The biggest 'PRO' for this course is that it IS a course. Here in the dead-zone of disc golf in the midlands of SC, there's not many choices. So we were estatic to get a new course, any course whatsoever in the Columbia, SC metro area. After playing I was equally joyous, dismayed, confused, excited and depressed - all at the same time. Pisgah Park has got to be one of the stangest layouts of any course I've ever played. And with 11 years and 150+ courses under my belt - coastal, mountain, wooded, open etc.- I feel rather qualified in making that statement!
Another good title for this post would have been WTF Park. I mean, what freakin' course in the world do you CROSS hole# 3 to play hole# 2? Hole #10 crosses over Hole#16? To get to #12 you cross over #10, #17 & # 18 (which ends in the middle of the course!). Lastly, hole #17 crosses over #12 and#18!! I know, you're like 'Whaaaaat?" Yeah, exactly...weird, weird weird. The best description I can give you is this: draw and cut-out 18 fairways, put them in your hands, shake aggressively, throw in the air, then let them fall. How they land is how you play!
That's not to say, this course isn't an absolutely bizarrely blast to play. It's almost like golf on acid (though I've never tried it, just thought it to be an apt description). You have amazingly tight holes, wide-ass open bomber holes, up-hill, down-hill, cross-hill...only thing missing is an underground shot.
Back to Lefty's Revenge...this course has 13 holes where righties have to either throw a forehand, turnover or anhyzer shot off the tee. Lots and lots of long right-turning shots. Too be honest, many of these lefty shots are S-turns. Lefty off the tee, righty on your approach. And only 4 holes where you don't have trees or tight fairways to deal with.
Here's a breakdown of holes...
#1 - It's okay, long flat shot across a field, ending in a sharp hyzer to a basket in the woods.
#2 - (after crossing over #3) is a soft anhyzer shot from a small tunnel to a basket about 225' away. Sounds simple, but they put a ginormous 'X' of trees in front of the basket that deflects shots away. Sigh.
#3 - A super hole! Very tight S-turn on a narrow, pine-tree lined fairway. Tough par 4, have yet to see a 3 on it. Lots of 4's & 6's
#4 - 150' laser beam straight, 90-degree right, 90-degree left...and tight. OB long on he drive
#5 - Grab your long range bomber! About 500' slightly down hill on a wide open field with a few trees to navigate
#6 - Reverse of 5...raised basket almost at the #5 tee
#7 - Kareem Abdul Jabar RHBH hook shot! SUPER sharp, 275' drive around the trees to a basket in woods. Throw it HIGH and TIGHT for a shot at a 2
#8 - Perfect, long, narrow, wooded sidewinder shot of 400'
#9 - This hole, with some tweaking, could be close to epic. More of a pitch off the tee to the fairway that runs under a series of oak tree limbs (12' diameter) that extend over the fairway. Gotta go under/over the limbs to have a hyzer shot at the basket
#10 - Another long, turnover, hyzerflip, Anhyzer drivers from RHBH
#11 - SHARP, short forehand, Hyzerflip, Anhyzer drive
#12 - Really nice hole...long, tight, right-turning, hill climbing
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#13 - **My Favorite** - Double mando, 275', left-turning shot that drops out of sight. Flat, hard shot with eagle/tee bird etc puts you on the basket
#14 - yet ANOTHER forehand, Hyzerflip, Anhyzer drive of a bit over 300'. I did chain out once on an ACE, so like this hole too ;-)
#15 - BIG forehand, Hyzerflip, Anhyzer drive (plays beside Hole 5)...500+' HIGH ANHYZER shot with woods playing all the way down the hill
#16 - Forehand, Hyzerflip, Anhyzer drive...you should be good with these by now ;-)
#17 - Pesonally, the way it is set up is top 5 WORST holes in golf. Double mando, 50' toss to landing zone. From there forehand, Hyzerflip, Anhyzer drive to the basket. Move the basket more inline with the basket and it would be a long, soon anhyzer shot. As it is...it sucks.
#18 - Forehand, Hyzerflip, Anhyzer drive yada yada yada