Nice technical wood shots with a few open long holes for variety. Very pleasant.

Dirt tee pads.

Some tees are very close to the previous basket. Could cause problems if the course was crowded, but I didn't have any problems.

O.T. Sloan Is a pleasant, short-to-mid-range course. Plenty of enjoyable layouts makes for a good round.
- Course is seemingly getting a makeover. As such, when I played in September '19, there were holes were the tee sign and basket number did not match. If you follow the basket number, you'll be fine.
- Plenty of birdie chances and/or ace runs here. 11 of 18 holes have 'listed' distances of less than 250 feet. All 11 of these holes are in the woods, so there's still an element of challenge to them.
- Easy navigation. You pull up in the parking lot and the first tee is steps away. From there, most transitions are straight forward and/or are aided by next hole signs. On an aside, maybe a local can explain why the next hole signs are in the shape of airplanes? I'm missing the connection.
- Front nine is exclusively wooded. Back nine has some open layouts. A common theme of the open holes is to tee off in the grass and have the basket and putting circle back in the woods. You see this on #10, 15, and 16.
- A small but significant touch. Each basket has a large pink marker on top. It's not easy spotting a grey metal basket in the woods. It is easy, however, spotting a large pink marker on top. I wish more courses had this.
- Good course for beginners and casual players. With an average hole length under 250 feet, big arms aren't needed. Little chance to lose discs. Wooded holes are generally very forgiving. Even a first timer should be able to make a couple excellent shots while not having (m)any disaster holes.
- Hole #3 may be the best on the course. A downhill, wooded layout that plays a fair amount longer than the listed 184 feet (seemed much closer to 250 feet). If I had thrown the correct disc, it might have been a good shot. Or, I'd just hit another tree 40-feet further down the fairway.
- This seemed like a nice small-town park. A nice swimming pool, with lanes, maintained tennis courts, dog park, and a rec center. When I played on a Saturday afternoon, two of the three parking lots were completely empty. I had to make sure the park wasn't closed.

The current design/navigation issues will need to be addressed and sooner than later. For all I know, this has been an issue for two weeks, two months, or two years.
- Of those issues, multiple hole distances are incorrect. #3 was a good 50 - 75 feet longer than its listed length. #10 was probably 75 feet shorter than listed. #11 wasn't close to 405 feet. #14 played much longer than its listed length. Several others were clearly wrong as well.
- A complete lack of consistency in the tee areas. #1 was sand. Several were indeed concrete tee pads. Several were dirt; some were marked with spray paint; some were ambiguous areas; and then #18 was brick pavers. It's semi-acceptable on a short course. It wouldn't be on a longer, better layout.
- More navigation issues. After #3, there's a sprayed painted box on the ground. That makes you think this should be the tee pad for #4. I play the hole, which was also had an incorrectly listed hole length, putt out at the basket for #4, walk to a concrete tee pad, and see a tee marker for hole #4. Umm, what?
- On the back nine, this is where the redesign breaks down. I never saw any tee markings for #13, so I keep walking and hoping to find one. Instead, I find the basket. I'm guessing there was something in the ground I missed.
- Any one of these problems can be forgiven. When they're all piling up - not sure if you're on the correct hole, not sure a hole's length, not sure if you missed a hole, etc. - it gets frustrating.
- I didn't notice any basic amenities on the course - benches or trash cans - at any point. I don't know if the rest rooms or water fountains are accessible in the rec center building.

