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Central Park DGC - Old Layout

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Alejandro01
Experience: 3 played 3 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Bring your hiking boots 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 17, 2013 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Very accessible for people living in the area.
This course has lots of variety which allows you to practice different obstacles.
The park is well maintained by the city, and due to the other sports in the park, there are always people around.

Cons:

The pads are not very well maintained.
The signs where the targets are are not accurate.
The course will get you muddy, some areas are not graded very well, so they have random puddles in the walkways.

Other Thoughts:

If the city would invest/maintain this course as well as it maintains it's tennis, soccer, and baseball fields, this would rank a lot higher.
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DiscBeast.com
Experience: 14.9 years 15 played 2 reviews
4.50 star(s)

My Home Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:May 11, 2012 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

This course offers tons of variety from woods holes to wide open bombs. The course is well maintained by the park service. 27 holes!

Cons:

No concrete pads. The tees are rubber mats and can be uneven at times. The course can be hard to find your way around the first time - the woods course is particularly difficult to navigate.

Other Thoughts:

I have come to realize how lucky I am to have this course around the corner. All around, this is my favorite course that I have played. If there were concrete pads, this would be rated a 5. If you enjoy the opportunity to air out your arm, this is a great course.
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blabbee
Experience: 13.8 years 5 played 2 reviews
4.50 star(s)

My favorite Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:May 6, 2012 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

This course is huge. Alot of open baskets and tees. A couple of shots in very light woods, but the trees can get in the way. The open shots are beautiful. Alot of hiking up and down. Such a great course. Every open shot is either a short turn or a straight shot.

Cons:

The course can be confusing. But they do have the markers showing which way to go if you do get lost.

Other Thoughts:

If your around this course check it out.
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Lewis
Experience: 16.7 years 18 played 12 reviews
4.00 star(s)

This good course continues to develop. 2+ years drive by

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

Pros:

Central Park in Cumming has a lot to offer an intermediate to advanced disc golfer without running off the recreational players. Of the courses I've played, Central produces the greatest variety of distance from its tee pads, featuring a set of blue, red, and white pads. The blue pads are nasty tough on a number of holes, while the whites are accessible to beginners. Most disc golfers will probably prefer the red pads. I'm not sure this is a good course for children or raw beginners, but someone with plenty of energy and a willingness to cut their teeth on a relatively tough course can certainly learn to play here without losing all their discs or getting frustrated out of playing.

Central also has enough land for disc golf that they've installed 27 roomy holes. The "extra" nine loop through the woods near the middle of your round, so if you're not feeling up for 27, it's easy to play 18 and finish at the end of the course.

The slope of the hills here is not particularly steep, but there is definitely enough contour in the land to make it interesting. There are a number of open holes on the front nine, and this part of the course is usually very windy. On the back 2/3 of the course, you see more woods, but the holes in the woods all offer what I'd call "legitimate" fairways. Even in the woods, there are no "plinko" holes, and a number of them offer multiple lines to the basket. There is a sizeable creek running through the property that you have to account for on several holes, which adds an element of interest.

Probably the best "add-on" equipment on this course is the set of wind socks that are installed on many of the holes. Since Central Park is always windy, it's helpful to get a view of what the wind is doing at the basket.

This course keeps changing for the better, so it definitely looks like this course has stewards who are taking good care of it and are always looking for ways to tweak the layout to improve it.

Cons:

The one significant con on this course -- the one thing that bothers me -- is the quality of the tee pads. Yes, there are rubber mats on just about every hole, but no, they are not all level. Check the condition of the pad before stepping up to drive.

Another factor that might bother first-timers is that this course is not easy to navigate without a map or a guide. This is mainly because the course is so spread out around the land, but a few more queues on where to turn after you hole out would be helpful.

I also see a few places in the more open sections of the course where the tee pads are a bit too close to the baskets of adjacent holes for comfort. Although the tee pads are numbered on the tee signs, more cues before I walk all the way to the wrong one would be nice where a couple or three holes converge in the open section. In places it can be tough to tell which pad throws to which basket.

Finally, a design flaw that is minor to me, but might be significant to some players, is that the 18th hole is not at all near hole 1. You've got to hike several hundred yards uphill to get back to the parking area near the start of the course. No big deal for me, but some people on dgcr are awfully picky about that kind of thing.

