Super great concrete tees now installed, fairly easy to navigate thanks to plentiful next tee arrow signs. This course now gives a lot of balance to what used to be a schizophrenic mix of pitch and putt and long, open holes. It now has open, air it out holes, classic NC wooded holes, some in & out of woods holes and some city park style holes. It's a smorgasbord of disc golf.

The course uses the rolling terrain and woods to great effect, nice elevation change and fairway shapes. It's not a really hilly course but it's definitely not flat and the back 9 can help you feel ok about skipping leg day. The proliferation of wooded holes will make a sidearm game very useful but it felt like a BH dominant player could get up and down most of the holes without complaining about "lefty holes" too much. The gaps can be quite challenging to hit however so precision is a premium. Another great feature are the thoughtful greens on most holes, usually some element of an elevated basket or a sloping green.

Flow-wise the course is intuitive enough once you find hole 1 (very end of the left most parking lot). Lots of arrows pointing the way to short and long tees, some can be elusive but won't require much extra walking. There aren't a lot of unrelated trails to confuse you which is nice. Hole 9 puts you nearby the parking lot so you can play 9 hole loops if you're pressed for time.

I didn't go into detail about the holes design wise above to have something to winge about here. Mostly, I have zero complaints. However, there are a couple of holes that I'd like to play a few times over before I give my blessing. Hole 13 has a lot question marks for me, for example. The long tee has an epic deck location near the dam waterfall that unfortunately is so scenic and chill that it attracts randoms you may have to run off to tee. A minor quibble but the bigger issue is it's tough to gauge where the fairway actually goes through the trees from the tee. It's also asks you to hit very skinny gaps from afar, very reminiscent of nearby Fox Chase. Approaching this basket is also very specious and possibly more luck rewarding than skill rewarding. There are a few holes that share this poke and pray character but 13 seemed to be the most convoluted b/c it combines a blind pin with a maybe too finesse hyzer to the fairway and then an approach littered with more trees. I may have just not seen the lines but I dunno. Beautiful locale though.

My other cons aren't really design related. There were a couple of holes that had some trees that fell over into the fairway, ideally they'd be cut up and removed. Also some of the tee signs were missing or too torn up to be readable.

I really need to play this a few more times to really get a feel for how good it is but I'm okay with that b/c I can see it growing on me while my fondness for Fox Chase wanes. 100% though, the pars are definitely more on point for Blues than at Fox Chase with significantly less weirdly shaped fairways. I'd like to see a few holes have their fairways defined a bit more but that's about it. Hole 1 might be the worst hole actually and it's just an open uphill toss that's mediocre at best so that's a good sign. Definitely worth a visit just to play the really cool terrain on the back 9 with the dam and the rock walls and also the cool deck tees they built. Great course, love Albemarle disc golf.