All baskets are in great shape. Course is well maintained. It's mostly open with a few tree holes. Water comes into play on the left on 3 holes. Good tee boxes for the white and blue tees.

Red tees not marked on most holes. Back nine is very open and not as interesting as the front nine.

This course is for IBM employees, retirees and their families.

Good baskets, Blue tees are well marked with signs, good flow of holes.
Probably one of the most open courses in the Triangle area. Only about 5 holes where trees are major obstacles. Several others have trees for shot shaping, but not heavy woods.
Good mix of left, right and straight holes. Not a lot of elevation available since it is their campus athletic complex, but they did use what is there. #6, #7 and #10 are some of the best.
Good mix of hole distances also, 210 - 400, and everything in between.
For the most part, the course stays away from other uses on the property. #1,2 and 8 cross a walking path, but one that is probably not used frequently. Most of back 9 are on remote parts of the property.

MANY signs posted that the facility is for IBM staffers and families only. Kind of disappointing since its in a great location in the middle of the Triangle and it doesn't look like the outside facilities get a lot of activity. I didn't have any problems playing on the Sunday morning I was there.
The Blue tees are a rough gravel and a little tough to deal with. Had to tee beside them on a few holes.

Overall a fun course to play. As I mentioned in the Pros, thinking back, and thinking about all the courses around the Triangle, this is probably the most open course. Lots of chances to bomb on holes, others that just require shot shaping and the adreniline rush of two pretty large water carries. Both of those are pretty open as well, so you don't have to carry the water, then hit a gap.
Its a fairly windy course also, especially the open holes on the back 9 (10-13) and the two water holes. Since those two go in opposite directions, you will probably have to deal with different wind conditions.
As I understand it, the course was developed over a few years, they started with tone poles (and probably just 9 holes) and just marked tees, now they have added good DISCatchers and formal tees. Next, I understand they want to put in cement tees, that will greatly enhance this course, especially from the Blue tees.
I have not played all the Corporate campus courses in the area, but this is definitely the best I have played and also the only 18 hole course. Good job Big Blue!!

The IBM RTP track is easily the best corporate course in the Triangle. That said, it has some room for growth and could be a great course, corporate or not.

Here are my rankings of the 5 corporate campus courses in RTP:

1. IBM - 3.0 (only 18-hole track of the bunch)
2. SAS - 2.0
3. LORD - 1.5
4. RTI - 1.5
5. Cisco - 1.0 (aka Marcom Woods)
6. Lenovo - 1.0

+ 18-hole course with nice, new baskets and three sets of tees: red (very short rec layout), blue (probably more intermediate than advanced), and black (playing the course in reverse).

+ The blue tees are long enough to give intermediate to advanced players room to really bomb drives. If you can throw 350+, you'll destroy this course.

+ Good use of the property: elevation, a pond, well-placed guardian trees, fair layout.

+ The campus is well-maintained: grass is cut, no trash anywhere, looks nice.

+ Excellent, descriptive tee signs. Navigation is pretty easy, despite some criss-crossing fairways.

+ While every hole is very wide open, there is variety in terms of distance, straight, hyzer, and anhyzer lines.

+ Good use of guardian trees and large bushes on several holes. There is also a mando hole that forces a straight drive on an otherwise wide-open hole. They've done a good job adding some technicality to an otherwise open course.

+ Nice risk/reward elements on the couple of holes near the pond. There are shorter tees for players who do not want to throw long water-carry drives.

While I think the course is well designed, good layout, and well maintained, I do think there is some rating inflation here. In my humble opinion, this is not a 4.0-level course (i.e. one of the best courses in the Triangle). It's a good course, but not a destination course. As I said, it's a great corporate course and the employees and guests of IBM are lucky to have it, but we shouldn't get carried away. I probably had it underrated for too long. (I updated from 2.5 to 3.0.)

- Natural tees. For a long course where you can bomb drives, it stinks to have natural grass tees. Hopefully, this is something that can be added.

- Goose poop. A gaggle of geese has claimed this property. Watch your step.

- Hole 6, while a fun change of pace (slight downhill, short, tunnel shot), is way too close to a secondary road.

- This course has lots of tweener holes, in my opinion, for intermediate throwers. The red tees are way too short, so most people will play the blues. Yes, blue tees are meant for advanced players (and I'll admit, I'm not an advanced player), but the advanced players I know would tear this course up. It's just so open and doesn't throw too many challenges at that level of player. So, if the target audience is intermediate players, I go back to my assertion that there are lots of tweener holes: 325-400 foot holes that are pretty wide open. But if you can only drive it 300 feet on a good day, you're looking at legit birdie tries here and there, but lots of holes where birdie is out of reach, but par is a cinch. In other words, lots of easy pars, little scoring separation on each hole for a good drive and a bad drive. (With my review, consider that I can only throw it about 300 or so. If you can throw farther, you might like it. But then again, I think if you can throw it farther, you'll probably think this course is too easy.)

If you get a chance to play with an IBMer, go for it. (NOTE: this is a private course and you are not allowed to play without permission.) This is a good course with the potential to be better (with tees). And if you like wide open layouts where you can rip, you'll really like it.

