Hickory Knob State Park

We’ve played here before. The layout around the lake is really awesome and everyone is nice. Unfortunately the greens were very long and very very slow this weekend. I doubt we would go back until someone confirmed the greens were rolling more normally.

Played hickory knob for the first time this weekend. There are a few holes with funky layouts, number 2 particularly is a bit gimmicky. The greens all had grass on them, and were slightly slow but not unplayable. Greens were not bumpy. The fairways had plenty of grass, so they were definitely playable. However, the bunkers were in fairly bad shape with grass in some of the bunkers and not much sand in others.

All in all I really enjoyed the round and would return. Earlier reviews regarding the greens not having grass are no longer true. Hope this review was helpful, I’ll definitely be back.

This course is in great shape.

Greens are a little slow to my liking.

A few trees could use some trimming at a few tee boxes.

These make the tee shot have a VERY narrow window.

You can hit a great tee shot that goes thru limbs knocking it down.

Overall I like the course.

Course was not crowded but pace was a little slow. Greens were decent but slow. Beautiful layout and terrain. Some very different holes. Will continue to make the trip and play 2-3 times a year.

The greens were not good the fairways were fair tee boxes not good , the layout is fantastic, I don't think our tax dollars are being used at all on this site!

Hickory Know is a good course. It has a variety of holes that range in difficulty from easy to very hard. I have 2 bones to pick with Hickory Knob: 1) when I was there this past week, the greens had been worked on and were not in good shape. They were bare in some places and very bumpy in others. 2) No. 4 requires an uphill drive and then a downhill approach to a green requiring a forced carry. The fairway is mown so tightly that a drive that gets to the downhill slope with any velocity will not stop short of the pond. Bad design and maintenance.

I played this course alot this was my first time playing this year 80%of the greens had no grass just patches they were not fun putt on . The course also needs a Marshall to move pace of play their was 3 drunks holding up the play they were playing so slow and obnoxious

Very nice course. Challenging with lots of water. Heavy rains had made water areas larger than normal.

Course was recovering from high lake level and rain. Greens were aerated and hard to read. Really a well layer out course and lots of fun. Would like to play again when course not affected by high lake level.

Several years ago the course was in excellent condition, but today the course was in poor condition at best. Range had no grass. Greens were sandy, bumpy, slow, and only had patches of grass. Tee boxes were not good either. Layout of the course is great. but the course needs serious attention and should close down until they make some improvements to the condition.

We played twice this course

Challenging and great

Pace of play was very slow on the Sunday but this is normal as family day

We will return any time

Cart path only and greens are slow. Probably why only a few of us on the course.

Great weather! Course was in decent shape... too many leaves on the 2nd cut, caused balls to be lost multiple times.

The staff was great. The pro shop pricing was great. The course layout was great even though some of the fairways can be a little narrow. My biggest issue was it had entirely to much debris on the greens. We had to clean almost every one to be able to putt. The grounds keepers should blow them off more often.