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Burlington, NC

Pleasant Grove Community Center

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2.675(based on 6 reviews)
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BrotherDave
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Experience: 16.8 years 192 played 189 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Pleasantly Grovey 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 15, 2020 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Nine holes of undeniable disc golf with the potential for more. The course features seven tightly wooded holes bookended by long, open field holes. Open up your round with distance drivers than put them away for seven holes until hole 9. The wooded part is putters and mids all the way, unless you like to get freaky with rollers and overhands, etc. Hole 1 is wide open but the basket is so locked down that Gary Payton would find it obsessive. The wooded holes are generally straight shots with a slight lefty/FH bias. Most of these are very ace-able, extremely so from the short tees which are often in jump-putt range. Hole 9 is absolutely wide open, like surface of the moon open.

Not a whole lot of disc golf in this area so this is a nice warm-up spot on your way to more fertile grounds. The open holes let you get some field work in whereas the wooded holes hone that technical, finesse game.

Cons:

Natural tees, very natural in regards to the longs (I expect this to change). The short tees are tamped gravel but will probably suffice with the traffic this course will see.

Navigation isn't great but it's not a very large space to get lost in either. Had no probs finding tees but the longs are currently marked only with flagged stakes in the ground so not exactly permanent.

Holes 2-7 are very shoehorned in this stand of woods. It's not bad but holes 6, 7, and 8 are very cluttered together. Could be a pain in the Avenger SS if there are many players on the course. Hole 6 in particular is a bad, obvious filler hole.

There's a lot of annoying viney briers but this is a new course so that's to be expected. It plays around a recycling area and perhaps relatedly there are lots of old bricks dumped around the woods. The ground is uneven enough with dead trees without these hazards.

Other Thoughts:

I'll probably never play this course again except to break up the drive on my way to Roxboro but it's not that bad. I don't think there's much differently I'd do with it in regards to design. I'm curious to see if it gets expanded to 18 holes in the future. My gut feeling is that you could make a really fun 9 hole course using the combined land of the current nine holes and the future holes. But 18 on this property is pushing it. But I've seen much, much worse. I'll probably upgrade my rating in the future to a 2.5 tops if it gets beat in nice and long tees are installed.
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