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Lillington, NC

Anderson Creek

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2.865(based on 11 reviews)
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BrotherDave
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Experience: 16.8 years 192 played 189 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Sand-erson Creek 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 2, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

Really nice Mach baskets with deep trays scattered around a young pine forest atop white, sandy soil. The park is nice too (seems really new) though there isn't much else in it but trails, shelter and playground. Finding the beginning of the course is a breeze since you just follow the signs and the sidewalk until it ends. Every hole has an easily seen tee sign and virtually all transitions are paths outlined with little trees. The fairways are very discernible but are generally tighter than a fat kid squeezed into a shrunken sweater. Fortunately the rough isn't disc eating too much. It's 50/50 on providing a scramble opportunity vs being full-on punishing but over time this should improve for a couple of reasons. Players will trample some of the underbrush down and the young pine trees will eventually grow tall enough that their low limbs won't wall off swaths of fairway as much. 3/4's of this course is on land that was clear cut not too long ago so the mostly pines growing up are roughly half as tall as they could be. The other unique feature of this course is the really white, sandy soil which is reminiscent of Joe Eakes in Kure Beach.

The design is good enough that it feels like a disc golfer with half a brain is behind it, awesome. Pars seem appropriate with maybe some occasional 'tweeners (due to thick foliage more than distance). Fairway shapes jive with how discs fly for the most part and the gaps are defined and plausible. Mostly, you're asked to laser a tight tunnel with a crazy low ceiling at a basket a relatively short, straight distance away. This is a prime example of "keep it on the fairway" and I'd strongly advise going putter/mid heavy for this reason but there are so many low lines and occasional flex angles that you wouldn't be crazy for whipping out a driver. The lone par 4 is shaped in such a way that you're tempted to go for it with a driver despite the tightness.

Getting around the course is a cinch and it doesn't take long to play either. It loops back to the start after 9 and 18 brings within short distance of the parking lot also so high marks earned for flow in this regard. Lots of holes had an optional pin placement to mix it up.

Cons:

Two tees make use of the end of the sidewalk but the rest are rutted out sand pits with occasional trip roots. The combo of this and the tight, technical lines make it a BH dominant player's nightmare. You will probably get whipped by your FH dominant buddy thanks to the tees alone.

Tee signs give hole # and distance and that's it, no other fairway data. This isn't too much of a big deal since most of the holes are straight and short so the basket is spotted easily enough. This course does not have a lot of line variety at all thanks to repetitive straight holes but considering the terrain (mostly the short pines) I'm not too critical of it.

The course is really flat although the elevation you do encounter is fun and used creatively. I like a technical course like anybody else but there were quite a few trees (particularly dead ones) I wouldn't shed a tear over if they got removed to widen the fairways a bit or make greens less punitive.

Other Thoughts:

Overall this is a fun, enjoyable round of technical golf. Your scores will swing wildly depending on how well you thread needles and how often the rough lets you attempt a stroke saving exit but it's all worthwhile. I enjoyed trying to save pars with get out of trouble FH rollers and similar trick shots as much as trying to stay on the fairway.

I wish the course had more holes in the section of more mature pine forest just to open it up a bit and give you a respite from the NY studio apartment tight fairways you're inundated with. Longer, open holes and less linear holes (18 is the only not blatantly straight hole) would've been nice too.

Regardless, I'd bump this course's rating up quite a bit if the tees weren't so au naturale. Trying to play a precise, technical course with primitive tees is like trying to paint a masterpiece with 5 broken crayons.
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pmay5
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Experience: 20.9 years 482 played 245 reviews
2.50 star(s)

Decent course in a Nice Park 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 27, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

All the Mark3 baskets are in good shape, a little tough to see on this completely wooded course, but in good shape.
Decent length on most holes, you have to make some drives, through the woods to score well.
Good use of the elevation in the park, although there is no creek or pond on site, they used the elevation available pretty well.
Bathrooms and water on site.

Cons:

Natural surface tees. These are starting to get worn down and some are more of a ditch.
Most holes are straight, not a lot of left and right bending.
No open shots, there are a couple of clearings for ROWs, but they were not used as a fairway. You do come to a clearing after 16, and I thought, finally an open hole, nope, used for overflow parking!

Other Thoughts:

Overall, this is a good course, 18 holes in an area of this rural, county park that don't interfere with the other park users. They put it in the middle of the county, about 15 miles from the next closest course, so its probably well liked by the locals.
There were a few holes that I liked:
#8 - fairway rises slightly from the tee, then drops down to a small ravine then up to the basket.
#13 (I think) - tee is on a ridge fairly long fairway bending left to the basket in a ROW clearing. Nailed the tee shot, missed the birdie.
#17 - long hole (355') through a decent sized fairway to the basket in tall pine trees.
#18 - tee shot has to go right, then back left to the basket.
Only bad thing about 18, it is right next to an open, grassy field, open playfield, not a fairway!
I'd play this again, if in the area, to work on my straight drives.
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