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Atwater, MN

Tadd Lake DGC

2.35(based on 5 reviews)
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Spike Hyzer 23
Experience: 30.8 years 92 played 88 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Mediocre 12 Hole Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 4, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

The setting is fairly nice, a man made lake with a small creek running through and a foot bridge nestled between a ball golf course and some farmland close to the residential district of this unincorporated town.

The length of the course is great for the novice and intermediate player, but advanced and pro players should have an opportunity to birdie every hole.

The baskets are very nice, and while the water is said to be in play on 4 holes, the only real risks would be for an extreme bail out hyzer shank on #5 for a RHBH or the same fail for a LHBH on #12, as well as a LHBH hyzer on #2 (#3 and #8 cross the creek but both holes are about 200 and you'd have to leave something very short to land in the water on those).

I really loved holes 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8.

It's very easy to find and a pretty fun little deuce or die layout.

Cons:

It was only after I threw a perfect shot down the middle on #1 between two gigantic firs and parked this difficult shot that I noticed on the tee sign that the pad should be to the left of those firs (a very easy LHBH). They should make this adjustment for a more challenging hole, as I think I might only pull off that perfect shot 1/3 times, and I would make the other 8/10.

Holes 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, and 12 are fairly lazy designs and somewhat boring and very straightforward.

Very confusing layout for such a small piece of land (and who really looks at the tee sign to find the direction for the NEXT hole?). It is very hard to find the tee for #2, even though the first basket you really see while driving in is #2.

It's over a 500' walk between holes 7 and 8 and you really have no clue as to what direction. The only reason I got back on track was that in my search for #2 I found the tee for #9 and was able to figure out that 8 must be somewhere between.

It's almost 500' to get from #9 to #10 and this time you have absolutely no clue as to where to go. I ended up on the ball golf course, as the tee sign for #10 is hidden in front of two gigantic firs (even though the tee pad is BEHIND those firs). It was only when I spotted the basket from the 8th tee of the ball golf course that I realized where the hole was. This tee sign should be moved back to the teeing area so it is visible from the #1 tee and #9 green (which are next to each other).

Other Thoughts:

Update: I received a PM saying that it is indeed 18 holes. This makes this sad, terrible design even sadder. As soon as you exit the 11th green, there is a tee sign clearly marked #12 that returns toward the parking lot.

Apparently, one must walk roughly 100 yards past the 11th pin to a foot bridge where Google Earth does show something that looks like pins in a very flat and very lightly wooded area.

What a waste. The designers of this course did a horrible job to make it so difficult to find the additional holes (and to find so many prior).

It's not worth going out of your way to play.
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