The best thing about Sloan is that its problems can all seemingly be easily fixed. Get someone out to the course with a wheel to re-measure the layouts. That problem is fixed. Make sure each tee marker exists and is correct. Two easy fixes. It would take a couple of locals one Saturday morning to make the course better.
- I intentionally left as many hole numbers out of my review. Based on previous reviews, its clear many holes have been renumbered in the redesign. Take for example, there's a tee marker for #18 next to the parking lot. That doesn't exist anymore.
- The front nine, with its wooded layout, a hint of elevation, and risk/reward quotient, it's a perfectly fun short-course play. It's got a lot of vibes of Elon Eager Beaver's layout in Charlotte.
- The back nine does step up the level of difficulty and length. I didn't use a driver/fairway-driver once on the front nine but did use it six times on the back nine. You're going from a lot of holes in the 200 - 250-foot range on the front, and more in the 275 - 350 on the backside.
- The wooded holes are more than fair. There's plenty of room to carve shots around trees. The only tight fairway was #3. That was also the only hole I was tempted to throw multiple shots for fun.
- Based on the propensity for small-town courses to get overrated by locals, I was concerned this course had a sub-3.0 rating. Based on my rating scale, that rating is pretty close to spot on. Compared to other courses of the same length and challenge, this course does compare favorably to Elon Eager Beaver (Charlotte), Wellspring (Burlington - sorry BD doesn't like my 3.0 rating for that course) and Cornwallis (Durham).
- I feel good about giving this course a 2.5 rating. Once the redesign is complete and signage, etc. is updated, this will be closer to a 3.0 in my book.

O.T. Sloan is a fun wooded, mostly very short course that, unfortunately, looks like is on its way to extinction. More on that in the cons, but first, the pros:

+ The front 9 is a very fun beginner- to intermediate-friendly technical course. There's good variety and tight lines for a good challenge. The most similar course that I've played is Cornwallis in Durham. It's old school. Only putters and mids needed off the tee on the front 9.

+ Easy navigation *on the front 9.* I kind of feel like I'm reviewing two courses and then averaging the ratings. The front 9 gets a 3.0 from me. The back 9 gets a 1.0 and the average is 2.0.

+ Despite the short holes on the front 9 and most of the back 9, there is a wide variety of shots needed. Lots of ace runs too.

+ This is a popular public park with other amenities, namely the pool. This is a con too, I guess, as the course is getting pulled hole by hole for other projects like a dog park and community center.

As I said, I really enjoyed the front 9 (front 10, actually), but the last 7 holes (my math isn't wrong: 1 hole has been pulled) we're not as fun and navigation and overgrowth are big issues.

- This course won't be your favorite if you've got a big arm or get bored with pitch-and-putt style courses.

- One major problem on the front 9 was the close proximity to a major road on one hole. An errant shot could easily end up in a heavy-traffic road.

- Anorher safety issue, this time on the back 9, is a hole that would/should be a lot of fun and a break from the style of the rest of rbe course: hole 15, a long, open, downhill hole that happens to be next to the public (very busy) pool. If you grip-lock or accidentally hyzer, you could seriously hurt a swimmer.

- The fatal flaw of this course is the slow destruction of the back 9. A dog park caused one hole to be relocated (making the old DGCR map incorrect in its numbering the rest of the way). The new Hole 10 is a fun, longer, more open hole, but then the trouble really starts. Hole 11 is across a large field parallel to a fenced construction site. The field is completely overgrown with nasty weeds. Also, there's a risk of disc loss in the construction site. To top it off, there are no tee signs and it's a 400-foot hole to a hard-to-spot basket. You have to walk a good ways to even see where you're throwing to. Then hole 12 is no longer there, so you walk back across the field. Hole 13, which you eventually find, if you're lucky (again, no signs or maps) is a basket only; choose your own adventure tee pad. Holes 14-18 are mostly ok (except for 15, mentioned earlier), but overall, not as fun as holes 1-10. The navigation problems get annoying.

- No bands on the opd baskets, so they are hard to see. Combined with a lack of tee signs with hole layouts and you're forced to walk up fairways to see where you're throwing.

- Small or non-existent tee pads

Try out O.T. Sloan while you still can! I recommend playing 1-10 , then skipping over to 14. Skip 15 if you're worried about the swimmers.

For being such a small town, I was pleasantly surprised at this 18 hole course.

The course is situated in a nice community park, and rambles throughout most of it.

Although this course isn't as polished as some and lacks some basic ammenities, it still ranks high on the fun factor.
A challenging front 9 plays through the tight pine woods, and although mostly short holes, still plays pretty tough if you're not careful.

The back 9 starts to change scenery and opens up a bit, throwing through and across a field, and adding a bit more variety to the course. There's even a bit of elevation change towards the end of the course, throwing downhill.

