Possibly the best "next tee" signs of any course I've played. If you can find the first tee then just follow the 8 1/2 x 11" signs near the baskets and they will easily lead you to the next tee. Half way through my wife was leading us from hole to hole. If you knew her and her ability to navigate anywhere you'd know that speaks volumes to how well the course is marked.

None of the holes felt repetitive. While I'm sure some holes played similarly, overall it just felt like almost every hole was a little unique.

Water in play on one hole but crossing over should be easy for all but the most novice throwers.

Nice restrooms are water fountains by hole one and then again somewhere between hole eight and nine should you need them.

Being outside of the Charlotte area it seems this course doesn't get a lot of traffic so if you want a relaxing round without the crowds it may be worth the drive.

Heavy rubber tees. I had no issues with them but I always prefer concrete. I do think they could be slick when wet but it was dry when I played.

If you want to throw bombs this isn't the course for that. There are a couple of longer holes but the fairways are shaped funky and they're in the woods so accuracy and placement is more important than distance.

Although very easy to navigate due to excellent signage, there were a couple of transitions between holes that felt excessively long. Generally the course flowed well but there were a couple of spots where it didn't.

Water in play on one hole and could potentially come into play on another hole. I see this as a positive but some may not like the potential for losing a disc.

Generally fun. Relatively easy with the exception of maybe three holes. Bathrooms and water at the start and roughly the hallway point is nice. Maybe the easiest course ever to navigate due to awesome and plentiful signs.

A scenic course with some quirky shapes and almost enough challenge to be very good.

-Amenities: A lot of thought put into these. The tees are gravel (the biggest con), but boxes are clearly marked, tee signs have all the info, and the DISCatchers are solid. Plus, copious next tee signage, a practice basket, and signs that clearly read "Disc golf, not a trail."

-Navigation: The best I've experienced for a while. Paths, signs, and intuitive placement make it a breeze to get through the course.

-Beauty: Highly rated. The woods are secluded and thick throughout, and the gorgeous lake views from (8)-(10) remind me of the best parts of the IDGC.

-Shot Shaping/Gameplay: A fair woods challenge with some unusual shapes. Hole (2) is the only non-heavily wooded hole, but among the trees the variety is still good. There are some shorter birdie opportunities, but more common are difficult shapes such as deep doglegs or long tunnel fairways with narrow gaps. Sometimes these seem to push the border of fairness, but more often I find them difficult and unique, requiring unusual disc manipulation. One water crossing on (8) is a great touch. The back half is more interesting, with an equal mix of par-4s and -3s. The par-4s are short, but they're tricky and technical and may not yield easy birdies. The elevation makes every line more interesting in this concluding stretch, as well.

-Unusual Shapes: The lines out here are a bit weird. This can be interesting, but more often extremely frustrating. Some sharp doglegs and extremely specifically graded turns require you to stretch the fairway and hope that you don't scrape the back edge, which is particularly difficult for a first-timer.

-Tightness & Scrambling: I don't mind a tight course, but Cane Creek has the killer combo of being tight and being very difficult to scramble on. This means that a tee mistake often puts you with no real line to the basket, a frustrating predicament.

-Length: I would like to see a bit of the tightness traded for length out here. It would be nice to throw a full throw down a woods line, rather than feeling like you have to saw it off to get a precise shape.

-All Woods: No open holes after (2). Not a big con.

-No 9 & 9: This course doesn't return to its start until after the bitter end. Even then, it's a decent walk back to the original parking lot.

-Summer Condition? I feel like this is one that may get way harder in the summer. Add a layer of leaves to the maze of trunks, and this could cross the line some.

Cane Creek is beautiful and cared for well. It's got an eccentric collection of shots on the shorter end, which could easily provoke different responses. For me, it provokes a rating of Good. This is a solid course that, with a bit more fairness in line, could raise itself to a 3.5 and make my list of favorites. As is, it's worth checking out.

Located in Cane Creek Park is this fun, this 18 hole wooded course has DISCatcher baskets, crushed gravel tees, and a practice basket. The park offers an assortment of amenities, including restrooms, ball fields, fishing, disc golf, a campground (across the lake), paddling, etc.

Seven of the holes on this course have long tees, allowing players of different skill levels to choose how difficult of a day they'd like to have. The course also features a water carry on Hole 9, which is short enough that even beginners can possibly get across, but fun enough to still stay memorable.

