Courses · Georgia

The Club At River Forest

Forsyth, Georgia · 18 holes · par 71 · Private. Opened 2004.

A caddie's yardage book for every hole: plays-like distance from USGS lidar elevation, reach and carry numbers for every bunker and water hazard, green front, middle and back, which way each green falls, and the lay-up zone on par 5s. Distances are from the back tees along the mapped hole; for a shorter tee, take off the scorecard difference.

Course profile

• At about 520 ft the ball carries about 1% farther than at sea level, so a 150-yard shot plays like about 149. Golfers visiting from low elevation should expect to club down.
• Biggest climb: hole 12, where the green sits 57 ft above the tee and plays about 19 yards longer.
• Biggest drop: hole 10, where the green sits 130 ft below the tee and plays about 43 yards shorter.
• Driving-zone hazards sit on the right on 8 holes and on the left on 4: a tee shot missed right costs more here.
• 13 greens tilt 2% or more. Each hole below says which side of the hole leaves an uphill putt.

Maps: tee at the bottom, green at the top. The dashed line is the mapped hole; the gold band is the lay-up zone; the arrow on the green points downhill.

Scorecard

Tees

Hole 1 · Par 4

397 (Blue) · 360 (White) · 348 (Green) · 246 (Red) yards · Handicap 12

Plays like

387-30 ft

Green · Blue tee

383 · 397 · 409front · middle · back

Green size

27 × 21yards deep × wide

Fairway

42 ydswide at 231

Green slope

2.5%falls to the front

In play

• Bunker right: 181 to reach, 290 to carry
• Bunker across the hole in front of the green: 377 to carry
• Bunker back-left of the green
• Bunker back of the green

Playing notes

• Plays about 10 yards shorter: the green sits 30 ft below the tee.
• Fairway bunkers on the right: 181 to reach, 290 to carry. Drives that finish short of 181 stay clear; otherwise the left side is the safer line off the tee.
• The fairway is about 42 yards wide at 231 and narrows to 34 at 281.
• The green is guarded on the left by bunkers; miss right.
• Bunkers short of the green; take enough club to carry it.
• The green falls from back to front, about 2.5%. Finish on the front side of the hole for an uphill putt.

Hole 2 · Par 4

357 (Blue) · 307 (White) · 290 (Green) · 266 (Red) yards · Handicap 18

Plays like

368+33 ft

Green · Blue tee

342 · 357 · 374front · middle · back

Green size

34 × 22yards deep × wide

Fairway

27 ydswide at 226

Green slope

4%falls to the front

In play

• Bunker right: 233 to reach, 270 to carry
• Bunker front of the green
• Bunker back-left of the green

Playing notes

• Plays about 11 yards longer: the green sits 33 ft above the tee.
• Fairway bunkers on the right: 233 to reach, 270 to carry. Drives that finish short of 233 stay clear; otherwise the left side is the safer line off the tee.
• The fairway is about 27 yards wide at 226 and narrows to 13 at 249.
• The green is guarded on the left by bunkers; miss right.
• Bunkers short of the green; take enough club to carry it.
• The green falls from back to front, about 4%. Finish on the front side of the hole for an uphill putt.

Hole 3 · Par 5

507 (Blue) · 480 (White) · 450 (Green) · 419 (Red) yards · Handicap 8

Plays like

482-75 ft

Green · Blue tee

490 · 507 · 527front · middle · back

Green size

41 × 30yards deep × wide

Fairway

22 ydswide at 235

Green slope

1.5%falls to the back-left

In play

• Bunker right: 206 to reach, 229 to carry
• Bunker right: 246 to reach, 269 to carry
• Bunker right: 444 to reach, 462 to carry
• Bunker across the hole in front of the green: 484 to carry
• Bunker left of the green

Playing notes

• Plays about 25 yards shorter: the green sits 75 ft below the tee.
• Dogleg left at about 382 yards.
• Fairway bunkers on the right: 206 to reach, 269 to carry. Drives that finish short of 206 stay clear; otherwise the left side is the safer line off the tee.
• The fairway is about 22 yards wide at 235.
• Best lay-up: 90 to 170 yards from the green, where the fairway is about 24 yards wide with no bunkers or water within 16 yards.
• The green is guarded on the left by bunkers; miss right.
• Bunkers short of the green; take enough club to carry it.
• The green falls from front-right to back-left, about 1.5%. Finish on the back-left side of the hole for an uphill putt.
• The green is 41 yards deep: a back pin can play about 3 clubs more than a front pin.

Holes 4 to 18

4 · Par 35 · Par 46 · Par 57 · Par 38 · Par 49 · Par 410 · Par 511 · Par 312 · Par 413 · Par 314 · Par 415 · Par 416 · Par 317 · Par 518 · Par 4

The rest of this guide has the same caddie detail for every hole:

• 15 plays-like yardages
• 47 hazards with reach and carry
• 14 green slope reads
• 2 par-5 lay-up zones

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Hole maps, hazards and playing notes come from mapped course data and USGS 3DEP elevation (public domain), not a visit. Plays-like numbers use the Skitty caddie's rule of one yard per 3 ft of rise, from the longest tee; altitude uses 1.16% of carry per 1,000 ft. Tees, hazards and conditions change; check with the course before you play. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0) via OpenGolfAPI. Scorecard yardages and ratings as published. See a mistake? Email [email protected].

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