Bent Creek Golf Course

My brother and I road our motorcycles thru the mountains to play this course and it was great.

Wonderful;helpful staff.....the views alone are are worth the price. Bent Creek is beautiful..challenging...and greatly improved. The fairways are a work in progress,,,but the greens are very good. We enjoyed and will return

We have played this course for 20 years. Two years ago there was grass in all the bunkers and the greens & tee boxes were in bad shape. Course closed for 10 months and the new management has put some $$ into it, and it shows. Back nine greens were awesome, front nine will be the same in another week or two after spring aeration. All bridges have been replaced. Colin and Sierra in the pro shop were a pleasure to deal with. Our group is looking forward to playing there again in July.

I have a vacation home close by. The course has been closed all summer, but it looks really good. Yesterday I saw some workers by the 12th green so I stopped the car and asked them what was going on. They said that a new management company will be opening the course soon, but they are not sure when. In the meantime they have 3 full time workers taking care of the course - mowing, weed killing, fertilizing, and watering. They showed me a couple of dead spots on the green where they had killed some bad grass. other than that the green looked really good. The fairways and tee boxes also looked really good. They said they are just about to aerate and seed.

The course was in ragged shape having suffered wind damage. The back nine was not open but because we booked through GolfNow they could not provide a refund. GolfNow did not inform us of the convdition of the course in advance. People were friendly and accommodating. We therefore only played nine holes.

I liked this course with its creek running through & the variety of holes. My husband does not like "target golf" & that's what it is on several holes, especially on the back, with not very good landing areas. Some of the greens were bumpy also. It was May 2, (in-season?) but the snack shop was closed & all they had to offer to eat in the pro shop were hot dogs & a very small selection of candy/crackers.
I would go back, but don't know if I could convince the others in the group to do so. We got a great price on a GolfNow Hot Deal, which is why I gave it an excellent value for the money.

The back nine of Bent Creek is a must for the avid golfer if you like courses with character. Winding through mountainous terrain and little adventure hikes to the tee box. The staff were extremely cordial and friendly. A Gatlinburg must.

Very challenging course, especially on the back nine. The greens need a lot of work. I really don't think Mr. Player would be happy with them at all. Worth playing but I would not pick it again if I were in the area.

Shot makers course. streams in play throughout, nice challenge, straight hitters will like this course

Very nice layout hope you have a good short game fairways were kind of dry greens were not very smooth but the overall layout and spectacular views and price great value will recommend
Thanks,
Greg
Baltimore,Md.

The greens and fairways were in poor. It had rained the day before, but despite sunshine and wind, there was standing water everywhere. Muddy spots and mushy rough.

Course in great shape. Is challenging with mountain streams and forests along many fairways. Beautiful scenery.

I will visit Bent Creek every time i'm in the Gatlinburg area.It was a very fun course to play. Staff was very nice. So glad they started us off on the back nine for it was very challenging , couldn't find but one par back there but when we made the turn and played the front nine I found three birdies and four pars and not ta mention someone driving right through the golf course lost in a big truck asking could they play on through, I thought that was pretty cool. There is a road that does run through the course splitting a few holes. If ya anywhere close ya need to play this course!

This course is a microcosm for all that is wrong in golf. I have been playing golf since I was a child and I have never walked off a golf course shaking my head more than today. Not because of my play, which was neither good nor bad...score aside...which didn't even matter out there because the conditions and fairness of the course was so absurdly poor...no...I shook my head because of a beautiful golf course ruined, a once beautiful layout turned to absolute garbage. Etiquette. Lacking. I will list A FEW major complaints:
- spotty greens
- fairway then immediately jungle rough
- a huge divot a foot from the cup on 1
-over hanging wire on 4 from tips clearly obstructing shot
-traps were not sand traps on a golf course but actual death traps with quick sand SOMEBODY PLEASE USE A RAKE
- HUGE SINKHOLES IN LANDING AREAS IN THE FAIRWAYS
-Oh...and you finally get to the signature hole, little par 3 out there on the back and you walk all the way up those steps, chugging along, thinking how Gary Player would love the exercise, but you don;t really care for it at the time?...and say wow this better be good up here and you get there and wow what a nice little h... ASTROTURF tee box...

Last but not least, I was on the 15th tee. It was around 6 30pm. playing by myself. plenty of light. still have another 30 mins or more to play 4 short holes...no one out there. worker guy and his gal roll up in their cart...and not exactly politely or apologetically tell me to pack it in. they need the cart back. granted the lady at the beginning said something about it, but at 6 50 she had said...at sunset...about 20 more minutes away...I couldn't believe it. never it my life has anyone told me to pack it in, sorry, you can't finish your day, especially when there is abundant light. he left on his cart. and i played it in anyway...in about 15 minutes. when i finished, he FOLLOWED ME TO MY CAR IN HIS CART. And I could only tell him in a not so golfing voice...I will never be coming back here sir. You will be home from work in 10 mins, I told him... don;t worry, your precious golf cart has returned unscathed...and look still plenty of light in which to lock it up in?!

Never again.
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I booked the round w/Hot Deal ($25 w/cart), and would not spend more than that. Lost more balls than I have in 3 yrs due to terrain, long grass/tree perimeters, and meandering creeks. No hole diagrams, 2 ball washes on the entire course (several muddy areas), greens were in terrible shape so you could not judge speed, and it took 5 hrs to do the round (no ranger on the course). also, the bunkers are terrible.

All in all, not a pleasant experience.

Greens were way too soft, so they had a lot of unrepaired divots. They appeared to be eaten up by a fungus. Some greens had 2 different types of grass growing.

We played Bent Creek a few years ago and enjoyed it - except for all the goose droppings you had to navigate around. This time the gnats were so bad you could hardly see. The roughs were awful and even some of the fairways. We lost so many balls - even right off the green. There are a couple of neat holes but this course definitely needs some TLC and bug spray!

I kept wondering what Gary Player would think of this course now. It could possibly be the worst conditioned course in North America. Doesn't look like they ever mow the rough, fairway and green side bunkers need sand. Crab grass is growing throughout all the greens. One green had a depression that was filled with 2 inches of water in a 10ft radius. The only good thing I can say about this course is maybe some of the views as your in a valley looking up to the mountains. Maybe back in 1972 this was a nice course but now it's not even a good cow pasture. Hands down the worse course I have played in my life.

Course has had a rough summer with too much rsi . The rough was very high but the fairways and greens were good. The course it very challenging. Course management a must