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Resurrection Park reviews
9
0
Reclamation Park 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Oct 5, 2020
Played the course:once
Pros:
Resurrection Park is a 9 basket 18 hole course located just off of Bullard Rd. You may have to wind through the parking lot to the other side of the church to reach the course . Aim for the playground area . Your disc will be doing that in a short while . The parking lot is plenty big enough . There were no visible rest rooms near the activity area , and I am not sure if you are allowed to use the church's inside rest rooms .
The Equipment - There are 2 short rubber tee mats per hole . The tee signs were adequate , Attached to wood posts , they had religious sayings at the bottom of each sign . The baskets are yellow banded Discatchers .
The Landscape - The general front area of the park is clean and clear of everything . The back has some woods to it ( more in cons ) , and a man made mound comes into play on a back hole . The parking lot , a retention pond and playground will come into play , as well as a semi trailer and some bushes . This Course Is Flat . Period .
Appearance/Atmosphere - below average . I have to count out the woods because you can't really play any of those holes The middle of the park kind of looks like a wasteland , There is just nothing there to capture your eyes , aesthetically .
The Highlights - I fell for the first time in a long while , but only came out of it with a spider bite and sandspurs and stickers .
The course is a fast play because you will have to miss several of the holes . The problem with a 9 basket 18 hole course setup is that when you have a disaster on the fairways or at the baskets , then they affect ( or in this case , Infect ) 2 holes and not one .
The Equipment - There are 2 short rubber tee mats per hole . The tee signs were adequate , Attached to wood posts , they had religious sayings at the bottom of each sign . The baskets are yellow banded Discatchers .
The Landscape - The general front area of the park is clean and clear of everything . The back has some woods to it ( more in cons ) , and a man made mound comes into play on a back hole . The parking lot , a retention pond and playground will come into play , as well as a semi trailer and some bushes . This Course Is Flat . Period .
Appearance/Atmosphere - below average . I have to count out the woods because you can't really play any of those holes The middle of the park kind of looks like a wasteland , There is just nothing there to capture your eyes , aesthetically .
The Highlights - I fell for the first time in a long while , but only came out of it with a spider bite and sandspurs and stickers .
The course is a fast play because you will have to miss several of the holes . The problem with a 9 basket 18 hole course setup is that when you have a disaster on the fairways or at the baskets , then they affect ( or in this case , Infect ) 2 holes and not one .
Cons:
Yes , mother nature stops for no one and has been in the process of Reclaiming the back part of the course .
#1 Safety - Well , I fell trying to play hole #4 into the jungle by tripping over vines while walking down the fairway . Sandspurs and spiders will eat you alive in there and out of the overgrowth . 9/18 has you throwing at the parking lot or the fenced in retention pond . The basket sits directly behind a semi trailer and in front of the fence . Throwing into an open car window does NOT give you a free drop . My favorite safety hazard is #1/10 . If you could coordinate maybe a playground activity with many insubordinate and unruly children and a lot of disc golfers teeing off on 1 & 10 at the same time , I mean , the playground is right in the line of fire from the tees . you could actually enact a teaching moment from the Bible , the 11th plague , Hard Plastic from the Air . Watch the kids running for the safety of the church while holding their heads . Disc golfers that bean the most kids that weekend can play Moses the next weekend .
#2 Navigation - The posts are numbered incorrectly . Therefore , it is easy to mess up the flow of the course . You will instinctively walk to #'s 2/11 because it is in front of you , but you have to actually walk to your right from the parking lot to play#1 . Just look for the blood spills from the playground and make a right turn and walk to the post .
#3 Overgrowth - Some of these holes are playable , but the 4/13 , 5/14 , and 6/15 are not . Mother nature has swallowed up these holes . You can see hole 4/13 and attempt to throw it , hoping you don't fall , but you really have to search the jungle to find the other 2 baskets . Hint ; Bring a machete . #7/16 has a clear shot to the basket on a man made hill , There is a bush that has consumed the inside and outside of the basket . It isn't worthwhile to try to throw up to it . Skip the hole and declare a made putt if you hit the mound like I did .
#4 I was researching the plagues of Egypt , but I couldn't find the one with burrs spider bites , sandspurs and thorns . Ahh , it's because that plague is in Hope Mills and not Egypt . These can tear you up when playing here .
#5 The fence - The fence at the retention pond needs an accessible gate . This way , people can throw themselves into it after trying to play this course .
#6 It's really a 9 hole course with 9 other tee pads set a little further back and either directly behind or a little off center . It really doesn't change the shot much if at all .
#1 Safety - Well , I fell trying to play hole #4 into the jungle by tripping over vines while walking down the fairway . Sandspurs and spiders will eat you alive in there and out of the overgrowth . 9/18 has you throwing at the parking lot or the fenced in retention pond . The basket sits directly behind a semi trailer and in front of the fence . Throwing into an open car window does NOT give you a free drop . My favorite safety hazard is #1/10 . If you could coordinate maybe a playground activity with many insubordinate and unruly children and a lot of disc golfers teeing off on 1 & 10 at the same time , I mean , the playground is right in the line of fire from the tees . you could actually enact a teaching moment from the Bible , the 11th plague , Hard Plastic from the Air . Watch the kids running for the safety of the church while holding their heads . Disc golfers that bean the most kids that weekend can play Moses the next weekend .