Although fun, this course lacks some of the basics. Some of the tees are concrete, but it seemed like a majority were natural tees. Normally, no big deal, but some of these had roots, etc. in the "tee area" and made it a bit awkward for a run up. I also felt the tee sign itself was a bit close to the tee pad on a few holes. It may not have been close enough to hit anything, but it certainly was close enough for me to move over to the side of the tee box.

The navigation here can be a bit tough. There aren't any signs or indicators of direction here that I saw, aside from just looking around and seeing the next tee. It appeared that the new dog park has possibly changed the layout of the course, so there is an old tee and tee sign, a red herring!

On the front 9, some of the fairways were mighty mighty close to tee pads for other/next holes. If it were a busy day (doubtful here), It could be a real hazard. Not great layout design. To piggyback off of the not great layout, there is one hole that plays very close to a semi busy road. One wrong kick off a tree, and you're in the road. Less than ideal

Some of the holes also felt a bit thrown together. There seemed to be no real fair fairway, just a few possible routes with a hope and a prayer. I'm a tree hugger for sure, but one or two trees removed, or a tee box moved 30ft one way or the other could potentially help this.

Although this course isn't as polished as some of the others in NC, it still was a fun course to play.

It plays semi-quick for an 18 hole course, so if you're driving through, I would stop in and play a quick round.

Cliff notes:
Fun disc golf, course needs some work. Would play again, just wouldn't go out of my way to play it.

Baskets are in good shape. Benches on most of the holes.
Fairly quick play, due to the shorter holes on the front 9.
Several holes on the back 9 are open, allowing you to let some drives fly.
Fun, downhill tee shot on #15. Just don't hyzer one into the pool.
Shorter, gravel tees on most holes.

Several of the holes on the front 9 are close together and almost overlapping.
A couple on the front nine also play close to the entrance road, a busy road, and parallel another park entrance.
The majority of the holes on the front 9 had tight lines, they are short holes, but tight lines you have to hit.
Only facilities available are the seasonal swimming pool.

I felt this would be a good everyday course. With no other course within 15 miles, this is a good course for this small town. It looked like the local club is pretty active here.
After all the thick woods on the front 9, #10 and #11 play through a semi-wooded area, there are trees but they are sparse. (More on these twins later.)
#12 is starts open, next to the tennis courts, but then you have to go up an embankment to a basket in the woods.
#14 has a wide open tee shot, then the woods funnel you down to a narrow green.
#15 plays from an elevated tee down to the basket 300 feet away. Since the pool borders the left side of the fairway, they had moved the basket (permanently ?) to the edge of the woods on the right, at the top of a ridge. Not nearly as interesting.
#18 takes you back to the parking lot, then you drive back into the woods.
When I played several months ago, there were signs all over 10 and 11 saying that area was to become the dog park. Not sure if that has been done, but if these two are replaced with two more heavily wooded holes, this rating drops a half disc.
As I said, I see this as a fun everyday course, tight, wooded holes that can be birdied and more open, rip it holes later.

Tight wooded technical challenge if you like that kind of course. The designers of the course tried to make it interesting by placing baskets behind tree obstacles and in places that would be interesting to throw to (Ex: #12 over a small drainage pond and up a small hill and into the trees in a narrow lane to the basket. #15 Aceable shot that makes you shoot from inside to outside the trees on an elevated hill, and into the trees on the right, and a few others). There is elevation present throughout the course, though it is very subtle (Ex: #17 down a small decline through the trees, #2 straight up a hill through a wide corridor, #4 down a small decline to the left, #12 increased elevation at the end of the drive up to the basket).

Signage is minimal to non-existant on some holes making it difficult to find where you are supposed to tee off at next and also adds to the difficulty of navigating the course due to its very compacted nature which will take you into the driving lanes of other holes if you just wander about (especially in the first 9 holes #1-#9 and the back 3 #16-#18).

Some of the holes are lined next to the roadway with a good stream of traffic even on the weekends (#6 is parallel to the road, #5/#7/#8 /#9 all shoot near or towards the vehicle path to the tennis courts).

There is a water drainage area with no relief on holes #12 and #13 which can get extremely muddy for throwers whose discs land in the standing water.