- more open course and therefore different than other courses in the area
- good for beginner and experienced players
- good variety of holes that require you to be versatile with your shots
- short holes in the beginning and longer ones on the second half, allows you to warm up well
- long course in all so plenty of walking
- nice map next to fitness building with a layout of the course

- Biggest thing is there are no tees. Hopefully they install some
- not officially open to non-ibm employees (although i have played it multiple times with no issues and even talked with a security gaurd)
- lots of goose poop
- red tees are difficult to find in the grass as they are simply submerged rocks with the top side painted red

I'm not an IBM employee, but I live 3 miles away and have been wanting to try this course out since I saw the baskets up by the road. I went ahead and did it anyways, a security guard drove through and definitely saw us and did absolutely nothing. It was a Saturday also and there was absolutely no one else there too. I will be going back this weekend

- 18 DisCatcher Pro 28 baskets
- One elevated basket
- This 18 hole course is mostly open (not in the woods) with few chances to randomly hit a tree. Still, most holes have a challenge that require a well-placed shot.
- There is a good mix of left turn and right turn shots to keep it interesting.
- There are several shots over or near water that make it challenging.
- Well-placed mandos make several holes more challenging.
- Several holes are fun ace runs.
- Most holes allow to go full strength on the drives.

- No cement or graded tee pads yet. These are still in plan. But it currently makes for some awkward footwork and slippery tee shots.
- Signage not posted yet (I know these have been created and just need installed
- Signage still says IBM employees only, but we've had plenty of people join us

I play this course several times a week during lunch and never get bored of it.

*Disclaimer: I'm also one of the course designers and helped to install it with other volunteers.

This is a well designed course that makes the most out of the space available.
There is a good mix of holes. Most holes are wide open, but there are a few narrow holes, three over or near water, some with elevation changes, and some that favor right and left handed players.
IBMers just installed brand new DISCatcher(R) Pro 28 baskets on all the holes. Before that you could only hit a pole with a PVC pipe over it.

Being located next to a small lake, there is goose poop scattered about all the holes.
No cement tees; the tees are on the grass with red and blue markers. This really isn't an issue unless it's really wet. Update 2/11/19 - Gravel tee boxes were installed on all holes except 14; waiting on permits to install a ramp there.
Since this course is almost all open, there is little shade on those hot summer days.

This course is not open to the public, you need to either work on the IBM campus, or find an IBMer to play with.

* Golf course feel to several of the holes.
* Different than most of the local courses, in that it's not through the woods.
* 2 water holes (with a third hole for which there is an over water shortcut). Update: Even when I'm taking the overland/hyzer approach I've ended up in the water a few times on 17. There are definitely 3 water holes.
* Some of the holes are absolutely gorgeous
* There are 3.5-4 versions fo the course to play.
- Blue (primary)
- Red (basically beginner version of blue)
- Black (same baskets, played 18->1. The tee locations make the holes completely different to the blue course - apart from blue 4/black 15, which is very similar.)
- Safari (in U-disc - much longer version of the course, with several par 4s and a couple of par 5s. This is the best version of the course, but some baskets are reused and some aren't used at all. It's definitely not a version that would support more than two groups at a time.)

* Temporary baskets / natural tees. Update: Actual baskets! Still natural tees though, which can be slippery. Update update: Now the blue course has tee boxes or concrete for all but one hole (14). I've upgraded my rating based on the two biggest strikes being addressed.
* Congestion for holes 3-5. If the course is crowded this could become an issue, but it's not often crowded.
* The holes have a clear intended shape for how each hole should be played (which is good), but a particularly awful first shot generally just means that your second shot is longer. A bad shot isn't punished as hard as it could be if more obstruction were available.

* Update: Discs started disappearing from the pond recently. It used to be the case that I'd eventually get a call that my disc had been retrieved. I don't know if shittier people are now pulling out discs and not returning them, or if I've just gotten worse about throwing deeper into the pond.)

The front side has more elevation changes than the backside (though it's generally a gradual and consistent slope, apart from the hole 7 which is varied and steep in some places). The backside has more variety, but there are groupings of similar holes.

It's my favorite course to play in the area, by a wide margin. This is largely because of how most of the courses have been carved through woods whereas this course was planned around a park. It's very beginner friendly because of the openness, but it's also got enough distance and danger to challenge an experienced and capable player.

There are enough straight, left and right tee shots of varying lengths here to give you plenty of variety.
Most local courses are much more heavily wooded which makes the course different than the local normal.
We've recently installed new tee pads so there is no more throwing off the bare ground.
The holes around the pond are beautiful holes and hole 17 has an elevated basket making it easier to see over the sawgrass.

The geese here don't bother you, but they do make a mess.
A few of the holes on the front are a little tight to each other.
There are a few holes with elevation, but not very many.
Ants can be a problem during the warmer months.
There are briers and poison ivy on a few of the holes.

As one of the creators of this course, it is certainly one of my favorites in the area. I've logged a ton of rounds here
and I never get tired of it. With layout options (playing forward, reverse and safari), we feel like we have several pretty
distinct courses to choose from at all times.

Technically, the course is only open to IBM employees, but contact us if you're interested in playing it.

Timeline of the course
Summer 2016: PVC object poles installed
Winter 2017: Innova Discatcher baskets installed
Fall 2018: New tee pads