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Gainesville, GA

UNG Oakwood DGC

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1.335(based on 6 reviews)
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theskulls
Bronze level trusted reviewer
Experience: 17.9 years 42 played 20 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Choose Your Own Adventure 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:May 10, 2021 Played the course:once

Pros:

I'll be creative here as possible, like I was when I tried to mentally come up with the course I was playing. There are baskets, they are in the ground, there is room to throw on some of the holes, but not much else. No pads, maps on site, signs, indicators as to where to start or where the course even is. Asked at the gym if there was a starting point or map but the maintenance person & another staff member had no idea.

Most of the baskets are away from areas where you'd encounter safety issues and have areas to throw & just make up your course. There was one person filming themselves throwing in the middle of the track, which was the busiest area. So crowds won't be a problem.

You can get in touch with your inner course designer like I did & just pick where you want the hole to start, your par, and even what order you play the holes in as there's nothing to say otherwise.

With that being the case I either had 8 aces when I was practicing a putt at each hole or I shot 16 over when I threw from a distance, who's to say really?

Parking is free, the grass wasn't too high, & the only trash I saw was in the woods behind hole 1 or 7 or hole 3.14.

Definitely look at the aerial map here to at least give you an idea as to what they had in mind, but its of minimal help.

Cons:

This is a disc golf course if you'd consider a field with gopher holes a ball golf course or like when you were kids and made up other sports field with whatever random stuff you had lying around. No signs, no tee pads, not even areas where the grass has been worn away with a number near it, nothing.

Safety can be an issue especially for a couple of holes (1-3?), I guess it would depend on where you threw from.

Other Thoughts:

The land is there & if you had some 4x4s, gravel, & asked some art students to paint you a map on some plywood you could actually have a decent course for not much money or labor. The way it is though its just some random baskets in fields you're throwing at, so I don't know if this could even be considered a course. We played it since a member of our family was getting a COVID shot in the gym, so we were going to be there anyway.
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The Miniac
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 48 years 383 played 35 reviews
0.50 star(s)

100% Waste of time 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 14, 2019 Played the course:once

Pros:

Beautifully manicured campus.
Located close to I-985 for easy access.

Cons:

9 temp baskets that will rarely/barely catch a golf disc, and probably won't be in the same place twice.
Zero indication of tees or signage.
Hole 2 looked to throw directly over the running track, which had at least 100 people walking/running on it.

Other Thoughts:

UNGG has a beautiful campus, but the disc golf set up is NOT a course. They put out temp baskets (with the hole # plate facing away from tee), but beyond that, despite any map that they may hand out, it is NOT a course. At best, it is 'field-work' with a few scattered targets to aim at
The area looks to be conducive to a nice course, but thus far isn't worth the time it took to pull off the Interstate.
We can only hope that this 'minimal-effort-to-try-it-out" doesn't backfire and turn them away from installing a permanent course.
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