#2 Navigation - The posts are numbered incorrectly . Therefore , it is easy to mess up the flow of the course . You will instinctively walk to #'s 2/11 because it is in front of you , but you have to actually walk to your right from the parking lot to play#1 . Just look for the blood spills from the playground and make a right turn and walk to the post .
#3 Overgrowth - Some of these holes are playable , but the 4/13 , 5/14 , and 6/15 are not . Mother nature has swallowed up these holes . You can see hole 4/13 and attempt to throw it , hoping you don't fall , but you really have to search the jungle to find the other 2 baskets . Hint ; Bring a machete . #7/16 has a clear shot to the basket on a man made hill , There is a bush that has consumed the inside and outside of the basket . It isn't worthwhile to try to throw up to it . Skip the hole and declare a made putt if you hit the mound like I did .
#4 I was researching the plagues of Egypt , but I couldn't find the one with burrs spider bites , sandspurs and thorns . Ahh , it's because that plague is in Hope Mills and not Egypt . These can tear you up when playing here .
#5 The fence - The fence at the retention pond needs an accessible gate . This way , people can throw themselves into it after trying to play this course .
#6 It's really a 9 hole course with 9 other tee pads set a little further back and either directly behind or a little off center . It really doesn't change the shot much if at all .
Other Thoughts:
I never had the privilege to meet Elijah , the pastor here . He put a lot of work into this course and tried to make something happen . I still think that a course on school or church property can serve as an advertisement for that school or church , or a chance to Give something to the community . I was surprised when I found out that the course was only 3 years old , Since the tee pads are portable , the course can still be tweaked or a couple of holes redesigned . A good church-clearing day or 2 could clean up the back of the course . Here's a challenge to the church : Don't give up on it , Resurrect it .
My Recommendation - There is not enough course here to justify coming here , unless you just want to air out and try a new disc and you are a local . At present , do not stop if a traveler , and Course Collectors should stay out of the woods , play what they can , bag the course and move along .
My Recommendation - There is not enough course here to justify coming here , unless you just want to air out and try a new disc and you are a local . At present , do not stop if a traveler , and Course Collectors should stay out of the woods , play what they can , bag the course and move along .
10
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For Masochists 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Oct 6, 2019
Played the course:once
Pros:
Posts with photo diagrams and distances on many of the holes.
Decent baskets.
Obvious initial effort to create a disc golf course.
Decent baskets.
Obvious initial effort to create a disc golf course.
Cons:
Posts and tee sign numbers were off by 2 on holes 1, 2, 3, 10, 11 & 12.
Posts with no tee signs on 4, 5, 13 & 14.
Most 2nd set of tees had too little to differentiate them as additional holes, they were more like a set of pro tee pads.
Blind holes 1/10 & 9/18 were potentially dangerous to people on the basketball course and in the playground. Discs are also pretty likely to go into the retention pond area on these holes.
2/11, 3/12 & 8/17 were long, wide open shots thru near barren fields of sandspurs.
Woods/jungle holes 4, 5, 6, 13, 14 &15 were completely overgrown. The tees were covered in leaves and twigs and had growth up to 6 feet tall all around them.
I gave up looking for a fairway or basket for 5/14 as walking even a few feet thru the woods left me with thorny spikes in all of my clothing, also, no basket was visible from walking around the edge of the jungle from the field.
There was a barely discernible former fairway from post #6.
#7 tee pad was buried 10 feet into the jungle and the basket for 7/16 was up on a sandy overgrown mound with plant growth so thick in the chains that it rejected a putt from 2 feet away.
Posts with no tee signs on 4, 5, 13 & 14.
Most 2nd set of tees had too little to differentiate them as additional holes, they were more like a set of pro tee pads.
Blind holes 1/10 & 9/18 were potentially dangerous to people on the basketball course and in the playground. Discs are also pretty likely to go into the retention pond area on these holes.
2/11, 3/12 & 8/17 were long, wide open shots thru near barren fields of sandspurs.
Woods/jungle holes 4, 5, 6, 13, 14 &15 were completely overgrown. The tees were covered in leaves and twigs and had growth up to 6 feet tall all around them.
I gave up looking for a fairway or basket for 5/14 as walking even a few feet thru the woods left me with thorny spikes in all of my clothing, also, no basket was visible from walking around the edge of the jungle from the field.
There was a barely discernible former fairway from post #6.
#7 tee pad was buried 10 feet into the jungle and the basket for 7/16 was up on a sandy overgrown mound with plant growth so thick in the chains that it rejected a putt from 2 feet away.
Other Thoughts:
Although only 2 years old, the course seems to be abandoned. I was only half way through hole 2/11 when I thought "this might be the worst course I have ever played" (this was #988). I had been besieged by gnats, had sandspurs in my shoes, and I had not even gotten to the spiky thorns and fire ants yet.
Scorched earth might get rid of the sand spurs, possibly Agent Orange for the jungle.
Scorched earth might get rid of the sand spurs, possibly Agent Orange for the jungle.
