It's worth noting how close to the highway this is. If you are traveling down 40, it is only about a five-to-ten minute drive off the highway to get to this course. I found that rather appealing because it made it easy to play here spontaneously when driving from Raleigh to Charlotte.

The course features nice, even, concrete pads and new DISCatcher baskets. There are tee signs at every tee. The tee signs have nice, if not also somewhat funny at times, indicators letting you know where you are. Multiple holes have more than one tee, allowing players to choose fromIntermediate or Advanced+ layouts. Due to time constraints, I only really got to play the short layout. I walked the long tees and they all seemed to be really fun.

The course features a variety of wider, long holes and short technical holes. The fairways were all clear and required different shots to navigate well. The mixture of Par 4s and 5s throughout the round really made things more interesting.

I really enjoyed the subtle design choices that were used to make this course feel unique. Many of the greens were surrounded by large rocks which create a nice aesthetic and create decisions for golfers on what stance to use while putting. Other greens have death putt scenarios where there might be a creek or a pond behind the basket. Hole 10's green was extremely interesting with the pond so close to the basket, but the use of the root balls on the edge of the pond to help save runaway discs was very nice!

Despite being a newer course, you can tell this course gets a lot of traffic. The fairways are already beating in quite nicely, and despite playing it in the heat of summer the lines were still open enough for it to feel like a very established course.

Some tees have very tight gaps to hit off the tee shot, and that really spices things up and makes things interesting. Overall, the course felt like a decent player could score on any hole, or tank their round on any hole if they played it poorly. Many of the holes have multiple pin positions, when I played they were all in the A position, except for 18 which was in the B position, which should keep the course feeling fresh for locals.

One of the things this course did really well, was mixing up the elevation usage. Some tees played uphill, others downhill. Hole 17's basket was on the backside of a mound, which really spiced up the putting. Great variety overall in terms of elevation usage.

While the course doesn't shed water as quickly as some might like, it is clear that steps are being taken to try to alleviate that issue. Some concrete has been poured by a creek and gravel placed on a fairway to help prevent erosion. Not really the most aesthetic fixes, but at least the issue is being addressed.

It's been said before, but I'll say it again. The lack of signage directing patrons of the park to the course is a huge oversight. I wandered around for quite a while before I found the course. It was almost hidden enough for me to just want to leave and play a different course since I was under a time constraint.

I didn't notice any benches on the course, which would give players a chance to sit and rest if needed. There also were no trash cans, but there wasn't any litter either (so for now that doesn't seem to be a huge issue). The tee signs would benefit from a map, because many of the baskets are blind from the tee. And by the time I reached Hole 10, I was tired of walking fairways to decide which shot to throw, so I am glad my drive didn't skip into the pond behind the basket. The direction signage could benefit from all being labeled Long/Short when there are multiple tees on the next hole. I saw it on one set of directional signage, but not all of them.

While I enjoyed the tight gap on Hole 9, the choice to have so many holes with tight gaps created by trees right next to the tees felt overused. I think the trees would also benefit from some sort of protection, Hole 9, which was the one instance of this I really enjoyed seeing, the two trees have already taken an incredible amount of abuse. If this is something that is to be preserved, it is important that the trees are protected by something like irrigation piping or something. Other times when this design choice was used the trees seemed almost dangerously close, where and errant drive could kick and hit a cardmate.

The rough on a few holes seemed abusively punishing, which is to be expected in the summer. Which is unfortunate since the course is located right in the middle of tick country. My biggest issue was how much rough encroached on the putting green for Hole 2. I was maybe ten feet (if that) from the basket, but my disc was in foot tall shrubs.

The course had a few tweener holes. Hole 6 definitely comes to mind when playing from the short tees, despite featuring otherwise excellent hole design. I turned my drive over a bit too soon and had to pitch out, and still managed to birdie.

I am going to give Keeley Park a 3.5 rating for now. While I was torn on whether or not to knock it down an additional half-a-point for some of the cons I listed above (in particular the less than stellar signage and having one or two too many trees right in front of the tees), I felt bad giving a course with so many signature quality holes a lower rating. Overall, I think the design is really high quality, with excellent variety, and it seems to have been kept in good condition so far. Also, I figured the signage will get sorted out eventually anyway, since it is still a fairly new course.

The most frustrating thing about Keeley Park's disc golf course, is the fact that it didn't exist back when I lived in Greensboro. It is among the new wave of courses that has been built in the Triad the past couple of years, and it really elevates the level of courses you can find in that region. It is a great course that anyone traveling between the Raleigh and Charlotte areas should check out.