The teepads are extremely worn out and dug in. What this means is that if it rains, the recessed area that is the teepad will fill with water and mud, which makes them almost unusable. Everyone I've seen on this course uses the far ends of the teepad to throw.

I believe ratings and reviews are highly subjective. My review reflects my experience playing the course over the course of a year and with an intermediate level of playing experience. I understand that others may have a different view and different opinions. My review will attempt to be as unbiased as possible. Other thoughts that are neither a pro or a con as they are subjective to the player and their preference on what they feel a disc golf course should be:

This course is compact, but the designers worked with what they had. I also don't blame the designers for removing baskets #10 and #11 because the parks system put a dog park right on it. There is a lot of potential for growth in the trees behind the dog park and next to/behind #12/#13 to expand. This course does however need signage markers for the majority of the course, new teepads (gravel fill in would work temporarily because of the backup drainage of mud and water into the current teepads), and warning markers next to the baskets that play along the roadways. Errant throws by novices on #5/#6 could easily bounce and land either on the high-traffic roadway, or in the worst case hit a car (I played here in a tournament where I saw someone throw, bounce a disc off a tree on #6 and skimmed across the roadway.. luckily a car didn't get hit by a flying disc). Road signs for vehicles to be aware of flying discs, and also for the players to be cognizant of vehicular traffic on the roadways next to those baskets would prevent/reduce any future accidents.

This course is a good course for players that love a technical challenge as it puts you inbetween trees and through the trees in interesting basket positions. As the majority of this course is sub 300ft, with half the baskets at <200ft, it is a fairly short course that is best for players who are getting used to throwing between the trees and new players that may not have the arm strength to drive very far. Novices and Recreational players will appreciate the challenge to their game playing here as it has various obstacles that will further improve their skill and force them to think about shot selection (elevation up/down, technical dog legs, open drives within tight corridors, etc.). Intermediate to Advanced players will find this to be a typical course that may not challenge them to their abilities on all holes. Though that may be the case, this course does have a few interesting basket placements that will interest most higher level players, even if the majority of the course does not. Whatever your skill level, this course will have something that will interest you. If you are in the area try it out. If you live over 30mins away, this may not be the course for you unless it's the only course nearby. Anyways, try it out and see if you like it!

Short and woodsy, so definitely an accuracy course. Nice pads and baskets. Signage was in good shape.

A little repetitive, since there are only really 3 holes that are open-ish. Could use a bit of limb maintenance.

Pretty fun course through the woods that had a bit more variety to make it memorable. The tee box of 18 would make an awesome hole position for #15!

The front nine is typical North Carolina. It's heavily wooded. Tight fairways with punishing rough. Most of them are pretty short, typically under 200 feet. It's a solid course for beginners and novices have the benefit of extra tees that are even shorter. It's a fun course for them to get accustomed to the type of bigger courses that they will find in the area. At the same time better players shouldn't be too bored by the hole design.

The back nine is mostly open and longer. What's great here is that beginning players can get accustomed to both types of holes. While they may not be able to drive the entire distance on these holes, they will have the opportunity to try. For better players, it's nice to have the opportunity to open up a bit in Carolina. 10 and 11 are particularly nice as they feature a few trees, and drives will have to be shaped a bit.

The front nine is more Anderson Park than Valley Springs. The lines aren't clean, meaning that trees are often in fairways instead of lining them. Additionally these holes are too close together at times, meaning to get from a basket to a tee, you often have to walk across the fairway you just finished. Some tees are also in the firing zones of other tees. for both reasons, it may not be the best course to play when it's busy.

The back nine is fairly simple if you can drive 300 accurately. I also worry slightly about 12 and 13, which parallel a tennis court. The fence is fairly high, but with potential new players, I don't doubt that some lefties have put discs on the court. I'm still more worried about 16 though. I can see a player, a few rounds in to their career and gaining some distance, climbing up to the tee, trying to power one out and watching it fade left, and left, and left, and right into the pool.

When you combine the two nines, you get a nice variety that will be a solid learning experience for new players and a fun enough day for everyone else, but nothing special.