Other Thoughts:

Central is rather long, so you don't want to play the full 27 unless you have plenty of energy. Also be aware that this is a VERY windy park, at least in the open fields. You're going to want to bring at least a few discs that are good wind fighters, and you will want to have at least a windbreaker if the weather is not hot. You won't need to pack a lunch here, but it's definitely not going to be a 1-hour round.
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GSquare44
Experience: 12.8 years 16 played 16 reviews
4.00 star(s)

It's On the Weekly Rotation 2+ years drive by

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

Pros:

There are multiple tees (with multiple signs), so you can make this course as long as you want. Openness of the course will allow you to work on your drives. Out of bounds (pavement, water, and some ropes) will test your accuracy. Hole variety is very nice with 5 holes that are wooded and the rest open or on wooded fringes. There are a quite a few elevation changes on the course, so it makes for a great workout.

Cons:

Download the course map because you will be confused the first time you play the course.
Launchpads. Sometimes they are on uneven earth or roots underneath the the rubber pads.

Other Thoughts:

Not as busy as Wills or E Roswell if your a local.
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GavinSexton
Experience: 12.6 years 3 played 3 reviews
4.50 star(s)

My hometown favorite 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 6, 2011 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Easy to find stray discs. 27 holes. Good parking. Most every hole is a challenge, that is achievable with a good throw. Very clean, well maintained

Cons:

Course can be confusing on a first visit, especially the 9 holes in the woods after hole 12. Can be easy to throw in shallow creeks.

A few tee's are pretty worn out.

Other Thoughts:

I play here as often as possible. I highly enjoy it. It is beginner friendly, and FUN!
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OneSiriusOkami
Experience: 12.7 years 4 played 4 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Wide open, Good fun 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jul 19, 2011 Played the course:once

Pros:

Lots of fun holes on this one! On this course you really get your distance and left to right practice in.
The place is very well maintained. If you happen to love beautiful settings this is your kinda place to play. Could have sworn that a hobbit was going to jump out of the wilderness and steal my discs, but I was happy to say that I went the whole course without loosing one disc!
Some of the launching pads are insane! Like the one out of the woods on the giant hill was great! What a chalenge!
This was the first ever Disc-golf course that I've played, and it was the one that got me hooked!

Cons:

I do believe that they could have done a bit better at atleast directing the course better. Got so turned around that we actually ended up missing two holes. :-(
The launches themselves are in very poor conditions. Some do not even have the rubber matts on them.
Some of the pins are hard to spot. We actually had to perform some recon on a few holes, so back tracking was also in the picture. I recomend printing out (or for our smartphone users out there) downloading the sourse map.

Other Thoughts:

If you love wide open spaces, and room to stretch, this is your place! Lots of out of to into woods play! So yah get your share of shade and sun!
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crandellfamily
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 19.8 years 27 played 26 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Fun, not too tough, can get hot 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jul 27, 2011 Played the course:once

Pros:

Pros: Overall interesting set of holes. Nothing too extraordinary or unfair in the sense of challenge. We played the reds, and just about every hole seemed like a fair par 3 at that distance, with a lot of decent birdie opportunities. There is some good use of the two main creeks through the course layout. Helped a lot to have flags on top of the baskets, in order to find them better on our first time through. Once we established where each tee was, the best route to the basket was almost always easy to see.

Favorite holes:

#3
a nice gradual uphill that encourages a fade right

#6
a very well placed basket to the right, across the creek

#9
fun to see the basket from the tee, through a decently wide channel in the woods. The creek starts to encroach from the left as you approach the basket

#16
short downhill again inviting a fade right. Basket set on a mound that slopes down to the creek on three sides. My drive skipped from pin high into the water long - tough break, but it highlighted the need to think through your shot.

#17
downill into a lot of thin trees. There's a decent channel for the drive, but you're still going to need some luck to get it close enough for a good birdie chance.

Cons:

Tees are very uneven rubberized pads. Almost impossible to get a solid runup for the drive. Couldn't even see a blue tee pad for #1, although we could guess where it probably should have been, from the dirt patch that was there. That's one reason why we played the reds.

Some very confusing and long walks, with a limited sense of where to go on a few holes. I checked the map at the course bulletin board. It's significantly outdated. I also read the course description written here, but we still got ourselves turned around a few times. There's a huge unmarked walk into the woods from 2 to 3. You need to take the left fork of the bike trail, once you find it, and just keep going. It takes a bit of work to reorient yourself coming back out of the woods from 4 to 5. Look for the red tee to the left as you hit the mown grass, back across the creek and very slightly into the woods. The walk from 7 to 8 is a monster. Down into the woods to the right and far beyond the 7th basket. 9 to 10 is a long walk, once again across the creek and back out of the woods, but pretty easy to recognize from the lay of the land. Look high and to the left for the 16th tee. We walked all the way to the 16th basket before noticing where the tee was.

