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Lumberton, TX

Lumberton DGC

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markmcc
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Experience: 12 years 278 played 254 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Fairways vs. Rough 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Nov 6, 2017 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

I found this to be a really interesting course, and quite different than the 185+ other courses that I've played. The course has wide, mowed fairways that are completely fair, but the OB rough is incredibly thick and hairy. You absolutely must hit your landing areas to score well. The designers carved their desired fairway shapes out of a blank canvas and it plays very well.

The rough offers some amazing risk/reward potential. If you have the arm and (especially) the guts you can throw over the corners and considerably shorten some holes. But if you miss you'll likely lose the disc, or at the very least end up throwing out of a thorny thicket.

The course has a nice variety of straight fairways, gentle bends, and doglegs. The winding creek and small pond add challenge and danger. There are big mature trees along the creek that challenge the "Lightly Wooded" designation.

Holes lengths vary from 220 out to 689 feet with a good distribution of lengths. All but three of the holes offer a "pro" tee and an "am tee". The course is long either way, totaling 6497 feet from the shorts and 8068 from the longs.

All tee pads are big concrete trapezoids with excellent texture. The tee signs offer a good diagram of the hole along with length from both tees. Baskets were in good shape. Three baskets were elevated onto a modest "pyramid" which added a welcome vertical dimension on an otherwise flat course.

Cons:

Flat, flat, flat! This is coastal plain of Texas, and it is well, flat.

You may well lose a disc or two. I lost two, but found one. The rough thick swallows discs. I was sure that I was within 20' of a lost disc, but never found it. Upstream of the pond (Holes 13 & 14) the creek is the color of chocolate milk. Any disc that goes in there is immediately invisible.

No tee signs at the short tees. You have to go back to the longs to see the hole lengths and layout. In many cases you are walking by that tee anyway, but on a few holes you'll have to divert 100' or more to see the sign.

Two or three tee signs were missing.

Other Thoughts:

I played the week after a big tournament, and the course was in top condition. All of the fairways were mowed and the OB was flagged. I wonder how much the fairways grow up between cuttings.

Plenty of parking and a restroom near the first tee. Also a big course map.

The course can be soggy and buggy. So be ready with waterproof shoes, towels, and insect repellent.
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