fast. It was a beautiful day to play. Had fun.

This is a great course in the local area. The only thing they need is a starter or to spread out the tee time 2 or 3 more minutes. Pace of play is always bad here and always gets backed up

The course was in good shape and greens were nice. Pace of play was almost 5 hours and there was no marshal to keep pace on a Saturday

Great overall course conditions every time I’ve played here. Hope 4 has some fairway issues due to the downslope and drainage but still plenty of good turf. Greens are always in great condition and always fast with plenty of breaks. Probably the best value course within 30 miles of the city.

Played 9 (under 3000 yards) holes in 2.5 hours. Called the pro shop to let them know about the backup around hole 4, they said they’d send someone out. Never happened. Decided to pick up the bags and head home at the turn. One of the staff asked about the round so I told him it was terrible because of the pace. He retorted with a snide attitude that it’s a public course and I should go private. Yeah bud, it is public, but that doesn’t mean it has to be poorly managed. The staff clearly doesn’t care about the game of golf but about putting as many golfers on the course as they can, pace be damned. Do better.

Tips:

Play in the winter and get wary tee times so you don’t have to wait for 10 minutes between green and tee box.

Good conditions besides the bunkers and average pace of play for a Saturday. The major issue was the greens. They're the fastest greens in the area along with unfair pin placements. They have a tournament in 2 or so weeks so they were placing the pins on the sides of hills to save the good (fair) pin locations.

There were some pins where even putting from below the hole they would roll back 15+ ft from the hole, and if you were ever above the hole it's impossible to stop it from rolling 30ft+. Joke pin placements for these conditions.

I play here about once a week. But they really pack them in. So pace of play is always 4.5 hrs long. No ranger to move anyone along. Other then that the course is always in great condition. This was easily the hottest day of the year. Sure would be nice to bring back the water stations.

Played in the middle of a hot August afternoon, the course is in great condition. Fairways are good and green ( very few bare sports) and the greens are rolling great~!!!

No one monitoring pace of play. Five some played slow.

People tee off at their leisure and not the correct time. Was put into 3 some which is fine but they were playing out of 1 bag which is ridiculous. Pace of play is awful. Need rangers to stagger better and enforce slower players to pick up after 8 shots.

The greens were really great. Most of the fairways and tees were good too with a few exceptions. There were a couple of steeply sloped fairways that were hard pan or even washed out. The layout was tight with many blind shots and holes to close together. I could see golfers getting hit from balls coming from adjacent fairways. They had a Marshall to speed up play which helped some. For a Monday morning this course was crowded but we played in about 4:15 hrs.