10th to the 15th is a series of relatively uninspiring straight open shots. Okay use of the elevation, but not much more than that. And on a hot summer day, hitting a consecutive stretch of open holes at that point took a bit out of us.

The walk from the 18th back to the parking lot is another haul. Again admittedly we made it worse on ourselves because of our choice to play in the heat.

Other Thoughts:

Looks like a very active park - lots of baseball fields. But the course is well-designed to avoid crowds of wayward walkers. My sister-in-law says the mtn bike trails in the park woods are fun, including a technical "trick" layout.
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TheJackalope
Experience: 14.8 years 5 played 5 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Good course for the In Shape. 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 19, 2011 Played the course:once

Pros:

This is a large and in charge kinda course. Right-to-lefts, Left to Rights, and one pad up in the woods on the top of a hill, and a throw over 200 ft worth of scrub and underbrush. Insane. 27 holes is a massive number of holes. There is water on tap at the bathrooms. This course has some truly sick launch pad placements. Some holes are so beautifully set among old growth trees, and fish infused creeks, that you swear it has to be a magazine. Well groomed when I was there. Fresh cut fairways, downed trees seemed to be part of the hazards, and not left there due to inactivity.

Cons:

Up a hill, down a hill, and repeat. this wouldnt be so bad except that the layout is not intuitive at all, and sometimes we had to wait for a car to drive by so we could launch off the road, because that is where the Pad marker was. This was NOT an easy course to traverse at all.

Other Thoughts:

I would go back, and will go back. It is a really long drive for me, and well worth it.The police station located in the park really does a number on keeping the crime down, but never once did we see any of the Cities Finest walking the course. It was very relaxing and awesome, and the Oak tree at the 18th hole is the most amazing site, and a lifesaver at the end of your front 18.
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stg1020
Experience: 32 played 3 reviews
2.00 star(s)

A course in decline 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 19, 2011 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

As already mentioned-good terrain change, good mix of left, right, open and narrow shots. Mix of wooded and open holes. Many holes have well thought out catch placements. The elevation changes make for a vigorous walk.

Cons:

Over the last few years the course has fallen into disrepair. Too often the course is over grown. The T-pads are in bad shape.Some holes are a little more than catches placed among trees.

Other Thoughts:

As is the case with several Ga. courses the DG community is welling to work on the courses but the park and rec folks are not responding
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mashnut
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Experience: 22.1 years 831 played 767 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Some fun, some not so much 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 23, 2011 Played the course:once

Pros:

The course plays through various terrains and foliage, which keeps it pretty interesting. There are open holes, holes through pine forest, holes through nice deciduous trees with some rough, and some that play into or out of the woods. There's a nice variety of hole lengths, especially if you consider all four sets of tees. Many holes have tees that offer very different lines, adding a little more variety and replayability.

You'll need to shape some different shots here, the wooded holes call for a nice balance of left, right and straight shots. There are lots of minor elevation changes throughout the course, and they're used pretty well overall. A small stream comes into play, and adds a little bit of ob challenge without the risk of losing a disc.

Cons:

The tees are in pretty poor shape. They're a mix of poorly laid lumpy rubber pads (some that are falling apart) and rutted out natural tees. Many aren't all that level, and few offer a very nice spot to do much of a run up. The signage is inconsistent, at the various tees and between holes, which makes navigation a little frustrating at times. This is especially true of the letter holes, they're hard to find and play in the right order. There is a long walk back to the parking lot after the end of the course, not a huge deal but worth mentioning.

Other Thoughts:

There are some really nice holes here, but there are also several that are wide open and boring, or just feel like filler shots. The various tees aren't always easy to find, and none are in great shape. Beginners will find the shortest tees approachable, though several still have thick rough if you miss your line. More experienced players will find some variety and challenge from the longer sets of tees, though it's mixed in with some pretty uninteresting holes.
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KrayzeeD
Experience: 13.4 years 17 played 3 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Home Course Praise 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 5, 2011 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

*Great hole variety with elevations, distances, and obstacles (trees, creeks, OBs, etc.)

*Good scenery all around despite the giant landfill-cover mountain bordering 8 & 9 and a walk underneath the powerlines on the lettered 9.

*Pin location variety. Some tee variety.

*Some signs, some high quality.

