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Double Creek DGC reviews
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Stormy Waters
Experience:
1 played
1 reviews
Fun course but not for beginners drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Jul 23, 2023
Played the course:once
Pros:
This course has some really nice and memorable holes. You can tell that, except for a couple of holes, a lot of thought went into the course design. It offers a good mix of wooded and open play and uses the natural terrain in some very clever ways. I'm certainly not a high-level player but I can see how this course would be a challenge even for very good players, especially from the back tees. Most holes also have middle and short tees if you're looking for something not quite so difficult, but even from the shorts this is not an easy course.
Cons:
Navigating the course can be a problem. It's quite a long walk from many baskets to the next tee, and although they have done a good job in many areas with paths to show you where to go, in a few places if you haven't been there before you're going to have to search for a while. #4 in particular is difficult to find if it is your first time.
In comparison to the rest of the course, which as I said I thought was well-designed, I found holes #9 and #10 to be pretty uninspired and annoying to play. #9 is 1100 feet from the long tees and 800+ from the middle, and it is nothing but a 20' strip of mown grass straight from the tees to the basket, with long (and I do mean long) grass on either side. #10 runs right along side it in the other direction and is the same thing except a couple hundred feet shorter. Miss the fairway on either hole and good luck finding your disc if they haven't cut the grass in a while. These holes would be more fun if the rough was cut down so that an errant throw is easier to find (and to be fair, about the time I started complaining to my daughter about how tall the rough was, a tractor showed up and started mowing the field that the course plays on and around). As it was we skipped these holes after we both lost a disc on #9 and figured if we kept going we would soon have no discs to throw at all. Now granted, we are beginners so extremely good players may get a kick out of these holes and find them a fair challenge, but for us it was too much.
In comparison to the rest of the course, which as I said I thought was well-designed, I found holes #9 and #10 to be pretty uninspired and annoying to play. #9 is 1100 feet from the long tees and 800+ from the middle, and it is nothing but a 20' strip of mown grass straight from the tees to the basket, with long (and I do mean long) grass on either side. #10 runs right along side it in the other direction and is the same thing except a couple hundred feet shorter. Miss the fairway on either hole and good luck finding your disc if they haven't cut the grass in a while. These holes would be more fun if the rough was cut down so that an errant throw is easier to find (and to be fair, about the time I started complaining to my daughter about how tall the rough was, a tractor showed up and started mowing the field that the course plays on and around). As it was we skipped these holes after we both lost a disc on #9 and figured if we kept going we would soon have no discs to throw at all. Now granted, we are beginners so extremely good players may get a kick out of these holes and find them a fair challenge, but for us it was too much.
Other Thoughts:
Complaints about #9 and #10 aside, I really enjoyed this course. It is hard, though, and requires some throws that a beginner and maybe even an intermediate player may not have in their bag, and is set up in such a way that if you miss those throws you stand a decent chance of losing a disc. A lot of that does depend on how long they have let the grass get, though.
9
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The Morning Dew Is Wetter Than The Creek
Reviewed:
Played on:Aug 6, 2022
Played the course:once
Pros:
-It's a new course in the Birmingham area that offers a blistering layout from the longs. The shorts are still pretty challenging for intermediate players. You'll be asked to hit lines less than 10' and throw some long bombs in the field while trying to avoid the tall grass. The mix of open and wooded is really good.
-Even from the blues, as difficult as they can get, some of the holes on that layout offer chances for redemption, since six of the holes only have one set of pads. Holes #1, #13, and #17 are all good birdie opportunities from the blues. All are under 300' and are at least relatively open. #1 is a simple downhill straight shot past a few trees. #13 was really neat, hidden behind a bush. It's open and short, but you have to hyzer around the bush and be able to curl around it quickly after to have a guaranteed birdie. #17 is open across the walking path. Bit of a safety hazard, but a nice change of pace.