The lines here are tight, but the holes aren't very long - so accuracy is the name of the game. Clean drives will often result in a birdie putt - especially early on in the course. While the overall layout is relatively flat, it does seem like the little elevation that was available was used very well.

The course is surrounded by signs indicating that the fairways are not walking trails and are in fact disc golf fairways. This is something that is greatly appreciated, and likely helps keep hikers off the fairways, which is nice since there are a few blind fairways. In fact, the signage overall was fantastic. There were tee signs on every hole, the tees were well marked with whether they were long or short tees, and there was more than adequate navigational signage to help find the next hole.

I am not sure how much the course has changed, but I quite enjoyed Hole 16. If the course is tracked in some and the fairway widened, I agree that it could be called a Par 4 - but as it currently stands I thought it was one of the better holes on the course. The course also started and finished with really fun holes.

Course felt very FH favored to me. While I did not necessarily mind this, as I tend to favor FH when playing wooded holes of this distance, it felt like an uneven mix of FH holes compared to BH holes. I would have rather the course tried to mix it up a little more. I don't think I threw a backhand off the tee until Hole 8.

The course also had a few moments where it was hard to tell who the course was designed for. Holes 15 & 16 stood out to me as likely being two of the harder holes on the course. Hole 15 in particular - which at 400 feet long with multiple bends in the fairway felt incredibly out of place as a Par 3 compared to the rest of the course. Hole 16 felt similar, but was at least called a Par 4. Even the short version of Hole 16, which was only 360 feet, was called a Par 4, which further made Hole 15 feel like the black sheep of the course.

There were many long transitions between holes on this course. Likely due to the land that was given to the designer, and the desire to create a loop for the course to play through. This wasn't a huge issue to me, but it does make the course play a lot longer than similar courses would. Coupled with the fact that we only saw one bench along the entirety of the course, it could feel like a slog for people who aren't in the best of shape.

I am going to rate Cane Creek a solid 3.0 - this is a fun course set in a beautiful park with many different activities park goers can partake in before or after their round. The park sets up nicely for an action packed day/weekend and definitely worth a visit if you are from the nearby area. It is set up nicely for beginners & intermediate players, but the lines are tight enough that advanced players will still have their share of fun.

Favorite Holes: 6, 9, 14, 18

Cane Creek is sprawled out in a lightly used area of Cane Creek Park. This has the makings of a great, out-of-the-way course, making it worth the drive.
- An almost exclusively wooded course. Darn you hole #2 and your filler existence. Being a wooded course, you get all the good and bad aspects of that: everything from being heavily shaded to run ins with wildlife.
- Course gets progressively better. Take advantage of the first five holes all being birdie chances before you get to the course's longest hole, #6 at 522 feet. Despite being the longest, I felt it might be the course's worst.
- By the time you get to hole #8, you get your first look at the lake. Enjoy it being a scenic backdrop on this hole, for it's in play on the next two holes. #9 has you throwing over the water, a very common trope of throwing over a small corner of water back to the basket far on the other side. On #9 & 10, the water isn't a factor unless you hit a tree/branch and get a bad bounce, or just throw your shot WAY, WAY, WAY too far right. Me? I got a double bouncer on #10 and had my disc sink in the water 15 feet out. In December, that disc suffered a hypothermic demise.
- The back 9 is fantastic. Really, from #8 - 16 is a fantastic, more advanced layout; while, the other nine holes (#1-7 & 17-18) are the easier layouts. The most creative layouts are the back nine. The first seven holes are all relatively forgetful, or wanted to be forgotten - #6.
- The course is relatively flat, but it does use elevation smartly when it is used. Most of it is the simpler straight up or straight down layouts - #1, for example. #11 - 13 give you a great taste of smart elevation layouts.
- #11 is an uphill, sharp dogleg right layout. It's only 260 feet, but feels much longer because of its design. Play it conservatively and you should have an easy 3. Try to be aggressive, and you'll be trying to salvage a 4.
- #12 is a longer layout - 376 feet - with a dogleg left starting halfway down the fairway. Course is flat until the green, with a steep drop-off in the couple feet around the basket. It makes a simple approach shot suddenly extremely daunting.
- #13 is a short hole - 203 feet - that plays over a valley. In the winter, the leaves stopped my disc from rolling downhill. In the summer, probably not. A fun, simple layout.
- Fantastic park overall. This is probably the best, close campground Charlotteans have been using forever. When we want to go camping, but don't want to go far, it's been Cane Creek for decades. The park has everything you could want for a family weekend getaway - from swimming and mini golf - to fishing and running trails. You're out in the middle of nowhere, but still 15 minutes from anything you need in Waxhaw.
- 'THIS IS NOT A WALKING TRAIL.' I absolutely loved the amount of warning signs throughout the course telling walkers to get off the course. For as much as the course and its paths intertwined with the walking trails, this was wonderful. Now, if we could get signs like this on some of the Charlotte courses, I'd be even happier.