Cons:

*If the weather has been bad, this course can get mushy - though this obviously holds true with many DG courses.

*If the other DG courses you play don't get you in shape, this one will, especially if you play from blue - though this could easily be a pro too.

*Some tee variety.

*Some signs, or lack thereof.

*Pretty long walk back to the car from 18, especially if you've gone the distance and played all 27.

*Rubber/Natural teepads.

Other Thoughts:

Central Park is a fantastic course. Don't question it, just go play it. However, understand that when you do, you will be presented with an enduring walk amongst BIG hills (especially if you're playing from blue) with many elevation changes, digging through thick brush, and potentially getting lost or turned around in the lettered 9 if you're not with an experienced CPDGC player.

There's not a lot of signage at Central to keep you moving in the right direction, however steps have been taken over the past couple months to improve this. The lettered 9, however, seem to keep being neglected. Also hole signage is somewhat limited, and in some instances is just downright unhelpful or unreadable.

Almost every hole has 2 or more pin locations - unfortunately they aren't moved often enough for this to be a major plus, but it's a plus nonetheless. A few people have discredited the tee locations/variety. In some instances I agree with this, but in most I do not. I view tee locations as a method of training for new players. Obviously people new to the game will probably play from the shorter tees, and Central's handling of this is just as good as any other course in most cases. However, the pads are a different story. There are a good handfull of rubber pads, unfortunately most are worn down or degrading. The rest are natural and after bad weather are no fun, but still manageable.

What wins at this course is the length and challenge of the holes and the great walk/scenery you get to enjoy while you're playing. No course feels like as much an adventure to me while I play as Central does. If you're the kind of player that doesn't care about what's around you while you're playing Disc, you probably won't enjoy Central as much as others. If you're looking for the cleanliness and amenities that places like Alexander Park offer, you probably won't enjoy Central as much as others. However, if you like a good hike through the woods and over tall hills while you play some well designed and challenging holes, Central has what you need.

And for players who have been around the Greater Atlanta DGC's - If you've played Sequoyah in Canton and read the reviews and thought those people were crazy for the way they bashed the course, understand that Central gets the same treatment in it's reviews. I loved Sequoyah and decided that it's reviewers must be lazy, out of shape, whiny players who run from anything remotely challenging. If you feel the same, come to Central and give it a go - you won't be disappointed.

Favorite holes (from blue):

3 - challenging tight drive through skinny pines that opens smack into the face of a hill you must cross completely to the pin on the far side.

7 - your tee shot is about 40 feet higher in elevation than the pin and between the two is a depression that drops probably 120 feet. This is a beautiful view from blue.

8 - new hole with a great new pad (wish they would have gone ahead and done concrete since they just made this pad about 2 months ago), tight fit into the channel off to the right - aceable.

A - another high elevation tee over a deep depression - this one has trees and a creek in it though.

H - blind drive from blue, bad shots will end up in the creek not 15 feet from the tee, pin nestled in tall bushes

I - this drive just scares you (the blue tee is over the creek and back towards E's fairway/tee), only the best drives will make it to a good approach location beyond the creek.

15 - I love and hate this hole all at the same time - we used to think the wind killed drives on this hole, now we realize that somehow it's just the hole.

17/18 - favorites because of the challenge - this is possibly even a con of Central - you just went through 25 holes and are ready to head home and Central finishes you off with one last 2-hole F-You to ruin whatever score you had so far.
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skamasterhenrik
Experience: 15.9 years 49 played 12 reviews
2.00 star(s)

So many tees, so little focus 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Nov 26, 2010 Played the course:once

Pros:

*Review is for blue tees, and to some extent reds
-Signs! Wow, these were very very nice and informative in terms of distances, tee, and pin locations
-Tee variety (white, red, blue, gold)
-The usual benches, trash cans, etc were sufficiently available
-Course is on a decent piece of land
-Something for everyone at CPDGC

Cons:

-Tee variety, whites are practically useless
-Teepads were either crap, becoming crap, or not even there
-Course suffers from inconsistency
-New holes #8 and #9 were no good, felt way too forced

Other Thoughts:

Central Park was enjoyable, but there are caveats. Why have four sets of tees if you can't provide proper tee pads? Anyone can pick a spot, tee off, and call it the whatever color they want. I can see the idea behind four tees, but I felt that red and blue would be sufficient enough for 99% of players. Perfect those and move forward with gold tees (whites were useless).
The holes here were really hit and miss:

#3 to #4- three was picturesque with the pines, with your line drive past the trees landing in field like grass sloping downhill left.....transitions to hole four which has no fairway and a ridiculous pin position behind a cluster of trees
#8 and #9 are new sure, but I did not like them at all. Put a pin behind some trees, run it next to a creek and its supposed to be a good hole? Hmmm.

