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Kings Mountain, NC

Maples Lake DGC

2.425(based on 6 reviews)
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Bennybennybenny
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Experience: 13.3 years 306 played 289 reviews
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I hate to say this 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 2, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

-Very pretty use of land. The lake looks perfect for fishing.
-Place was super fun years ago! Just look at how you can tee off on that hill on hole 9! The hole is sweet (If that is the real hole) you even get to throw over the creek too! I really hope this place gets shaped up because #9 would easily be one of the best hole I've seen if it wasn't overgrown.
-DisCatcher Sport baskets, not the best but you can move them I guess, and make up your own hole.

Cons:

-Where do I begin?!?! How about the fact that this course is extremely overgrown. I played #1 and had a great shot, maybe 15' from the basket, my mid range is lost! Holes 4-6 are wide open field shots, they are overgrown as well, all of them. #7 is probably in the worst shape. The design is great, this is a fun looking hole, but it's overgrown in every possible way. The basket is into the woods over a small creek and you can't even see the opening, even worse there is kudzo all around the trees and it has gotten way out of hand, it's literally growing in the basket. #8 and #9 look the best, and they still need tons of work done.
-Tee markers are missing on every hole I could find. Where do I tee off at?!?! Oh, and I knew #2 by the media, I can't find the basket on this hole either. Since the baskets are pretty much portable, for all I know, someone could have stolen it. #9's basket is tilted at the fence beside the entrance.
-The entrance is very narrow. I drive an Acura and it's a coupe. It's a small car that barely fit through. I hope you can park beside the pro shop just up the hill because I didn't know if I could park there or not, but there was not a "Tow Zone" sign so I just parked there and walked off. It took me over 30 minutes to find the first tee. I walked and walked and eventually just walked back down the hill towards where the entrance was and found a basket in the woods that looked like #1 from what I saw on the media.
-No one was at the pro shop. There were only four people here including me. The other three were fishing and had no idea what to do or where to park either.
-The practice basket beside the pro shop is barely visible. Why?!?! Because of the extremely high grass with possible snakes all over this place.
-I couldn't find #3, this course is impossible to navigate, I just walked around and found #8 and walked down the fairway and found North Carolina's Changing Fairway of Overgrowth. AKA #7.
-$5 bucks to play here. I don't think so, I noticed at the entrance, it said on the slot where I did NOT pay "If you leave your $5 without putting your name on your envelope, you didn't pay." That's right, I didn't, I didn't give my $5. I did notice I'm on camera but if you think I will pay to lose a bunch of discs and have a hard time navigating this course, You've got another thing coming. I'm not in the mood to buy a bunch of discs for replacement, and I'm getting my birthday money early :). So I mostly just walked the course.

Other Thoughts:

-What a shame. I don't know if there is any hope to fix this course up. Navigation is impenetrable, grass is too high and consists of many thorns, maybe even a few missing baskets. This is just terrible, I came very excited and left very pissed off. I really think whoever reads this review should take my advice and call the number here (They probably won't pick up.) and ask how much they want for their probably not nine baskets. Chances are, not too much, it seems like it was a hassle for them just to maintain a fun course that I'd love to play. Based on how much I want this course back, I wouldn't mind at all helping fix up the course. I don't have a job yet but I probably will work at a golf course in Gastonia soon. It would be great if they would let me help fix it up by cutting grass, weed eating, trimming maybe even marking the tees back to where they were! I used to have my own Yard Work Service. "Benny's Mow and Go." I really hope this place won't be like this forever. It's neglected to a whole new level. Just look at #9, how fun that hole was and can still be, this hole is in the best shape on the course. At least the funnest hole is still playable while the others are not really at best.
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