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Ahoskie, NC

Ahoskie Creek

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pmay5
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Experience: 21 years 484 played 248 reviews
3.50 star(s)

An open, Bomber park course? 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 3, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

Good DISCatcher baskets, most had flags on top which are very useful on this course.
Good concrete tee pads on every hole. Most holes had short and Long tees.
Some tees had good descriptive tee signs, with distance, par and layout, others had just distance and par. But they were easy to spot on this course.
Mostly open holes with a lot of distance. Several of these holes had enough old growth trees to make you shape your shot and think about your approach to the basket.
The holes move around the perimeter of the park, so very little chance of interference from others. A couple of holes are near the creek, which is large for a creek, but little chance of losing a disc there.
For a little variety, there is a double Mando on one of these and two elevated baskets, one on a mound and one DGPT pyramid style.

Cons:

I never did find a basket for #15. There was a tee and tee sign showing the path into thick woods, but walking the fairway, I never saw a basket. I skipped to #16.
I don't recall any benches or trash cans on the course. I have no problem packing out what I pack in, but you know many don't. With a course this long and spread out, several benches would really come in handy, this course involves a lot of walking.
#4 - as good as the hole is, you have to walk more than the length of it to get to the tees. #3 is laid out as a very good left to right hole, but if the basket was to the left, this would shorten the walk to #4's tees.
With the proximity to Ahoskie Creek, and low lying land, I imagine this gets, and stays, wet after significant rains.

Other Thoughts:

I had not heard much about Ahoskie Creek before coming here, its in a small town in the NE part of North Carolina, so I wasn't expecting a wide open bomber course. But that is exactly what it is. This appears to be another case were a neighborhood has been flooded by a nearby creek, so the authorities bought out the residents and made it a park.
With so many top level courses in the state being mostly wooded, it was great finding a quality course with mostly open holes. While the first 10 holes were mostly open, there were trees or obstacles on most of these to require shot shaping.
A small, mostly dry, creek along #5 forces you away from the left side, but two trees guard the basket on the right.
A double mando (at a 60 degree angle) across the fairway of #8 puts a lot of pressure on the drive.
Even #10, the longest at 800 or 900' has a couple of trees right at the tees and a tree guarding the basket.
Then you get into the scattered woods, #11 has a lot, a little on #13, #14 is elevated on a pyramid with two lines through the trees. After you flirt with the woods on #16, #17 is a double dogleg Par 4 bordered by thick rough. The final hole (when I was there) has a sharp left to right turn (from the short tee) to a basket further on, planted in a 4 tree clump, a great, unique pin placement.
As I mentioned, when I visited Ahoskie there were 18 (17 ?) holes, but the walk back to the car was through a clearing in the woods that felt like a fairway. At the end of the that was another basket, labeled #20. I now see on UDisc that there are 22 holes laid out. The additional holes are in the woods (and possibly a clearing) around the original 17 and 18. Finishing with the fairway I walked as #22, that ends in a clearing at the opposite of the parking lot from #1. So these additional holes really help balance that open to wooded mix that is always fun to evaluate.
Many of the open holes require straight shots with not a lot of doglegs, but shot shaping through the trees will help your score. The only elevation on the entire course is a 12' mound that #12 is on, very dangerous putt with it exposed to the wind.
A really fun course to play if you want to get out of the woods, and you have a roller game. Definitely a pleasant surprise to find this quality of a course. There is obviously an active club involved and is on at least 1 tournament series. Well done Ahoskie!!
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JakedaSnake
Experience: 15.2 years 37 played 3 reviews
3.50 star(s)

What pro-level in Ahoskie? 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 30, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Ahoskie doesn't have the greatest reputation, but I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this course. I ventured out here after finding other reviews. There's not much going on the in the town, but this course is the best attraction to the area without a doubt. Clear signs at every hole with distance, par, and directions to the next tee. Separate tees for pro and am, except for a few with good reason. Distances and obstacles at pro tees are a great challenge. Not too heavily wooded, but 17 & 18 are in wooded areas that are a perfect way to end the course.

Cons:

Other people venturing on the course! This happened to me a few times because I don't think too many people play here and the individuals walking across were just too ignorant to know any better. A walking path actually crosses through the fairway at 9, which is a reasonable excuse, but some people were just walking through the fairway at multiple holes. There is a ditch running through the front 7 that presents some difficulties just trying to cross back and forth over. The real challenge is the creek running on the left of holes 9 through 13, but this provides some nice scenery. Not much elevation difference. Finally, just getting into the park. There are multiple entrances, but most were locked. I eventually found the right access near the medical center to begin playing near the baseball fields.

Other Thoughts:

Be sure to take a right at the medical center on Hwy. 42, but be careful of the extreme dip at the intersection. Still stunned that such a superb course exists in this location.
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Cardinal
Experience: 8.2 years 8 played 5 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Ahoskie Creek is a nice course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 25, 2016 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Ahoskie Creek is a flat open course with trees all in the right places to make it challenging but open enough to really launch your discs. The baskets are protected by towering oaks, pines, sweet gums, and some water hazards. Hole 10 boasts a 771 ft par five and 17 is really narrow and forces you to use a mid range accurately. This is a great course to cut your teeth on. I am proud to call it my home course.

Cons:

The back nine is definately harder but hole 18 is a little lame as a finishing hole. The grass sometimes is high on the back 9 and can appear a little snakie.

Other Thoughts:

Ahoskie Creek is definately worth the drive to play. Check out a few of pics of the course.
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