Layout - It's a decent technical style wooded course. You'll have to shape the disc a bit but it's mostly hitting straight tight gaps on most holes.

There are a few longer holes (but no bombers) and a couple with some good elevation change.

There's OB around some baskets and fairways to make it even more challenging, it's short but not an easy course.

Course flows pretty good, no confusing parts. 1-9 is a loop back to the parking lot. The park itself has other facilities.

Atmosphere - In an older park that's still in good shape.

Equipment - Concrete pads. Baskets are older but still in good shape. Hole Distance shown on post. Benches on each hole.

Layout - Not that much variation throughout the course. Many holes are repeated. Only some of the holes have real elevation change.

There's nothing that makes the course really stand out. You play near the road and other park facilities a bit so that takes away from it.
Some of the next tees are close to baskets.

Atmosphere - Not the best looking park in NC, it's just kind of average. You definitely don't get a remote feeling out there.

Equipment - Some of the pads are short. No real tee signs. Baskets are getting old.

I'm not a huge fan of this course, it is what it is. It's a good place to work on your short game and hitting tight gaps but definitely not a course to travel to. It's good for the locals because there isn't much else in the area.

-The course was easy to find.
-Signage was better than expected. And the course is CLEAN and well maintained.
-The BEST part about this course is that you can play 18 holes pretty quick.
-The front 9 are shorter more controlled type of shots.
Hole 1: Straight shot, semi-tight alley way.
Hole 2: Uphill shot, a little over 250', you can fade left into the wood line and still be alright.
Hole 3: Dog leg left, it's farther away than you think mainly because of the trees blocking the basket
Hole 4: Dog leg left, it's a little bit of a downhill shot, it cuts pretty hard the the left.
Hole 5: Straight shot maybe 175' possible ACE!
Hole 6: You can attack this hole three ways, straight, left, or right. There are some trees in the way, I'm guessing this makes up for Hole 5.
Hole 7: Straight shot, TIGHT alley, but doable. Very possible birdie if you keep it straight.
Hole 8: Slight dog leg right.
Hole 9: Straight shot, another TIGHT alley, but you can throw the right of the basket and have it arch back in.
Hole 10: Straight shot, I'd recommend throwing RH forehand on this hole and use the line through the trees.
Hole 11: Straight shot, it's tricky because you've got the road to your right which I assume is OB, and the basket is tucked between several trees.
Hole 12: Another straight shot, there's a tennis court to your right and a small "puddle" you have to carry.
Hole 13: Another straight shot, again tennis courts to your right.
Hole 14: Another straight shot, it's longer than the previous two and you can use a driver because the fairway is wide enough. It bottle necks as you get closer to the basket.
Hole 15: Probably the BEST hole on the course. Throwing from the top of the hill with the pool to your left. It's 300+ but it a possible ACE if you can control your shot.
Hole 16: Through the woods and up the hill. Several lines you can take, it's not a tight fairway, just awkwardly crowded with trees.
Hole 17: Slightly downhill dog leg left. You can end up way left and still be alright.
Hole 18: Straight shot, starts out open but becomes a very tight alley way once you get within 100' of the hole.
-Lots of birdie opportunities, but most of the holes are just straight shots. Front 9 short/easy, Back 9 had a little difficulty in terms of obstacles and multiple ways of playing each hole.
-Hole 15 is a lot of fun, glad they moved the basket back.
-The park wasn't crowded, and this is a good course to work on your short game, accuracy and control.

A lot of the holes are straight shots. You might have some trees in the way on the back 9.

Overall, I think the course is beginner friendly. Every hole is an easy three, several shorter holes are long 2's.

Very good layout especially for the available terrain! Excellent variety of technical & open holes with a few elevation changes! You'll definitely have to play every shot in your bag! #10 & #11 are monster par 3's & #15 is one of the COOLEST holes you'll ever play!

Some of the natural tee pads are short with roots exposed! The course is in a public park so those who don't play tend to trash it up some times! The park employees do the best they can!

