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White House, TN

White House Park

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bjreagh
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Experience: 27.7 years 350 played 321 reviews
2.50 star(s)

2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 1, 2016 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Finally a course in this area of the mid-state. 18 hole course of tightly wooded technical (holes 1 and 18 are open). It is a course that will challenge your ability to hit tight lines of all shapes- straight and varying degrees of left and right. Many holes have a bit of elevation.

The strength here is the overall design of the holes and the shots required to score well is a good challenge, though not impossible..

Pretty much on land only for disc golf with no other activities to interfere. The course is in an area in the back of the park that plays in the woods the walking trail runs through. The trail (and users of it) for the most part should not come into play on any shots- the trail is often used for getting from one hole to the next.

Nice practice basket and ample parking. Prodigy baskets are new and in good shape.

Navigation was tricky in some spots, but at least there were a few signs between holes to help, or I never would have found them all. So it is possible with a little patience and searching.

Cons:

Unfortunately, right now there are lots. I waited for a few months before playing and reviewing knowing that new courses take time, but this course, though playable, leaves much to be desired in its current state:

Carpet (or dirt) tees, and not nice carpet, just various scraps.

Baskets, though nice and new, are lime green- very difficult to see on a thick woods course. I had to walk every fairway almost in its entirety to see it. (As much as I despise the band on Discatchers, the yellow band is the easiest to spot of all baskets.)

Also, the numbers on the basket are annoyingly useless as they do not face the tee/fairway, so if you have doubt as to hole# or basket, you can't tell until you get to the basket. Got me the most on #18, because I thought it was #1 (the only hole you see it from the parking lot clearly, and no tee sign, so I played the hole only to see it was 18, and looked for 10 minutes to find #1).

A couple other holes were more difficult to find, sometimes going down the paved walking trail to the next tee made it more difficult to know when to leave the path to get to the tee. I passed holes a couple of times, finding the next one, then backtracking. (around holes 12-15).

Tee signs on most holes, consist of only a hand drawn number, with no distance or any indication of hole shape, and several of the signs were just laying on the ground.

With 16 straight holes in the woods (and I like technical woods) it does become a bit repetitive. It felt like most all the fairways are the same width. 1, 18 are open, 7 and 11 are memorable and different than the rest, but the other 14 are very similar.

I played in early summer and the holes were just about overgrown with the exception of a narrow path of a fairway on every hole. The result is trying to land every single shot on a narrow strip through the woods, or searching for your disc in thick undergrowth on EVERY single shot. (Tip- wear pants to avoid nettles, poison ivy, probably ticks, etc.)

*Many of these cons can be improved upon, so I will be sure to check back and update as needed.

Other Thoughts:

Basically, I spent way more time trying-to-play this course than I did actually playing the course. The theme for the round was "always searching"- looking for most of the tees, looking for most of the baskets, looking for my disc on almost every shot, looking looking looking... It got to be more frustrating, unfun, and more of a chore than a leisure activity.

I hope some improvements will be made, and quickly. I would play here again (mainly because there is finally a course close to my in-laws), but probably only in the fall, winter, or early spring before green stuff starts to grow. I know Will S. designed it and that may interest some people (and the design itself is fine, though nothing special). Would help with the addition of decent tees, signs, and primarily maintenance. If driving I-65 there are better courses within a short drive: Cedar Hill (north Nashville) and Franklin-Simpson (in Franklin, KY).
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