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Ashland City, TN

John C. Poole Rec. Area

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2.85(based on 5 reviews)
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njgrosser
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Experience: 13 years 46 played 36 reviews
2.50 star(s)

The Ideal Beginner Course 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 25, 2020 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Fresh: The tee pads are new and appropriately sized. The signage is good. The baskets catch well. There is a practice basket available. This course is new and in a well-maintained park, and it shows.

Beginner Friendly: This course is not meant to be difficult. For the beginner player, it is a course to learn how to play the game and to gain confidence on a fairly simple layout. For a developing player, this is a good place to add different shots to your game and maybe start to get some ace runs. For the experienced player, this is AceRun City (a terrible pun of Ashland City), where you almost feel disappointed if you get par.

Cons:

Mixed Use Park: It wasn't particularly crowded when I was there, but a walking path is intertwined with the course and I could see there being some delays to wait for pedestrians to move past.

...Too Beginner Friendly for Experienced Players: Outside of the Ace Runs, there is no real challenge to this course for experienced players, who will probably spend their time throwing an easy 250' drive and parking the hole 9 times out of 9.

That Double Mando on Hole 9: Both reviews posted at the time I wrote mine said something about it, so I will too... It makes no sense on this course, especially with the basket location. At most, a single mando on either side of the left tree would suffice; personally, if it were me, I would have rotated the teepad slightly and forced a mando to the left of the left tree, while keeping the OB road and basket where it is.

Other Thoughts:

This course is good for what it is: a great place to bring the kids, the significant other, or the friend who is just getting into the game. It won't provide much for the experienced player outside of an afternoon of ace runs, but if that's what you're looking for, go ahead and give it a shot!
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