There were some decent holes here and there:
#3- neat hole, in some picturesque pines
#7- from the blues, you're up on a hill shoot down only for your drive to stop dead from another hill with the pin tucked away on the side of the that hill, elevation here is used well.
#13- downhill with OB woods protecting the right side of the fairway into a "gulch" of sorts where you'll find the pin

There is something for everyone here, and you will find yourself looking the occasional different shot. You might also find some holes to be boring grip and rip, depends on what you find challenging and fun. Like I said before, the tee variety is both a pro and con and would benefit from some more attention to the red and blue tees. I recommend playing here, because dg in the area is scarce and the course does have good intentions, but could use a tune-up if you will.

*I would really like to play the course in tournament conditions from the gold tees, as I feel like this course could benefit from a little shaping up to focus on "problem" areas. This, in turn, would potentially increase my rating. The course has a lot of potential (at least a 3* star course) if they could just fine tune the tee issue, and establish some type of identity for itself. Keep this in mind when reading this review and considering my current rating of 2*'s. Thanks!
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BACKhand13
Experience: 14.8 years 5 played 2 reviews
4.50 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:May 18, 2010 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

This is my home course and I love it. It has the normal 18 holes but also comes along with an extra "middle 9" (starts after you play the 12th hole) as my friends call it. These holes are extremely technical compared with the actual 18. There is a lot of variety, not only with the layout of the holes, but how you can play the holes. There's the normal 18 but once or twice a month the grounds crew removes a few of the baskets and you can play a "Giant Course." For example, you would play from the first tee to the second basket.

If you are a player who enjoys wide open holes where you can just let a disc fly and a few holes that test your skills and make you play smart...then this is the course for you!

Cons:

As some other people have said, the rubber tee pads are pretty worn and can be annoying at times. Maybe concrete pads sometime in the future. The maps do need some updates and were pretty confusing the first time I played the course.

Other Thoughts:

Try Cumming Central Park DGC out and you'll fall in love with it. Just no speeding through the parking lots because the Forsyth County Police Precinct is in the park. haha
Come out, have fun, and enjoy yourself!
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maynes35
Experience: 14.3 years 25 played 18 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Great Disc Golf Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 8, 2010 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

This course is really nice. I wasn't sure on my rating, but I knew it was at least a 4.0. The holes have great versatility. No real repetative holes. There is even a practice basket with a sort "around the world" set up, with markers at further distance as you move around the basket. There are wide open holes to bomb off of and some very tight "technical shots". The park is well maintained and it seems like they really care about the disc golf course out there. Multiple tee pads, white, red, blue, and some yellow. I played mostly red and some blue and my wife played mostly white and some red. You can really change the perspective from the different tee boxes. The "grounds crew" were all really nice to us and advised us the outlook on incoming rain. The first 18 holes were very fun to play. When you get back to the alternate holes, things change a bit. I still enjoyed them but it was a little more "wildreness golf" than the regular 18. Nice signs at each tee so you knew what you were getting into if you were new to the course.

Cons:

Although I love this course there are some improvements. The course map is well out of date and can mess you up on the first couple holes. The alternate holes aren't even on the map. The tee boxes need work. I love concrete tees, but it you can't have concrete at least keep the rubber pads in good shape in all spots. Some of the whites didn't have pads at all, and were pretty tough to find on some holes. Sometimes it was hard to find our way from hole, especially on the alternate holes. I could imagine having some issues due to where holes finish and the next tee box is located if the course was busy. There is some overlap. We played at 8 am on a Thursday so there was no traffic.

Other Thoughts:

This course is great, so if they fixed the tees, maybe slapped some new paint on the tee box markers, and made a new map with all the current hole layouts this could be a 4.5 or maybe a 5. The park is really awesome for other things too. Biking, walking, batting cages, tennis. We don't live here, but if we did we'd be up there all the time! There are some "watch out for flying disc signs" which I thought was awesome. So other people have to watch out for you, not the other way around!
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Cush
Experience: 26.8 years 13 played 1 reviews
4.00 star(s)

One of the best around... 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 16, 2010 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Good wide open holes with a few in the trees. Rolling terrain good for leftys and rightys. Away from park traffic most of the time. Lots of tee pad options. Multiple hole locations.

