Major kudos to the visionaries, designers, builders, and volunteers who made the Casey R. Logan (or OBX) DGC a reality. This is the only course on the Outer Banks, as far as I know, and it's well worth playing it if you are in the area.

+ My favorite aspect of this course is the design. A lot of thought was put into it, it's easy to see. There is a good mixture of hole layouts (straight, left, and right) and distances. Good use of the trees and topography.

+ This is a very unique piece of land for a DGC. First, it's basically in a swamp (I'll elaborate on that some in the Con's). There are trees and water to contend with -- then the course emerges from the swamp on hole 16 and you see the enormous sand dunes of Jockey's Ridge. It doesn't really feel like a beach course until this section of the track. It's a peaceful spot and I imagine wind is a constant challenge to contend with. Fittingly, since the Wright Brother's National Memorial borders the park, small prop planes fly low over the property pretty regularly. It's a neat spot.

+ The course is challenging, but for the most part, fair.

+ Navigation is simple and intuitive. No issues with course flow or missing signs. The tee signs are accurate and show the hole layouts.

+ New baskets

+ My 2.5 rating is somewhat aspirational. You'll see in the cons, there are a number of challenges to even having a course here. But the design is great and it's the only course for miles and miles around. So, I'm super grateful it's here.

If this course wasn't brand new and wasn't the only course on the Outer Banks, I probably would've given in a 2.0. But I think many of the challenges here can be overcome as the course is beaten in. If you're visiting the OBX, do your part and play it!

- No tee pads yet.The ground can get pretty muddy and the tee areas, especially, are slick.

- Lots of stumps and sticks to step over. Hopefully, with time, this will get taken care of as the course is beaten in.

- The number one con for me is water. The course was super soggy when I played. (I mean, it's no surprise, this is a swamp, after all.) There was standing water in between holes and on some fairways. And in several spots, there was no way to walk around the water and you have to test your tight-rope skills on trees and logs. The course desperately needs some bridges and boardwalks. I know that costs money and manpower, but hopefully that's something that can happen. This fix alone would probably bump this course to a 3.0 for me.

- I didn't deal with mosquitoes, but I played it in the winter. My sense is -- with the standing water, the swamp, and even just the location at the beach -- mosquitoes will be a big problem in the warmer months. There's no fix for this other than to wear long sleeves and pants and put on bug spray. If you have the option to play in the winter, that's probably a better time to experience this course.

- As with most new, wooded courses, there are a few more trees that could/should probably get taken out. Not too many. Overall, it's challenging and fair. But there are a few poke and hope holes.

- One design piece I didn't understand was making the short tees the white tees and the long tees the red tees. As far as challenge goes, I thought the short tees were about white level (intermediate), so they're not misnamed, but the long tees should've been blue (advanced) instead of red (rec).

Again, major props to the folks who made this course happen. Considering what they had to work with, it's great. It'll take a lot more work to make this course a 3.0 or even higher, in my book, but considering what the OBX DG Club has done so far, I wouldn't bet against them.