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Washington, NC

BCCC DGC

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3.55(based on 9 reviews)
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Experience: 7.8 years 258 played 41 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Tangled up in the middle 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jul 13, 2019 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

- Unexpectedly nice mix of holes, ranging from long open bombers, to surprisingly nice wooded holes with well-cleared fairways and fun shot-shaping lines.
- Absolutely fantastic tee signs, with beautiful and informative illustrations. Among the best you'll ever see on a disc golf course.
- Good quality MVP Black Hole baskets.
- For some of the longer hole-to-hole transitions, 'Next Tee' signs gave very helpful text descriptions (ex: follow the gravel path to the left, the next tee is next to the exercise station). I would've liked small graphics too, to give a visual description, since I wasn't familiar with some of the buildings described. Nevertheless, this was a very appreciated feature.
- Many holes will soon have two tees and/or two basket locations, adding to the variety of options here.
- I really liked the design of Hole 13, which tees off in the open, and requires throwing a RHBH turnover to hit a late window into the woods, where the basket is tucked (a RHFH probably wouldn't work, the angle into the gap is too shallow). This is a hole design that you usually see for straight shots and hyzers, not often for turnovers, so that was fun.
- Not sure if the college or if local disc golfers are maintaining the course, but whoever is responsible is doing a very nice job. The woods holes are shockingly clean for such a new course, and the open holes were all nicely mowed and pleasant.

Cons:

I was really enjoying myself from holes 1-7, as the holes flowed nicely, and I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the wooded holes.
But suddenly then, getting to hole 8 required a long walk across nearly the entire campus, thus beginning a stretch of the course that felt like a real mess to me. Holes 8 through 12 suddenly bring roads and campus walkways directly into play, two holes have criss-crossing fairways, and a teepad is in the middle of another hole's fairway, all concerning safety issues to me. The rest of the course improves somewhat, but then 14 is another shot directly at a campus walkway, and then 18 almost shares 1's fairway, but in the opposite direction! I'm glad that I played this course on a weekend with an empty campus and empty course, because otherwise there are some big safety no-no's here that wrecked my enjoyment of the course.
- As mentioned above, the next tee signs give helpful text descriptions on where to go next, but course flow was still very iffy on the longer transitions. Bring the UDisc map.
- On several tees, you will be able to see multiple baskets in front of you. The excellent tee signs very helpfully show which baskets belong to which holes, but better hole layouts could have avoided this issue and improved safety at the same time.
- Two holes carry over water, and another features a basket sloping down to water. On most courses, water carries are distinctive and fun features. But given the small pond sizes and the shot shapes involved, these holes were not interesting, and not worth routing so much of a course towards.
- Hole 16 is quite beautiful, with a hallway of Cypress trees halfway down the fairway. However, those Cypress trees are also a key indicator that this hole could regularly be underwater or at least very wet. Probably fine in the dry summer, but potentially a hole that will need to be regularly skipped in certain seasons. My drive also landed on some old rusted metal hiding in the leaves in circle 2, which absolutely needs to be cleaned up.

Other Thoughts:

I thoroughly enjoyed holes 1-7, and a few on the back as well. But the middle was a tangled mess of fairways and campus traffic, and I would never want to play this course during school hours on a weekday, or if the course were ever semi-crowded for any tournament. I'd give that section of the course a 1.0 rating, while the rest might be closer to a 3.5. Taking the average of that takes me to a 2 or a 2.5, and given the disparity involved, I think a 2 is closer to how I feel, which is unfortunate for the good sections here. If the middle section of the course were ever re-designed, I would absolutely look forward to re-visiting.

3 Jun 2020 - I did end up re-visiting while in the area, and my feelings on this course remain largely the same. No change to rating, small edits to review.
In the future, I will probably play this course as an 8- or 10-hole loop, to include holes 1-6, 17-18, and optionally 7 and 16 in-between them. That loop flows really nicely, and skips the back half of the course that I have most of my issues with. Frankly, if the course were just that loop, I would give it a far higher rating despite having fewer holes, as I enjoy those parts quite a bit. Those holes on the other side of the campus really do drag things down for me. I'll take a killer EP over an LP with too much filler, every single time.
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