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Calera, AL

Double Creek DGC

3.255(based on 2 reviews)
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Stormy Waters
Experience: 1 played 1 reviews
3.50 star(s)

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.

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.
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