Jekyll Island

Most courses I have played around the country, have geese or swans or ducks if they have any wildlife at all… But the wildlife I saw at this course was… Buzzards…which is pretty fitting for the conditions of the course. Bumpy and bare greens, thin fairways and tee boxes that were either nothing but sand or overgrown. Staff was amazing, practice areas were nice, but Indian Mound is closing in on goat track status.

Beautiful and challenging links course. Lots of character. Really fun track.

Approached my tee time with trepidation because of the reviews I’ve been reading on GolfNow. My advice: ignore the complaints. Does the course have some blemishes? Maybe, but they are part of the charm.

I have played the first iteration of Great Dunes and at that time it was 9 holes and in really poor shape. I have played both course at Jekyll Island they are fine courses. I think Great Dunes will be their best. It’s only been open since November but I really loved the layout, the incorporation of Great Dunes 1927, the Oleander course. In my opinion, Brian Ross got this right! I look forward to my next trip to Jekyll.

Course was in good condition ! Picture perfect day, looking forward to my next round of play at Pine Lakes !

I realize there is a drought but that doesn't excuse weeds on the greens. I wish I would have recorded my playing partners putt bouncing all over the place. Having played here before I can honestly say that I've never seen it in worse condition.

The course for how young it is within in great condition overall layout was great, hats off to the designer. Felt like we were in the UK. Will be a wonderful course in a year or two. Tea boxes were rock hard so it was hard to get the tee in the ground. So bring a hammer lol. Definitely worth going $130 price tag unless you book on GolfNow but it is well worth it. I had the most fun and felt like the 4 1/2 hours that we played felt more like seven hours somehow it was awesome.

A total let-down! This was supposed to be the "gem" of the Jekyll Island courses, but couldn't be further from the truth! I know that new courses sometimes "need time" to mature, but many of these are the same holes from the old Oleander Course as well as the 9 hole Dunes course, and the conditions were horrible! You needed a hammer to push the tee down in every box. The fairways had more dirt and sand than grass, the greens had more bumps and bare spots than the worst municipal courses out there. From the white tee boxes, there were par 4's over 425 yards! If that wasn't enough, there was also a par 3 at 227 yards!!! Not that they were un-doable for me, but darn! The people in the clubhouse checking you in were extremely rude and short and obviously had no idea what they were doing as there was a line about 10 long. With that price of the green fees, you still had to BUY a bucket of practice balls (in which you only got about 20 balls). Save your money and play elsewhere! This place is a joke!

Can't believe they get away with charging such a high green fee for a course like this! With it being newly renovated, I was expecting a lot more. The greens are horrendous, fairways don't even have much grass and minimal signage & direction to indicate where the next tee box is. I have played all the Jekyll courses many times and have never experienced anything like this before. For the price of the green fee, you think you'd get range balls included, but no!! You pay for a bucket and get maybe 18-20 balls and hit off a piece of junk tee area. I will NEVER go back here and there are so many other better courses off the island. I guess they think they can charge a ridiculous amount like this because it's on Jekyll, but it is complete junk.

While playing I found out that Indian Mound is due for renovation and will close over the Summer. The course currently has minimum maintenance and it shows. The course should let you know prior of the conditions and let you plan accordingly.

Place wasvery busy....paired up on tee box with another guest....worked out well....course was in very good condition.....tee boxesin great shape, greens were slick as a pool table, but ran true. Overall, a great day ......will return.

The layout is cool and very attractive. Some fun holes. But the condition is like a Muni. Bare spots all over the fairways.

Greens horribly slow. For $135 I would go anywhere else.