River Forest Golf Club — Attraction in Forsyth

This is a great course with a nice combination of elevation changes, creeks and lakes to navigate, strategically placed white sand bunkers, and large undulating greens. They take very good care of it and it always looks nice with smooth medium/fast greens, thick but closely cut fairways, and the . A nice driving range where it seems they are always hitting off grass and a huge practice green. There are several blind fairways and doglegs, so course knowledge is a huge help on those holes. It would be very helpful for a first timer to have either a member in their group, a yardage book, or an app with overhead views of the fairways and distances to hazards. Luckily all the members I have met are genuine and friendly. It is a neighborhood course with distance between some holes, but the houses generally sit a well away from the fairways/greens, and with very little if any OB coming into play. I would highly recommend playing this course if you are ever afforded the opportunity. The course is very woman friendly with a tee choices of under 4300 and under 4900, the nines both return to the clubhouse, and there are real restrooms after the 4th hole on both nines. Nice electric carts with coolers. There are 4 tee boxes with with the scorecard offering 6 yardage combinations to choose from (6735, 6280, 6063, 5489, 4893 4274). A big clubhouse with a large dining room that works great for hosting tournaments. Also a bar and dining room that is great for a drink/meal before or...

This course is beautiful with wonderful mountain view’s and a river zig zagging through the entire course. The fairways and greens were great. The big problem was the amount of mowers on the course. We started at 7:45 and we dodged mowers for 3 hours. We had a rumbling engine in the background on most of our shots. One young driver kept mowing full bore no more than 30 yards away from us until we finally asked him to turn his mower off while we hit. We called the pro shop and they told us the starter should have paired us up with two other people. Huh?? What difference does that make? They finally finished mowing after we had played 15 holes. If we were playing a muni course our expectations wouldn’t be so high but at $100 each it would have been nice to enjoy the wonderful scenery without engine noise in the background...

This is a very special course. Beautiful. I was shocked. It’s in the middle of nowhere but worth the drive. One of the best you will play in the state. I’ve played many nice ones. (Cap city, the manor, settindown, east lake, etc)

Nothing great about the clubhouse, the food, or the practice facilities. But the course...