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Wendell, NC

Wendell DGC

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Reviewed: Played on:Sep 7, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

There is potential here as there is some good terrain and a lot of the holes have a base to develop on. There is a nice variety between wooded and open holes and there is some real distance for those who want it. There is even a little bit of elevation on a few of the holes. It looks like some work is still happening and if that is true than a 3.0 is definitely possible here, maybe even a 3.5.
There are some very challenging holes here. Extremely long, extremely narrow holes that would be noted for their difficulty in Charlotte. I'm talking over 500 feet down a channel that would be difficult on a 150-foot hole. Players that would like to test their mettle would enjoy those.

Cons:

However, I'm not sure if it will ever reach that potential. I was going to come home and write that the course will be better when maintenance starts but from the looks of the pictures, this course was in better shape a few months ago. It isn't that the rough is rough, here. The fairways are rough. Most of the wooded holes have fairways with knee high vegetation across the larger part of them.
There is also a huge issue of backtracking. Almost every hole features a walk back along a fairway to find the white and red tee. The blue tee features even more of a back-track. Lengthening the holes to this extent really makes the maintenance difficult. Ambition has gotten the better of this design. By featuring shorter holes that did not require the back-track, there would be a lot less fairway to maintain and the resources wouldn't be stretched as much. (The holes would be better too)
I am unsure if they are done removing large trees but I'm hopeful if they aren't. There are quite a few holes that don't offer what we would traditionally think of as a fairway. Just no path that a disc can follow to the hole. In many cases, the course takes advantage of preexisting pathways but where it doesn't, trees were sparingly cut. On one hole, I said, "this resembles a fairway," but we were just throwing down the running trail. Again, there was too much ambition. Better to make one good set of tees than three in which none really is suited for a skillset.
The course also uses my two least favorite hole types: power corridors, and open fields where the fairways are created by mowing. What does this mean? That about a third of the holes are extremely easy, open holes with no obstacles while the wooded holes jump in difficulty by an absurd amount. The wooded holes are actually longer than the open holes by half again. Who would be able to play those wooded holes that would want to then come out and make short tosses in the open?

Other Thoughts:

For now, I wouldn't recommend coming her for a fun round. If you want to help beat in the course, by all means, but it is going to be work. In the future, the white tees should be blues, the reds should be whites, new reds should be added much closer to the pins and the current blues should be destroyed and forgotten. Or match the open blues with the wooded whites. That combination combined with some solid tree cutting and fairway creation/maintenance and there could be a solid blue-level course here. Currently, the course doesn't know what it wants to be and it probably strove to be too much but forgot to be something that people would want to play.
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