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Milton, FL

NLA - Pirates Cove

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Manson
Experience: 17.1 years 17 played 6 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Pirates Cove @ PSC 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jan 2, 2012 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Technical 9 hole course on small, attractive community college campus. Good mix of hole lengths although 200-250 are the majority. Good mix of right and left turns from tees. Benches at all holes except the first. Decent signage with fairly accurate distances. Paired with the Gator Links across the street makes for a couple of hours of 27 hole discing.

Cons:

Am tees are small but workable. Pro tees are natural and hard to find. Pro tees change holes dramatically but not in the best way. Mostly they just make the drive turn from something possibly dramatic into merely a lay up feel. Could use a few more garbage cans. There are only 2 on the course and it seems lots of folks cannot be burdened to carry their trash another few minutes to dispose of it properly. Ace grafitti on several baskets. I am not a fan. Write on your disc if need be, but don't mark on the basket. Nobody else cares about your ace and it gives a course a trashy feel. I notice lately that there is less it seems. Someone must wipe the baskets clean from time to time. Amen! Hole 2: I hate this hole as it seems to be more luck than skill.

Other Thoughts:

I have played this course numerous times. I think it is a very good 9 hole course that is just challenging enough. A very good round will be rewarded. Get off track a couple of times and your score will be miserable. This course is generally in very good shape, much better than the accompanying Gator Links across the street but I believe that is mostly an accessibility issue as the other course is much deeper in the woods and it would be more difficult to get equipment there. I have aced a couple of holes here but I never seem to have a breakout round. Hole 9 is in my opinion the most challenging of all. In my opinion, this course is a definite must play if in the area. It is short but outshines many of the other courses in the area.
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Heathen
Experience: 19.1 years 196 played 13 reviews
3.00 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 12, 2011 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Pirate's Cove is a small technical nine holer on the Milton campus of Pensacola State College that plays along and through the wood line at the back of the baseball fields and track. It provides a round with a mix of left and right breaking drives, some tight lines, two holes to air it out a little, and a possible ace run or three. The short tees are level concrete tile with signs and there are benches at every hole except the first. It's easy to find and very easy to navigate. There are long tees for every hole that create additional challenges and make the round a much more difficult play. Plenty of parking on the weekend right next to the first tee.

Cons:

The long tees are designated by blue painted markers, set flush with the ground, and can be very difficult to find if you don't know where they are.
The parking can get a little tight during school hours, and I've occasionally run into cars parked in the way on the first hole, but the course starts at the far end of the parking lot furthest away from class buildings and therefore is generally the last part of the lot to fill up.
The ninth hole ends at the far side of the track from the parking lot, which can be a little bit of a walk back to the car, but there is a practice basket in the field at the parking end which can be played as an informal hole 10.

Other Thoughts:

This is a good looking nine hole course that has enough substance to provide some challenge to most players without being so much as to overwhelm beginners. It is paired with the 18 hole Gator Links Course to make for a fun 27 hole round when played together. The Gator Links is across the street from hole number 8 and down a short service road. Play the links and then come back to finish out holes 8 and 9 of the Cove. Parking anywhere on campus other than the end of the lot by the track requires a student parking pass.
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KINGDUCK
Experience: 15.4 years 57 played 34 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Confusing at first and tight 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 14, 2010 Played the course:once

Pros:

Great variety of shots needed to play round. Has 27 holes. Nice signs at the tee pads with par and distance. Front 9 are great for beginners.

Cons:

Confusing the first time played. Actually 9 front holes and 18 in the woods. Front nine nice and open while wooded 18 can be very tight at times with numerous trees. Sign shows pro and am tees for each hole but both do not exist at numerous times. More directional signs are needed.

Other Thoughts:

Front 9 great for beginners but wooded 18 are not. A nice course but get used to the big thud off a tree even for advance players in the trees.
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billnchristy
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 15.2 years 64 played 60 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Nice 9 holer 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 1, 2009 Played the course:once

Pros:

A nice variety of wooded shots with different lengths and shot types. Nice, but smallish tee pads amazingly for the rec-tees, pro tees are dirt and hard to find. Nice nex-t signs will keep you from getting lost.
Awesome enormous practice field, basically there is a practice basket at one end of a soccer + sized field so if it is empty you could practice drives, approaches, and putting.

Cons:

Longish walk from 9 to parking lot.
One basket had cross brace missing which discs could fall out from.

Other Thoughts:

A nice variety of shots, and tight wooded fairways. Being from GA we felt at home in the wooded areas and actually did worse on one field shot.
The course loops around several sports fields and winds through the woods.
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