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!!