The course still needs to be smoothed out. A lot of awkwardly angled/designed holes. A lot of narrow fairways that will feel narrower when the leaves are on trees. A lot of long walks between holes. A lack of tee signs, benches, or trash cans on the course.
- The course feels like it teeters back and forth between who it's designed for. As mentioned above, it feels like a tail of two 9-hole layouts (1-7 & 17,18 vs 8-16. One of them offers most of the birdie chances; the other offers the challenge.
- If you break it down, the shorter nine is 2477 feet; the longer is 2950, an average difference of 52 feet per hole.
- I played in December, when the leaves were down, and a lot of the holes still felt tight. I was able to take advantage of the lack of leaves on the trees. For the other 8 months a year, this would be a tight course without those bail out lines.
- Too many blind holes for a course of this length and skill level. Without tee signs, I ended up throwing putter off the tee on some of the longer holes, such as #6, and just kept on following the bends in the fairway. All that said, never threw a shot longer than 200 feet and still ended up with an easy par 5.
- Layout doesn't seem like it's optimized. I get why #1 was built - the classic tight, downhill hole. But, because of that, you have a couple filler holes around the outside of a baseball field. With as much great terrain being unused, there's a valid argument to eliminate the first several holes (at least the first 3) and replace them with better land. That would keep the entire course (and parking) on one side of the park service road. More important, it would eliminate some of the ridiculously long walks. The walk from #6 to 7 alone, could be filled with two holes.
- Natural tee pads. A couple weren't completely flat. Throw in wet, slick leaves and I wasn't risking full run-ups on any hole.

I enjoyed Cane Creek more and more throughout my round. Hole #1 was a great start. The next couple holes were ho-hum. After a frustratingly long walk from #6 to 7, the course finally hit its stride.
- The course is out there. Charlotte disc golfers aren't known to travel outside of the county. So, driving this far out means Cane Creek won't be getting a lot of play. (It's a long 35-40 minutes past Elon Park). Organizers will have to get creative with tourneys, taking advantage of the camping, to make this course known.
- I want to see the course make the necessary improvements. Tee signs and tee pads are a must, preferably sooner rather than later. Benches would be nice, especially near the lake. If I'm going to rest, I want to soak in some great views.
- The course, in and of itself, is excellent. I enjoyed an overwhelming majority of the holes. It's all the other 'stuff' that was frustrating. When you're taking long walks through the woods, transitioning from one hole to the next, you notice all this unused space. When this unused space has much more elevation than the filler holes, you can't help but think.
- This is another solid Union County course. Just like Wingate and Dry Creek, this is a great play. It's just so far out of the way. You can play the pitch-n-putt Waxhaw course a couple miles up the road. Otherwise, take advantage of everything else Cane Creek has to offer and make it a fun outdoor day.

The course has very clear markers to the next tee. There is one hole on the back 9 that is over the lake and is a fun hole to play. Plenty of signs that say, "This is not a trail, but is for disc golfers." Most of the course is away from heavy foot traffic

Many of the holes have very narrow fairways. The tees are made from gravel. The distance markers show distance but do not show a graphic of the hole design. You have to pay to get into the park and therefore need to pay to play. There are many stumps on the course, which hopefully will be removed in the future. A few trees in the fairway, really should not be there.

There are only 2 1/2 holes that are not in the woods. The course is strangely designed, in my opinion, and I am not sure the person who designed it is a disc golf aficionado. I would think with the land available to the park, that it could have designed a much better course. That's why I rate it only 3.0
There is not one par 5. This is a disappointment. Hopefully locals will be able to purchase a year round pass to play.