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Goldsboro, NC

Kiwanis DGC

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New013
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Experience: 13.8 years 179 played 120 reviews
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Walk the Plank..s 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 25, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

Layout - The biggest strength here is the diversity. There's a blending of open and wooded holes so you flow in and out and keeps the round fresh. There's also a great balance in shot types and allowing players to choose how to attack.

I had to think on a few occasions what my play was, there's some unconventional looks. I played several skip shots off the tee.

There's a decent balance in mixing up hole lengths and how the holes create difficulty. Such as early tight gaps, late gaps while having to finish left or right.

The elevation in the park is limited but used cleverly. There's some nice downhill tosses and the tee shot for 12 uses the little mound in a nifty way to create difficulty with a gap.

There's a few longer par 3's where you can let one fly a bit, some fun shots such as 15.

A sprinkling of OB here and there, including a creek.

Equipment - Medium sized concrete trapezoids for tees on most holes; they work fine for this course. The baskets are in good condition. Holes have signs indicating which # it is. They've put down wooden walkways in the swampy areas.

Atmosphere - Multi-use park with a few nice looking holes; mostly those in the meadow type areas.

Cons:

Layout - From a strict design standpoint the biggest issues are where the course butts up against the baseball field and parking lot; As well as some forced in filler holes to complete 18.

The course is definitely crammed in to the space it's given and it suffers from that in multiple ways.

I had to skip two holes due to there being a baseball game and people hanging out on two fairways. I also felt uncomfortable throwing hole 3 due to some people tailgating in the area next to it.

The course goes down in to a wooded back part which honestly probably shouldn't be used for disc golf because it's so swampy and overgrown. The rough down there and even on some of the higher parts is ungodly bad. You can easily kick off a tree and end up somewhere you probably don't want to walk or even lose discs.

The winter and spring may be better back there but as of now the course either needs some serious TLC and just more traffic to help beat those areas in some which would help but still not stop the low lying areas from being wet.

There's an odd flow in parts where it does mini circles and loops back on itself. Can be confusing especially with no course map.

Single pads; I think an extra shorter set of pads on the longer open holes might encourage a different demographic and help get more traffic on the course.

Equipment - As I just mentioned this course could really benefit from a course map at the start. The tee signs are just numbers with no hole map or distance info.

Some of the tees in the back are off of the decking walkways. That's just crappy and dangerous considering how slick deck boards get when wet.

Atmosphere - This could be a nice looking park/course with a whole lot of love and foot traffic. As is it's pretty much a bug infested swamp jungle in the back woods area. I was more playing to not have to get in to the rough more so than trying to attack the hole.

There's quite a bit of trash around the park especially in the creek. The creek looked disgusting I'd hate to end up in there.

Other Thoughts:

To me this was an area that was more suited for a 9 holer. You could of skipped the back area and not put holes right up against the baseball fields; possibly expanding on some other holes with the added area instead of splitting it up so much.

It does have some really interesting attributes but the negatives outweigh the positives. I could see this course having possibly 3 disc potential but the issues drag it down.
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