Cons:

Tee boxes are starting to show their age. Can become crowded on nice days and weekends. Moderate course wear due volume. Lots of speedy mountain bikers and wandering pedestrians.

Other Thoughts:

Watch out for fenced in areas and disguruntled park and county employees who are sick of getting bombarded with discs.
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slengel82
Experience: 21.4 years 10 played 7 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Big Fan! 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 27, 2010 Played the course:once

Pros:

Layout is similar to an actaul golf course. Feels bery professional. Really enjoy the versatility of the holes. Never repetative and keeps you on your toes throughout the game. Some nice stream pass thourghs and some great hole placements, one on the edge of a stream so if you overshoot you're putting from 7 feet below the basket. Really different!

Cons:

Pretty busy. Lots of folks playing course.
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Psalman
Experience: 14.6 years 10 played 9 reviews
4.50 star(s)

Impressed to say the least 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Nov 8, 2009 Played the course:once

Pros:

This is the only course in Metro Atlanta with over 18 holes. I'm adding 1/2 star just for that. Even if you don't particularly like a certain hole, there's so many to choose from it is hard not to like this course. The course is very easy to find. Just take exit 17, go West and look to your left. If you can't find it, you just fail IMO.

There are at least three sets of tee boxes per hole. The tips are great, but we played the mids to save some gas for the last few holes. You walk about two miles to play every hole, so unless you've played the tips for all 27, you may want to save that for your second trip to make sure you don't wear out your arm.

Holes 7-8, A-B have some great elevation. I won't spoil them, but I'm sure you'll love them. Holes 3-4 are two of the best wooded holes I've played on. They are very secluded which I enjoy as a former ball golf player. Fortunately, they have cleared enough of the bushes that you aren't crawling through a jungle like at some places (cough, cough Sequoyah).

The alternate nine holes have a stream that weaves through it. Unlike the stream at Oregon Park, you won't be jumping across stones. Since you never throw over the stream, it's not really a factor. The stream is clear with shallow banks so retrieving a disc is easy if you actually find yourself in it.

Cons:

This may be my new favorite course, but with that said there is still room for improvement.

The signs are there, but are old and the colors don't match the tee boxes. It's just annoying. The short tee is white, the mid is red and the back is blue. Some of the tee pads are badly worn and need to be replaced. Some of the tee box markers have been mischievously moved. Also, it can be hard to find the next hole especially on the alternate nine. There is no map for those, and the layout is not very intuitive. After you learn the course, this won't matter. Newer signs would be nice though for new players (like me).

There is no water fountain anywhere. Most players carry a bottle in their disc bag, but with the extra holes consider a larger or second bottle. You can always throw it away in the numerous trash cans. We were all dying 2/3 of the way through.

Other Thoughts:

If you look at the map, you'll notice that a lot of the holes have trees really close to them on the right. The underbrush is very thick on the back nine, so locating discs is almost impossible.

Several other holes are on the side of hill sloping downward from left to right. As a sidearm thrower, I was often unable to throw my standard anhyzer drive, since the disc would hit the hill or fade right into the trees. In my opinion, RHBH players have an overall advantage to RHFH and LHBH players on this course.

This course is definitely one of the best near Atlanta. It could still be better, but if the course were perfect then we'd have to admit it's our fault on a bad shot and not the course's.
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Michael Lawrence
Experience: 8 played 1 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Fairly Good 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 25, 2009 Played the course:once

Pros:

Clean course. Wind flags were a plus. I liked the variety of the holes being that some are very open, while others are tight and challenging.

Cons:

There were a couple of holes that are missing baskets altogether. I found that very disappointing. The placement of the holes could be better. Also, it was sometimes hard to know where the next holes were. Hole 16 is terrible. There is a mandatory right of the tree but if you throw it a little bit off, then it is lost in a very large amount of brush. It took me 30 minutes to find my disc.

Other Thoughts:

I find this course to be more geared towards the advanced players. If you play more for the sport, such as myself, this may not be the best course. However I only played the first 18. I didn't have enough time to play the other 9.
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WAS1
Experience: 10 played 10 reviews
3.00 star(s)

27 hole versatile course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 2, 2008 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

• The course has 27 holes
• The course is versatile with a variety of possible configurations, including some very challenging 18 hole configurations

Cons:

• Several of the holes are to close together
• Several of the holes are to close to park roads, parking lots and ball fields

Other Thoughts:

The course has a variety of open and wooded holes that can be configured into wide variety looks and skill levels.

Signature hole : 6
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