Goose Landing plays around Richfield Park, with the lake either visible or coming into play on many of the holes. It has DISCatcher baskets, concrete tee pads, teesigns, and two practice baskets. The course features long tees on multiple holes so players of all skill levels will be able to enjoy their rounds here. It is also nice that some of the short tees play very differently from the long tees. For example, Hole 15 Short is a completely different shot shape off the tee compared to Hole 15 long.

The course features a variety of wooded holes, and open holes - but even the open holes have their own danger and risk/reward nature to them. Many of the holes will punish you if you try to get a little too aggressive and are even slightly off, but are relatively easy Par if you just play it safe. Holes 3 and 4 are great examples of this. So accuracy is still a must here.

While there isn't any real elevation in this park, for the course to use, the designers have managed to utilize the extremely limited elevation surprisingly well. That being said, the course is extremely cart friendly.

The course is absolutely beautiful, with Hole 16 standing out as one of the most aesthetic. Despite being tucked in a little nook, where the lake can not be seen, it would absolutely be considered one of the signature holes on the course, over a creek and up a hill. Again, there are multiple ways to play this hole conservatively, but if you get too aggressive off the tee and miss your line early - you will likely be punished hard.

Goose Landing has a very unique feel for the area. Where many holes have many different options to reach the basket. Hole 1 for instance allows for multiple lines through the trees, and what might initially seem like a poke-and-pray hole is actually really well designed in my opinion.

There seemed to be plenty of benches to sit on, and there were even a few covered picnic areas that were in place where you could sit down and rest during the middle of your round.

There are tee signs on every hole, but not at every tee. Hopefully this is something that will change, because some of the tee signs don't have the most accurate diagram. Which is unfortunate because there seems to be a number of new short tees that aren't depicted on the signs or listed here on DGCR.

I loved the way Hole 15 plays as a hole, both from its long tee and its short tee (up the hill, near the flags), but I think it is an obvious safety concern throwing across the street. As fun as the hole is to play - it would be extremely nerve wracking to play on a day where the park was getting a lot of traffic. I think the basket could have been placed on the same side of the road as the tees and the tees merely pushed back some to create similar difficulty.

Holes 7 and 11 play a little too close to the property line with the neighboring farm, and the barbed wire fence creates many issues. This is made even more frustrating due to the wooded nature of these holes, one bad tree kick and you go sailing over the fence.

A few of the holes have weirdly angled doglegs or too many guardian trees around the basket that become frustrating. I am sure there are probably shots that can make the baskets on these holes, but they feel somewhat luck dependent. In the least they seem to slow the pace of play down. If the fairways were shaped out a little more, the round would feel more smooth/enjoyable. Hole 12 comes to mind.

The "safe" play on Hole 5 long, to me, feels so much harder to play than just driving for the basket due to the shape and slope of the island you'd be throwing to. If I were playing the longs and didn't think I had the arm to reach the green, I'd likely just take a two stroke penalty and throw from the short pad (as if I had thrown OB) and save myself the lost disc.

I am rating Goose Landing as a 3.5 for now, but do think that it has the potential for a higher score. This is a fun course with a very unique atmosphere (different from most park courses) with a lot of flavor that allows it to stand out on its own, but with some untapped potential still. So my rating of this course could definitely improve over time, if improvements continue to be made on and around the course.

With this course being so close to City Lake and Fox Chase, it is easy to understand why this course might occasionally be forgotten. However, this should not be the case because this course is outstanding. If you are traveling from out of town to play, a day with all three courses is extremely exciting - as all three courses have their own unique character.

Favorite Blue Holes: 5, 6, 16, 18

great signage. easy to navigate between holes. good variety of shots. we played 2 rounds and only saw 2 people walking the trail. challenging course

not many garbage cans at tees. some small lower branches on fairway trees need to be trimmed

we traveled from charlotte. definitely worth the hour drive. great job on the course design!

Solid course, and well worth the drive from Charlotte. Plenty of benches, navigation made easy by many next hole directional signs. Some lines and fairways very unforgiving. This is a tough, but fair course. Played from the long tee pads, which all have hole layouts maps.

Water carry on 5 requires a big arm.
Water that cuts through 16 is not friendly and hard to see from the tee pad.
Not many trash cans through the course, but shelters at the parking lot had them.

Good distance variation. 4 holes have water in play, power and accuracy needed. Many fairways crowded with trees means accuracy is a must. I found this course very interesting, not much elevation change, some baskets aren't easily seen from the tees. I played very cautiously due to the heavy leaf cover. I also didn't throw over the water on #5, I don't have that kind of power. I used the shorter tee box on the island. I enjoyed this course, although I hit almost every tree possible on a few holes. Signage was good. The long tee box for 16 is located near a parking lot, making this hole close to twice as long. Concrete tee pads on the holes are like new. Directional signs to next tee is present.

There was heavy leaf cover when I played, late November. This isn't any fault of the course, just an observation. Many of the fairways are lined with trees, that always seem to get in the way. The signage for hole 9 confused me a little, I think the distance from blue tee to the right hand turn is short on the sign.

I would like to play this course again in the springtime with less leaf cover and with someone to watch my throws with me. This is a nice course and will return.

I loved this course. There were so many great things about it.
-Wooded and open throws
-Water Carries
-Beautiful woods
- Tee signs were pretty sweet.
- The location of benches was spraypainted. So I know those are coming.
-Tee Pads Long (and narrow 4') and grippy.
-Very little underbrush.

The course playes through some open woods, over a lake (awesome) then through some semi open holes and back into woods again. The holes are kind of short so a selection of fairways and mids should do, with just 1 long bomb on the course. I loved the variety.

I have a few minor then a few major concerns.
-When Trees were cut the logs were left to line the fairway, I have made this mistake before, they just end up getting in the way.
-Stumps need to be cut down to ground level, there are just too many trippers.
-From the longs, a few of the earlyier holes have either really awkward turns or the greens really narrow at the end with secret trees left to guard the baskets. I think hole 9 was one of these.
Major concern.
It is a shame, and really poor design to have the last 10% of a 405' hole finish over a park road. You could throw with no car in sight and still hit it as it traveled along that road. I liked the 3 finishing holes around the water ish, but a bridge on 16 sure would have been nice.

That road shot. I just wasnt needed and I really hope that the course designers move it back to the correct side of the road. It adds nothing and takes away a lot from a great design. There was plenty of room to have a tee pad 150' farther back and have the same long throw with the basket between the entrance sign and lake. Would have been just as boss of a throw and potentially even risky. That was probably the poorest use of a road I have seen and we have quite a few in Charlotte. I marked this review .5 discs lower because of that. With benches, a few trees cut at the greens and that pin on the correct side of the road, this is a strong 4.25 course. It has all the amenties and beauty except elevation. These guys put in a heck of a lot of work and it shows.