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Wendell, NC

Wendell DGC

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2.225(based on 9 reviews)
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GriffinG1994
Experience: 22 played 5 reviews
2.00 star(s)

One and Done 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 29, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

The course has multiple tee pads and some decent holes.

Cons:

The course is pretty confusing. You finish 8 and then the next hole is 10 and you have to look around for 9 etc. Course conditions aren't outstanding, but manageable. Some holes have ridiculous roughs for no reason. You might as well have water on all sides of you on some holes because of the height of underbrush and fields on the sides of fairways.

Other Thoughts:

Holes 12-17 were marked as closed for construction. I am glad that I was able to play them because I did not see anything hindering me from doing so. I can safely say that we will not be returning to this course. There are other closer courses that are of better design and conditions.
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Duckdiscgolf
Experience: 10 years 1 played 1 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Challenging with potential but disappointing 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 12, 2020 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Convenient to eastern wake county with light attendance. I often have the course to myself. Challenging course with variety of hole patterns and multiple tee options. Some long, some short, uphills, left turns, right turns. Good hole signage. Peaceful and quiet.

Cons:

Ants. Poisonous plants. High weeds and brush. Roots. Trees. Dirt tee pads. Can be quite muddy. Course seems to be "lightly" maintained by Wendell. Quite challenging for the average player, narrow fairways and tunnels. You will hit trees and chip your discs.

Wear pants because you will likely be digging thru the woods, brush and high weeds looking for your discs. You may loose a disc at this course but gain a rash from poisonous plants or insect bites. Standing in one place too long, you may have ants crawling on you or your bag.

Holes 10 and 11 seem like they should have been switched.

Other Thoughts:

Course has such potential but sorry to say it has not been improved at all since it was put in. Don't take your eyes off your disc while in flight, you may not find it. Needs bush-hogging and lots of it, please. You might not want to play with a new disc, use one you don't mind loosing.
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BrotherDave
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 16.8 years 192 played 189 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Could be a lot Better 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 10, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

This course is on prime property for a great disc golf course b/c it can and does offer a great balance in open to wooded holes. The baskets are new Discatchers, the tee signs are very descriptive and plentiful (three tees on every hole I think and each tee has it's own tee sign). There's a kiosk with the course map on it, you're going to want to snap a pic of that.

The wooded bits are very wooded. The hole that plays along an old driveway was by far the widest fairway tunnel if that tells you how tight most of these holes are. There is a lot of variety of wooded holes in spite of their narrowness. A few holes play a bit in and out of the woods which is a plus. The open holes are long and rewarding to big arms. They provide a nice Yang to the wooded holes' Yin. The open part also has nice mature trees on it like you'd typically see in a city park, like a nice grove of pecan trees. It's a nice park, very woodsy.

Cons:

Navigation is a massive issue. Finding hole 1 was tough even with a map. Finding next holes was a challenge b/c so many tees are close enough in proximity to have to mistakenly go down the wrong trail after you hole out. B/c every hole has three tees and signs, there are tee signs EVERYWHERE. If you're playing a particular tee like the Blues for example, it's a hassle finding them from afar b/c many trails take you to them at a weird angle where you end up walking backwards down the fairway a bit plus you have to get fairly close to the tee sign to see what color the little cap on the post is. If the whole tee sign post was painted the tee color designation, plus maybe the hole's number in big numerals on the back and/or sides it would be an IMMENSE improvement.

The wooded holes are extremely tight. Lots of fairways could use some decisive widening. Most of them are about the width of your average nature trail. No bueno. Especially when the rough is very thick. A lot of tees had low ceilings or a random tree leaning in the way that just set you up for failure right away. Obviously a lot of the par 4 blue tees would probably turn into par 3's if you better defined the fairways but that's a risk I'm willing to take.

No tees at all. Not even disturbed ground where you can tell people have been teeing off. It's really a guess as to where you're supposed to tee off exactly on most holes. Also no benches or trashcans really. I don't usually factor a lack of benches into my cons except for this part:

ANTS, ANTS EVERYWHERE. You can't really help nature but holy crap I'd be doing a disservice if I didn't mention that Wendell DGC might be the world's largest ant sanctuary. I don't think they're fire ants b/c they seemed very docile but they carpeted 3/4ths of this course. You can't put your bag down without 8 of them climbing on. They've built little tunnels everywhere, like little drug runners working for El Chapo.

Finally, the open holes are fine except for one thing. They do this thing which absolutely pisses me off more than anything. They nicely mow swathes through nasty weeds so that the fairways are well defined. This seems like a good idea unless you actually play disc golf and then you realize that a slightly errant shot either A) disappears forever and/or B) results in filling your shoes with stabby seeds, briers, and covering your legs with poison ivy. BUSH HOG ALL THIS ISH. Nobody likes this. Seriously Wendell park employees, nothing sucks the fun and kills the replay factor of a disc golf course more than losing or searching for a disc in weeds that are easily removable. Yeah, I lost a disc on the last hole b/c of this and b/c I had to throw a funky flex shot around a stupid branch that was cutting off all the conventional lines. I'm bitter.

Other Thoughts:

This really could be an enjoyable, good course. It doesn't have epic course potential (too flat) but it could be a quality course. Most of the hard work is done already, it just needs fine tuning (trimming/mowing) and tees. As it is now it's worth a visit but you'd probably enjoy it more in the winter and with throwaway discs.
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