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Carrollton, TX

Castle Hills

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2.585(based on 6 reviews)
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aclay
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Experience: 39.6 years 309 played 236 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Castle Hills 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 3, 2019 Played the course:once

Pros:

-- Cement tee pads. They vary in size some, but all are long enough. 9/15 and 11/13 share tee pads.
-- Very nice Veteran baskets
-- Water is in play to some degree on several holes, but for the most part you have bail out options.
-- Navigation is decent. If you look at the map to familiarize yourself with the general layout, you should be fine. No. 1 tee is between the cul-de-sac and the water directly in front of you. The sign is missing.

Cons:

-- Mud and water everywhere, especially in places it should not be. Many times you are walking down a fairway on solid, if a little muddy, ground. The next step you are ankle deep in water. No. 1 tee was completely covered and obscured by mud. We've had a lot of rain recently in DFW, but with the houses just up the hill, and the creek below, it seems likely water is going to be flowing across the course most of the time.
-- Very little maintenance. Grass/weeds were tall in lots of place. I've seen worse, but this was bad.
-- Too many open, mundane holes. The baskets that are guarded all tend to favor RHBH/LHFH.
-- No amenities (course map, benches, restroom, practice basket).
-- Baskets are not numbered. From many tees, you can see multiple baskets. From others, you can only see one basket, and it is NOT the basket for that hole.

Other Thoughts:

-- For the most part, the best holes have the worst fairways. No. 4 is an interesting 255 foot straight shot between two ponds with deep crap (and a creek at some point) behind it. Nice risk/reward. The problem is that you almost can't get from tee to basket. More than half of the fairway, which looks dry from the tee, is under water. The large stones mentioned in other reviews (some almost as big as a Smart Car) help, but not enough. No. 6 has you throwing between two ponds to a basket protected on the left by trees. Unfortunately, this fairway has the same problem as No. 4. No. 8 is probably a water carry most of the time, but you can't see the water because of reeds and grass that are WAY taller than me. If you don't want to risk life and limb walking through that, you trek almost 100 yards perpendicular to the tee and then 100 yards back to the basket on a 285-foot hole.
-- Nos. 1 (uphill to a basket in the trees that you can't see from the tee), 4, 6, 7 (hyzer following the creek), 8, 9 and 11 (both hyzer shots with baskets protected by trees) are the only interesting holes.
-- This feels like a wasted opportunity. The best feature on the land is the creek that borders it, but the creek is barely in play, and there are no water carries.
-- With some work and added amenities, this course could get to 2.0, maybe even 2.5, but given its location and the extremely limited amount to play it likely receives, that seems unlikely.
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