Charlie Yates Golf Course - Atlanta, Georgia

Fabrizio G.

UPDATED Review: Updating to 5 stars now that the course, specifically the greens, are in MUCH better shape than last year. I had to stop playing here last year because some of the greens were mostly bare dirt and unplayable. I decided to give it a shot again recently and the difference is night-and-day. I’ll definitely be playing here more often!

Original Review:
Nice public course but overpriced for the quality and the fact it’s just 9 holes. It’s a fun and scenic course but the some of the greens seriously need a lot of work, even after the recent renovation.

Ethan P.

Pace of play is abysmal. Even with 10 minute tee time spacing, the lack of a starter or Marshall on the course allows slow play to clog the course. 2 hour and 40 minute round for a Par 30 9-hole course is unacceptable. Slow play begets slow play and the course does not take any measures to alleviate the wait times. The range is good though. Given who owns this course, there is no financial reason why a starter or Marshall cannot be employed.

Seyoung G.

East lake에는 못 가서 그 대안으로 플레이한 코스. East lake가 만든 퍼블릭 코스입니다.
관리가 잘 되어 있고, 아기자기한 맛이 있습니다. 마지막 세 개 홀은 고저차가 좀 있어서 걸어서 플레이하기에 약간 힘이 듭니다. 파3 홀이 많다는 점은 아쉽습니다.
프로샵에 East lake 기념품(모자)도 조금 있습니다.

수비니

그린 및 필드가 관리가 잘 되어있는곳
골프채 렌트는 풀클럽 기준 20달러 상태는 안좋음 브랜드는 없는 클럽 그리고 정규홀이 아니라서 파3 위주로있음 카트 및 그린상태는 좋음! 같은 가격이면 정규홀로 가서 치는게 더 좋을 것 같습니다~ 9홀이지만 그냥 파3 입니다.

Justin B.

Best 9 Holer I've played. Great walk, variety in holes. Take your buddies, and get out of traffic until dark! Wish this was in my home town. They need more water coolers on the course, that's the only downfall.

Kory K.

I’ll start by saying I love this course. Learned to play golf here, I keep going even as an intermediate (still challenging), and I go to their range at least once a week. They are always friendly, outgoing, and the course is perpetually in great shape. Today I had an unpleasant experience with their Marshall, and am just hoping they will see this review to resolve any further unnecessary encounters and help streamline their process.

My playing partner and I are on the 1st tee, and it’s backed up pretty bad. We end up teeing off about 15 minutes after our tee time (no big deal), but the Marshall comes up to us and asks what time we had reserved as there was a significant build up of groups on the 1st tee box due to some slow groups ahead - not super uncommon in Atlanta golf. I told him our time and he was very confused. I never really got an answer as to why our being there made no sense to him but he wouldn’t let us tee off without a paper receipt. Charlie Yates has an online reservation system, and I checked in/paid up online this time. I stopped by the pro shop to make sure that I was all good to go - the front desk said, “Yep, enjoy your round!” The Marshall was really stuck on the fact that I didn’t have a physical receipt on my person, and I asked him to go back to the clubhouse to confirm our time as we only had a couple of hours of daylight to get the round started/finished. He comes back and still tells us they don’t have any reservations on my specific time. Didn’t ask for any information other than my tee time - which should’ve been enough but if you’re skeptical that I didn’t pay then get my name, number, etc.

At this point I’m just really confused, and a bit angry because we now are 30 minutes past our tee time. There were 3 groups on the 1st tee, but he didn’t make anyone go back to the pro shop but me and my buddy. He wouldn’t listen to anything we had to say, and only would tell us “I need a receipt.” And word for word told us, multiple times, this is your problem - figure it out. I ended the conversation with him, and he kept riding beside me in his cart just saying “this is your problem.” I understand sir, I do not want to keep going back and forth with you over this.

As soon as we get back in the pro shop, the front desk recognizes me/that I checked in and the Marshall just says “You can decide whether you want to let them play or not.” I confirmed the tee time (again), it’s now 40 minutes past - I convince them to let us play a few minutes little later than usual to try and finish the round. I did ask for a refund for the inconvenience + the fact that we wouldn’t be able to compete the full round, but I didn’t get that request fulfilled. It’s a pretty expensive 9 hole course, your Marshall has no way of checking reservations correctly, and we didn’t get to play the full round unfortunately. Not to mention that he brought a completely non existent problem to us and then made us resolve it.

My hope is that Charlie Yates will see this, and implement any minor change so this doesn’t happen to other people. Give the guy a walkie talkie back to the pro shop, an iPad to check the reservations…anything. Funny enough, this is the first time in over a year that I have encountered a Marshall that was actually checking on tee times, or whatever this guy was trying to do. Frankly, the most frustrating thing was that the man couldn’t get a simple reservation confirmation figured out on his own - or accept any confirmation on my phone other than a paper receipt…and then tell the players who were just pushed back almost an hour that it’s “your problem” that I can’t figure it out. Guess what…there are 3 groups backed up on the 1st tee right now because you aren’t doing your job and keeping up pace of play. Don’t pick out a random group and make them get off because you’re confused and don’t know what’s going on. You may have already guessed this but I did not get an apology from the Marshall after I went back and confirmed the tee time in front of him.

Christopher W.

Really great course with amazing staff. I recently moved to town and was struggling to find a place to golf and take my kids as I work from home and have at least one of them with me at all times. Apparently any course run/operated by the city of Atlanta will not allow kids under 7 on the course. The people at Charlie Yates were extremely kind and welcoming of me and my kiddos even offering them an extra youth club if they wanted to drop and play with me on the course. Highly recommend this place.

Stephanie O.

Beautiful- I was simply driving past the course and was filled with envy. I think it would be a really amazing experience to be able to play around to golf on your golf course. Because from the outside looking in it is gorgeous #slay