-There's some uniqueness to it. #3 is a "V shaped" par four up an initial tight gap out of the woods and back into them. #8 is a neat par four with a whole lot of promise. Could be one of the most memorable holes in the area. From the long, it's a 600+ smash off a slightly elevated pad in the woods into the open and around a big bush. The second half of the hole takes you to the other side of the woods up a small and steep hill over a creek. Crossing the creek may seem easy at first sight, but it isn't. If you hit that hill past the creek, you'll roll right into it. The basket is a good 100' past the creek, so a birdie is very rewarding here. #12 was a beast! 784' par four around a cluster of trees with water in the very center. Past that cluster the fairway continues and rises about 25' in elevation before dropping back down 25' where the basket is located. You have to throw a big spike hyzer and hope to go past the cluster to have a fighting chance for par from the long. The short pad is past the cluster and still plays as a par four. Personally, I think it should be a par five from the long. You'd have to throw an impressive hyzer off the tee and throw up and over a pretty big hill completely straight to make a 3.
-Speaking of elevation, along with #12 you'll see a few other subtle changes. #15 is a blast from the long pad off the hill. #2 was a nice downhill wooded par three with the creek to the right side. There's not a ton of elevation here, but it is a factor.
-Pleasant atmosphere in the back side of a quiet park. Very safe and peaceful course with a wide variety of challenge.
-Dynamic Veteran baskets with red bands and blue rims. Nice tee pads and tee signs with good diagrams as well.
-Even from the blues, as difficult as they can get, some of the holes on that layout offer chances for redemption, since six of the holes only have one set of pads. Holes #1, #13, and #17 are all good birdie opportunities from the blues. All are under 300' and are at least relatively open. #1 is a simple downhill straight shot past a few trees. #13 was really neat, hidden behind a bush. It's open and short, but you have to hyzer around the bush and be able to curl around it quickly after to have a guaranteed birdie. #17 is open across the walking path. Bit of a safety hazard, but a nice change of pace.
-There's some uniqueness to it. #3 is a "V shaped" par four up an initial tight gap out of the woods and back into them. #8 is a neat par four with a whole lot of promise. Could be one of the most memorable holes in the area. From the long, it's a 600+ smash off a slightly elevated pad in the woods into the open and around a big bush. The second half of the hole takes you to the other side of the woods up a small and steep hill over a creek. Crossing the creek may seem easy at first sight, but it isn't. If you hit that hill past the creek, you'll roll right into it. The basket is a good 100' past the creek, so a birdie is very rewarding here. #12 was a beast! 784' par four around a cluster of trees with water in the very center. Past that cluster the fairway continues and rises about 25' in elevation before dropping back down 25' where the basket is located. You have to throw a big spike hyzer and hope to go past the cluster to have a fighting chance for par from the long. The short pad is past the cluster and still plays as a par four. Personally, I think it should be a par five from the long. You'd have to throw an impressive hyzer off the tee and throw up and over a pretty big hill completely straight to make a 3.
-Speaking of elevation, along with #12 you'll see a few other subtle changes. #15 is a blast from the long pad off the hill. #2 was a nice downhill wooded par three with the creek to the right side. There's not a ton of elevation here, but it is a factor.
-Pleasant atmosphere in the back side of a quiet park. Very safe and peaceful course with a wide variety of challenge.
-Dynamic Veteran baskets with red bands and blue rims. Nice tee pads and tee signs with good diagrams as well.
Cons:
-Many of the open holes have high grass and leave little space for the fairway. I think there's too much high grass. Especially on #10. The fairway is probably at most 30' wide and the hole is 871' from the long and 602' from the short, making it practically impossible for the flight of your driver to not cross over the weeds at some point. You could try and hyzer over the weeds and be left on the other side of them and try and hyzer and it doesn't hyzer left enough. Not to mention, if you play here especially in the mornings, your feet will shrivel like raisins. My feet were scrunched and I drove back barefooted because I couldn't take the weird feeling of my feet in my shoes. The weeds were a problem on the right side of #4 too. The clear cut is a narrow strip. To the left is the deep rough, which is probably as bad as the rough gets at Double Creek. The right side is full of tall grass. Very hard to get your disc to land in the clear area without skipping left into the woods.
