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Goldsboro, NC

Kiwanis DGC

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3.155(based on 10 reviews)
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gvdg jake
Experience: 14.4 years 73 played 12 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Solid little course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 30, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

- Nice innova practice basket near hole 1
- Big concrete tee pads
- Trash buckets on most holes
- Fair amount of parking
- Uses most shots in your bag

-Hole 1 and 2 were straight forward holes. 2 was neat with a large mound of dirt that could affect flight of disc but still leaves a chance to run the basket.

-Holes 5/6/7 were fairly open

-Hole 8 was a neat hole with OB creek running straight down the middle. Has a small landing area with a fence to the left of the basket. Easy birdie or easy bogey.

-Holes 9 and 10 were neat too. They had wooden tee pads (no real run up needed). These holes played near the wetlands which was neat to play. Probably not the best to play a few days after a good rain though.

-11 is another neat short hole. Tee off from another deck tee pad in the wet land and shoot up the hill back to dry land. Has a nice boardwalk to get you back without getting muddy or wet.

-13 was a neat RHBH straight to slight hyzer shot downhill to hanging basket with OB long of hole. Could be easy to get in trouble if you hit an early tree.

Cons:

-No benches

-Hole 3 was unplayable for me due to softball tourney players parking on the green. Didn't really like the look of this hole with it playing across the street and kinda back towards the parking lot.

-Had a long transition to hole 4. (lucky for me, I noticed 4 when I was at the practice basket)

-Holes 13 and 15 were a bit confusing at first. You come up the hill after 12 and see 2 pads and 1 basket near the 15 pad. I think tee signs with maps on them could eliminate this confusion in the future.

-Hole 15 is a nice hole, but I didnt care for how close it was to the 14 putting area.

-Hole 18 was a badly thought out hole. Its a par 4 playing back through the park. It has a small OB creek about halfway down the fairway. This hole crosses near a volleyball court and a playground. Both of these had people on them when I was playing the hole. Seemed a little forced.

Other Thoughts:

I enjoyed this course. Its a fair intermediate level course with tons of cool features and very few cons. This course can be a -5 round or a +5 round. I was able to play this course in about 55-65 minutes by myself for the first time. Solid flow to the course. I would recommend this course to anyone in the area or anyone traveling through the area. With a few small changes to the course this could be a good 4.0 course.
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KenanFlagler01
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 14.1 years 195 played 190 reviews
3.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 22, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

1. Practice basket and good, quality baskets
2. Nice, wide trapezoid tee pads
3. Beautiful course, for th most part
4. Fun, elevated basket on #2
5. Really nice mix of open and wooded holes
6. The open holes are gorgeous. Manicured grass, a few trees guarding the baskets.
7. #11 is a fun hole, teeing off on a boardwalk, up a tight, wooded fairway to a fast green.
8. #12 is another fun one: out of the woods, up a hill to a hidden basket on an elevated plateau.
9. The hanging basket on #13 is fun
10. #15 is a long, mostly open hole with an elevated tee: good hole
11. #16 is a really cool open *feeling* hole that's really a tunnel, formed by the large branches hanging down from a row of mature pines

Cons:

1. No hole maps at the tees, so you don't always know where the basket is and you're guessing on distance
2. Tee shot on #3 is over a road
3. No directional signs after the #3 basket. I had to ask a local. You will get lost, if you don't. Long walk across the parking lot, across the 1st fairway, and behind the bathrooms.
4. Hole #8: too much underbrush, No Treaspassing OB to the left
5. Hole #9: very short, no tee pad. Numbers 8 and 9 feel very forced and out of character from the rest of the course.
6. Hole #10: more bad underbrush on the fairway
7. #13 is back into the woods...with too much underbrush
8. Not to beat a dead horse, but the underbrush is pretty bad on the wooded holes on the back nine: lots of thorns and disc-stealing brush
9. MOSQUITOS

Other Thoughts:

This is a really fun course. I almost gave it a 3.5, but backed down to 3.0 because of poor navigation and the underbrush. I would be a borderline 4.0 for this course of those two issues were fixed. Great course that had the potential to be really special with some minor improvements.
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reposado
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 12.9 years 278 played 276 reviews
3.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 29, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

This is one of those park courses that feature about half of the holes in open green spaces and half of them carved through the surrounding woods. It is also one of those courses that do most things well and few things exceptionally. 8 was probably the standout hole for me. It a wooded hole in which the fair is the space above a shallow creek. The landing area is relatively small and the shot required (a gut shot with a small left fad just at the end) is fairly precise but it is a rewarding and aesthetically pleasing hole. Like most of the wooded holes here, the line is clean, the underbrush is at a minimum. 11 is another fun hole, there is a gap about a third of the way down the fairway which leads to a quick climb to the pin. That one is followed by one of the better open holes, with the basket on a small mound. That same position provides elevated tees for 13 and 16, both of which use the tee placement to add difficulty to the drive. The course wraps things up with a chance to air it out, with only a single tree and a minor ditch to inhibit the path to basket unless you go way off course.

Cons:

A few holes don't live up to the rest, including 9 which plays too close to a fence that someone does not want you stepping over and a pair of open holes that traverse open terrain that may be in use by other activities. (Maybe this is rare and I was unlucky to have to skip these two.) The 2 is unfortunately placed one wrong side of the entrance road to the park.

Other Thoughts:

Good intermediate level course with solid variety. Solid all around if unspectacular. Kiwanis was a pleasant surprise.
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