Steel Canyon Golf Club — Local services in Sandy Springs

Note: review is only for the golf course, refer to other comments for the driving range!

Pros: I chose to book this course in the first place because it was very affordable ($91 including tax for 3 players and to rent 2 golf carts to play 18 holes).

Good beginner's golf course. Very laissez faire—no one is headhunting you, no marshals patrolling around, and the people golfing with you for the most part are patient and just here to have a good time.

Booking the course is really easy. You just go directly online (which gives a discount if you book online). There were LOTS of tee times despite me booking on a holiday week during COVID! I had to change my reservation time 2 times, which I had to call the pro shop to change. Every time, it was super easy, no hassle!

Warnings: Mud town! Ditto on everyone else on how muddy the course is. Don't bring your new golf shoes to this course (that is EXACTLY what my partner did, of course lol). For perspective, I was wearing sneakers and by the end of the 18 holes, the wet mud had gotten through my shoes to wet my socks a bit.

COVID precautions are lax! I noticed that people were just parking the carts and no care was being taken to wipe down the carts. Luckily we have wipes handy in the car to use, but otherwise, I think this is something the Club should have as standard practice.

Btw these are gasoline powered carts. So if you don't like the smell of burnt gasoline every time you drive / prefer electric powered carts, heads up.

Don't come here for the scenery! This place literally used to be a landfill. While I am really happy there is a much better use of the land, it's no looker (and the photo gracing this Google profile has to be a few years old—the cute little lighthouse thingy is in a bad need of a repaint). Around hole 5-6 there is this ringing noise coming from the surrounding power / industrial buildings, which can mess with your concentration.

Super confusing layout. People crossing over different holes because their ball would land on a completely different hole (and not because they were that bad at golf, mind you). Could benefit from more signage. But honestly the crammed layout is uncurable, even if you added 1000 more signs. Get ready to lose your balls—because of the crammed, narrow layout being bordered by brushland and creeks, balls get lost really easily.

Lastly, I think it's really important to point out that this establishment actively supports the police. There is a yard sign gracing the front of the "clubhouse" saying "We Support Sandy Springs Police". Given recent events, I do think this is an important fact to note on where your money is going if you are frequenting this course. For us, this was reason enough for us to know to take our money elsewhere.

Overall, I think this establishment is run by folks are good intentioned, but given the number of golfing options in the Metro Atlanta area, I think it's worth checking out...

A good course for beginners or those trying to get out and golf, but set your expectations low. First off the course is on a landfill, nothing wrong with that but it can smell on some holes. The only issue with this is that 18 holes are somewhat stuffed on this land and it is incredibly crowded.

However the employee at the start was incredibly rude. He sat in a golf cart and was barking at us from a distance that we needed to see him first. He was out of earshot and was not dressed like an employee, so by the time I realized what was going on and went over to him, he was pissed. He kept giving us a lot of attitude for zero reason, until we explained it was our first time there and started to give him an attitude. Finally he let us through after this altercation, which could have been avoided if he wasn’t too lazy to come over and explain things to me. He also told us that we weren’t allowed to bring our own beers on the course, and that we needed to buy some from their club. However I called ahead of time and asked if alcohol was allowed, to which the club representative on the phone said yes.

This same employee also seemed to be in charge of letting you go on your proper tee time, which was a complete disaster. Our tee time was at 3:20, which we showed up for on the dot and ready for. After dealing with the employee, we got to our tee and there were people teeing off that he admitted at our exact tee time. Whatever. There was a group of 6 behind us, which would have been a good pace to go infront of with our small group. By the time we teed off and got on the fairway, there were four separate people that were admitted ahead of the group of six, and they were set up at the tee box, and the group that was allowed to take our tee time was practically still on the green. They then let the group of six go right after. So by the time we finished our first hole, hole number one was backed up with 15 people in 10 minutes.

The course is also littered with high schoolers with zero respect, they will hole hop, take ages, and shout obscenities at you if you complement their put.

On the bright side, the course does not seem to be in that bad of shape. It is not that bad for the price, but everything else involved, I do not think it was worth the $40 for 9 holes.

Their driving range is nice/large, but I will not be returning to play rounds of golf here unless every other course in...

Ok so I went to this place to play an early morning round Tuesday at 730. The gentlemen told me that he could not match the GolfNow rate cause the point of the system was to reserve ahead of time. Seeing as I was one of two cars in the lot at that hour I figured he could make an exception, but I get it rules are rules I should of booked through the site. So I pay my green fee and head out. I should also note that I specifically checked their website to ensure this was not a Par 3 course. Once I get out there and look at the scorecard I quickly realize that the course consists of 2 par 4's and 1 par 5, the rest (15 HOLES) being par 3's. once again I can accept some fault for not researching exactly what an executive course meant. The actual play is where the true low ranking of my review comes from however. The course is very tightly laid out and extremely poorly marked. 80% of the holes you cannot see the green, which is understandable on a par 3 course, but they didn't even have signs out at the tee boxes depicting the layout of the holes or yardage. While this information is available on the scorecard, the teen box signs usually have some yardage for obstacles and sand traps which is useful information and how for the green is from the turn and so on. Most of the cart paths are also poorly marked and you have to guess which way to go to even get to the next hole. On top of that one of the two par 4's on the course was so badly maintained that I couldn't even tell which fairway was mine and which way I was supposed to drive. On the second par 4 I was excited to finally use a club that wasn't a 7,8,9 or wedge only to find a maintenance crew in the smack center of the fairway. I understand they need to do maintenance but once you see me, you could at least stop work and move your carts from the middle of the fairway so that I don't have to drive into the gully to the right of the green (this was a drivable par 4) to avoid hitting you, but the maintenance crew couldn't be bothered to stop their work and as such I had a wasted drive on one of the only two par 4's on the course. Long story short this course sucks, I could of gotten over some of the simple things and even take some responsibility, but the course flat out sucks and isn't worth the 25 bucks I...