Over all a very challenging course! Short but Sweet! Would like to see some of the 30+ sponsors put a little more money & time into the course! (TeePads) It has the potential to be top notch! #15 has a summer basket placement! Considerably shorter but well protected by massive trees on a hill! Got my first ACE on this one!

Its the first course I played on, and its not bad for beginners.It has a well rounded mix of terrain and elevation changes. The front 9 is short, but requires acturately placed shots. The back 9 is open and a little more forgiving.

There are some holes that are missing tee pads; 3, 14, & 17 really need them. Its a public park with the local ymca neighboring it, so you have non-players coming through and leaving trash everywhere.

Myself and a few friends are trying to talk our bosses into sponsoring the course and hopefully getting some new tee pads and maybe a weekly cleaning crew, although i don't know how much that will help.

-great lay out
-great for people who just started playing
-great local community
-play it at least 4 times a week ..and it never gets old

-tee pads needs some work (they are fixing them)
-wish they had better signs

It was not crowded.
There were no water holes.
Back 9 had some challenging holes.
Easy to find next hole.
Not much undergrowth.
Long tee pads (where there are any)

Several holes close to the road.
Baskets hard to spot; not bright yellow.
On a few holes, there was no good path to the basket.
No concrete pads on "novice" tees; pads on about half of the other tees.

It was not an extremely exciting place to play. 2 of the holes ran parallel to the road through a section of woods. Would have been easy to hit a tree and bounce into traffic. 10 is an open hole with the road 30 feet or so beyond the basket. 15 (I think) was my favorite: throw from a hilltop across a field to a basket 300 feet away. My best drive of the day (and I still got a bogie).

This is about what I expect from a dg course. It's in a public park; we don't have to pay to use it; there's very little tax money allocated for this sport. Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised by a public course. But I'm not really in a position to demand more.

I was excited about going to Fins Furs and Feathers to check out what I hear is a very good selection of dg equipment. But the owner has been rearranging the setup, and the dg stuff was in a locked room. I was outa luck. Then I was hoping to play a good round of dg, but I was outa luck there too. I don't know if this is because of the baskets, or because I wasn't throwing very well today, but a couple of putts seemed to hit the chains perfectly, and kicked back out.

If I'm in the area again, I'll probly play this course again, but I drove about 50 miles to go there, and it wasn't worth that to me.

Not a bad little course, and old school as heck. Lots of tight technical turns and places to splash OB. pretty good overall layout, tee pads are pretty well done.
If you like throwing thumbers through tight woods this course is for you. Any decent thrower can score in the -'s on this course without much effort. It is a nice little course for putting around and practicing midrangs/utility shots.

Putt Putt course. Front nine had no holes over 200feet it seemed and the majority (90%) were just straight shots at the basket with little to no turns. Very bland. If you can throw it straight 200 feet you can -5 or -6 this course
very easily. THICK leaves. friends lost 3 discs in 4 holes, all 100% covered with 3-4 foot deep dead leaves. next to no maintenance and the holes are ON TOP of each other in some cases people driving almost over you going the opposite direction. A little confusing on the layout when you switch to the back nine as well. some signage would be nice.

Its an OG course, I understand. It needs a facelift, bad. It cant compare to any other course Ive played, even just 9 hole courses are more fun to play twice than this in most cases.

This course is a beginner friendly layout with excellent variety of open and technical holes that makes for a fun course to play. The front nine and 16-18 are short and technical while most of the back nine (10-15) are longer and slightly more open.

Holes 9 and 18 loop back to the parking lot so you can go play a quick nine if you want and you don't have to hike back to your car.

Lost disc risk is very low

Benches on every hole.

Most of the holes have fair and attainable lines and the greens are open enough that you won't find yourself with a wall of trees in front of you 20ft from the basket.

A lot of work is being done on the course to make it even better. There were signs of fresh cutting on 16 and 17 (or maybe a lot of fallin trees)

Concrete Tee-pads have been added on many of the holes (mostly the long ones)

many of the holes will be easy and short for the better players.

While there are concrete pads being put in not all of the holes have them (Doesn't affect my view on the course but some don't like natural pads) also some of the concrete pads are short and awkward.
Even though these are mostly on shorter holes there should still be more room

A few holes come very close to a busy road which could be a problem or danger if someone throws an errant shot.