Favorite White Holes: 3, 6, 11, 17

- Excellent teepads and baskets.
- Fairways are fair.
- Lots of effort and time put into this course.
- Arrows pointing to next tee's are a plus.
- Requires all shot types, good mix and variety, elevation changes etc
- This is a pro level course, and has very difficult shots,
and multiple par 4's and 5's.
- This course will test you physically and mentally
- Designated course only for disc golf, which is very nice not to have to worry about watching out for pedestrians.
- I would rate this course a 4 if you are Pro player, and 2.5 to 3 if you are a beginner, or AM player

- I understand this is a somewhat new course, but there is absolutely zero signage to let you know that there is even a disc golf course at this location.
- Very long walk from parking to the first teepad.
- Some of the basket locations are in areas where water collects, so if there is any rain, you will be putting and playing in mud.
- No bag holders
- Only a couple of benches or picnic tables to rest at
- Tons of tree stumps, roots and "pot" holes to watch out for, as well as high grass where snakes may be, and fire ants on some holes
- Basket location on a couple of holes is too close to O.B.
- Very dangerous on a couple of holes where there are trees directly in front of the teepad, the teepads should have been moved back at least 30 feet or more.
- On one hole there was mud in the middle of the fairway, so even if you had a great shot, you have to throw in mud
- This is not a fun course to play if you are an AM or beginner

- For the two holes that have trees right in front of you off the teepad, they need to put a protective netting or metal around them
- This is 100% a pro-level course, if you are a beginner, do not play this course.
- I have been playing for several years, and this course was just not fun to play.
- There are a few fun holes, but the majority are not for the average AM player.
- There are only a few holes that a beginner or AM could potentially get a birdie on.
- If you can throw consistently 325ft plus, then you could play this course and hope for some birdie opportunities. If you can't throw that far, then this course isn't for you.
- Again this is a pro-level course, and is designed just for them

Very well-balanced wooded course with lots of transitions in and out into the open thanks to a crisscrossing power line easement. Excellent variety of fairway shapes, lengths, angles, elevation change etc. Very well-thought out tee and pin placements with clever use of rock outcroppings, mounds, water, etc. The long tees do a great job of blending placement golf with throwing multiple full-power shots. I'm a very 50/50 RHBH:RHFH player and I can't say the course favors either style that noticeably with all the "lefty holes" being pretty fair to the righty backhands. The sidearm is very beneficial though b/c it is classic NC woods golf and many tees have tight gaps to hit immediately. Very few holes felt like "must-get" in terms of par, with hole 14 being the softest par 4 probably. But all the par 3's feel like they'd average closer to a 3 than lower and would have good scoring separation. There's only a big chance of losing a disc to water on two particular holes (10 &11) but they're not terribly hard to avoid.

Massive concrete tees and nice new baskets. Tee signs have the essential info and next tee arrow minis are plentiful to ease navigation. Course flows and navigates fairly well already. Trashcans and picnic tables are starting to accumulate on the course.

Almost nothing to complain about. The worst, most blah hole is a solidly good hole. Navigation can be tricky if you don't notice the arrow minis on the trees b/c the power line easement can lead you astray. The rough is very natural in a lot of places and piles of briers are not uncommon.

After a few more rounds, I can say here that the course is getting a lot of traffic already and that is leading to a lot of really muddy places. It's bad enough that it would behoove the park to put down some stepping stones, etc to keep the hole to hole transitions from muddying up wider and wider.

Hole 12 from the long tee has a weird, wishbone shaped fairway. The shape of the elbow makes it really easy to have no angle to the 2nd leg of the fairway if you land just short or just long. With the leaves gone, I've just been taking my chances with poking through the trees straight off the tee.

Holes 9 and 13 have trees immediately in front of the tee. 9 has big pines and will probably live for a long time. 13 has skinnier deciduous trees and I'm not as optimistic. They're showing a lot of scars already.

Hole 9 doesn't end very close to the parking lot and neither does hole 10's start so playing a quick 9 holes is not that applicable. This is a long course that takes a few good hours to play. It took my card of 4 about 4 hours to play a round without much of a back up or any other delays. Probably wouldn't take as long once you're familiar with the course b/c we scouted a few fairways on the longer holes. Hole 18 ends very far away from the parking lot and hole 1, especially in the short pin placement.

This course really needs a bathroom somewhere on the back 9. I nearly shat myself holding one in b/c all the bathrooms are closed due to covid-19. The walk to the nearest bathroom is so long that a port-a-potty anywhere near the course would be a Godsend.

Honestly this might be the best course in Guilford county already. It's an excellent use of the land available and fills a nice gap between the shorter, more technical Garden Grove and the longer, brutally tough Holly Run. This is the kind of course I was really hoping the Patriot would (should) be. Just a blast to play and plenty of teeth to keep you coming back for more.

I've actually been souring on this course a little the more I play it. It's a great course but the more I think about it compared to other elite courses, the less it seems to stack up.