-Still incomplete: #9 long. This is 1102' right out of the woods. The tee pad is incomplete and the gap to hit is not cleared yet. I played the white pad, as it is still a long hole (874'). If we lose some of the weeds on the edges of the fairway and clear out the first 30' then this will be a great par five that rewards players with distance. And #6. This was my least favorite hole. The line is almost pinball. There's no real line to the basket, especially from the long pad. The rough is very hard to escape from on this hole too, so it's a very aggravating hole that is hopefully just unfinished.
-Holes #17 and #18 cross the walking path. It's in play the entire way on #18.
-Still incomplete: #9 long. This is 1102' right out of the woods. The tee pad is incomplete and the gap to hit is not cleared yet. I played the white pad, as it is still a long hole (874'). If we lose some of the weeds on the edges of the fairway and clear out the first 30' then this will be a great par five that rewards players with distance. And #6. This was my least favorite hole. The line is almost pinball. There's no real line to the basket, especially from the long pad. The rough is very hard to escape from on this hole too, so it's a very aggravating hole that is hopefully just unfinished.
-Holes #17 and #18 cross the walking path. It's in play the entire way on #18.
Other Thoughts:
-It's a good course. I like Double Creek. With some more work put into it ahead of time, it will for sure be one of the best near Birmingham. It's pretty rough and I've heard some mixed feelings about it. Some people like it and others don't. I feel that it would be really harsh and honestly just unfair to say it isn't a good course because it is a good course. It's just a little untame. The lost disc potential is high due to heavy rough and weeds. It needs maintenance.
-I can see a lot of scoring separation even from the whites. If you can play it safe and dodge the worst parts of the rough and manage to throw accurate shots from tall grass, you'll probably score well on the shorts. Then again, the potential for trouble is almost just as likely as it is from the longs. So if you can't scramble from weeds or manage to hit most of the lines on the wooded holes, you might have a rough round here.
-#11 is that crazy tunnel shot that we haven't seen before in Birmingham. It's 235' down a 15' fairway and a 20' ceiling. The perimeter of the fairway doesn't exceed maybe any more than 70' at any given point on this wooded par three. I typically throw putters this distance and I threw a midrange with a high glide at a low height. Fair but intimidating hole. This is a 235' long "facade type" hole. I thought it was very cool! It's funny how you play a long 800+ par four before this one and the one after is another long par four around a group of trees that harbors water before throwing up a steep hill.
-With some work done, this could maybe be a prospect for the Magic City Mega Bowl in the next few years. It needs some love and some modifications but I'll be back to play it!
-I can see a lot of scoring separation even from the whites. If you can play it safe and dodge the worst parts of the rough and manage to throw accurate shots from tall grass, you'll probably score well on the shorts. Then again, the potential for trouble is almost just as likely as it is from the longs. So if you can't scramble from weeds or manage to hit most of the lines on the wooded holes, you might have a rough round here.
-#11 is that crazy tunnel shot that we haven't seen before in Birmingham. It's 235' down a 15' fairway and a 20' ceiling. The perimeter of the fairway doesn't exceed maybe any more than 70' at any given point on this wooded par three. I typically throw putters this distance and I threw a midrange with a high glide at a low height. Fair but intimidating hole. This is a 235' long "facade type" hole. I thought it was very cool! It's funny how you play a long 800+ par four before this one and the one after is another long par four around a group of trees that harbors water before throwing up a steep hill.
-With some work done, this could maybe be a prospect for the Magic City Mega Bowl in the next few years. It needs some love and some modifications but I'll be back to play it!