Some of the tee pads are very close to the previous basket and someone could easily be hit.

I also don't remember seeing many trashcans if any on the course.

Overall it was a very fun course to play and was relatively well kept. Nothing fancy and not your championship caliber course but it is defiantly worth a stop if you're in the area

- Course layout is fairly intuitive - even with no map, you can pretty easily find the right hole.
- Distances on the
- Am teeboxes as well for beginners.
- Decent variation of tight, wooded, typical NC course for front nine and more open, air-out for the back nine (over the whole course, but somewhat repetitive - see below).
- Even though it was wooded, there is minimal underbrush, so there is minimal risk for losing a disk.
- 15 is a very cool hole - as mentioned in other reviews.

- Tee pad variations - the dirt was fine, some were under construction - I am somewhat concerned with how the paver blocks they were installing will wear over time (will they stay level?).
- Some of the front nine are a little repetitive - just another tight shots through trees.....
- Two holes (6 & 7 I think) throw parallel and within 50' of the busy street that you just drove on - bad news for an errant RHBH throw. I really don't like them
- The course is tight, and several of the teeboxes are very close to, or you backtrack back down the fairway to throw for the next holes, so it definitely would slow down heavy traffic (although it was empty when I played).

- one of the weirdest vibes I have gotten - I went mid-day mid-week, and there was a ton of traffic through the parking lotto the YMCA and a lot of "loitering cars" - people were just watching you. There was nobody on the course, which I like just fine, just concerned that if I "went missing", nobody 'cept the folks who done it would notice.
- The course has a "worn" feeling. All the baskets are there, some are missing the number. Would be nice to have signage with hole layout, or course map at the beginning instead of the old school sponsor's list.
- The course had some trees/branches down (holes 16 and 17) from either the spring tornadoes or Irene, but it was in decent shape considering the damage that was done in other parts of Sanford.
- Decent course - I wouldn't recommend just coming the the Triangle to play that course, but if you're here, you may as well!

A few ace runs but require a tight line, quiet and never crowded, 15 is a beautiful hole and worth bragging to friends about, good variety of throws

Not very many holes that challenge you distance wise, not much change in elevation other then 2 and 15

I enjoyed the back 9 more then the front 9. Woods make you throw your line and make the lack of distance a littel more challenging, a nice course but only worth the trip out from Raleigh/Cary if you stop and play Swinging DBs or Buckhorn on way back.

I went to this course for the first time expected a somewhat rundown course that was poorly designed. I was surprised as it was neither. The holes were fun to play, a birdie is possible on all yet its challenging enough that some trees cost me too many bogeys. The course is well maintained, I ran into the club playing doubles, I wish I had know about it!

Holes are short. The course uses elevation and trees to make it more challenging, but theres a lot of short holes. It would be nice to see some cement tees. As noted in other reviews theres a hole way too close to the road. I had a drive get away from me and I missed the road by a few feet.

This course reminds me a lot of Kentwood in Raleigh. Short holes, but enough chances for you to screw up that it still has some challenge to it. The missing basket has been replaced!

Signs at every tee to indicate hole number and distance. Fairly easy to navigate, especially once you've played it once or twice. Good use of OB makes a fairly easy course more challenging. Despite what a previous reviewer stated, there is a well defined fairway on every hole, some of them are just very narrow as is typical of NC courses. Decent variety of shot types, and multiple "fairways" on many holes. I gave this course an extra .5 on my rating due to the very cool signature hole #15. As previously stated, Fins Firs and Feathers just up the road has great selection. Novice tee indicators. Very friendly and active locals.

Still majority natural tees, I believe. Scenery is not great as it is in the middle of town, but it is convenient to grab a quick lunch and play a second round. Only one layout, so I could see it getting boring. Hole 13 basket was stolen, but they brought another for the monthly I just played.

Saw a 5+ foot black snake near the basket of hole #2, so if you are scared of snakes pay attention. The duck flies at midnight. Go see Chuckster up at Fins Furs and Feathers right up the road, and have him show you the Spike Hyzer Cooler Competition Bag!