Let me start by saying how grateful I am to have such a long and technical course this close to Winston-Salem. We have some great local courses with a lot of history, but this place stands to take the top spot.

There's a lovely mix of long and short holes, most of which are wooded. I haven't played short tees yet but the longs are difficult without being punishing. Scoring opportunities are there if you can get some distance while hitting the gaps, but for my first round there were a lot of pars.

Creative hole shapes requiring about every type of shot, uphill, downhill, sidearm, backhand, turnover, it's all there.

I don't want to be too hard on the course yet since it literally just opened a couple weeks ago, but a lot of the teepads could benefit from having a broom nearby. I slipped on silt/sand 3 or 4 different drives even though it was a dry day.

The course also needs some signs directing you to the next hole occasionally, but this wasn't such a big deal.

Again I am so thrilled to not have to drive to Yadkinville DGC to get this kind of experience. I can't wait to get out there and play it again.

If you go check out this course, make sure to use The Crossing Church as your GPS target. I followed the link in uDisc to get there and it took me to a random geo-location on the highway. Took me about 15 minutes to get to a spot to turn around and head back. Not a huge deal, especially since you only make that type of mistake once.

I ran into one of the course designers (Mitch) out there and he was super chill and very nice. We had a good conversation.