In Volume 2 of The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, Tom Doak published that:

“When you have done as many designs as Tom Fazio, it is perhaps inevitable that people stereotype your work, but Forest Creek tends to buck those preconceptions with its low-profile design and occasional central hazard. Wide off the teem the challenge stiffens at a fine set of greens, with two greens that fall away from the line of play at the 4^th and 8th."

The South Course at Forest Creek received two scores of 6 out of 10 and one score of 7 from Tom Doak’s co-authors.