The little 9 hole course at life point is a fun, quick play and though it's on a somewhat tight piece of property it's not too bad.

Holes one, four and five have some road OB to contend with and there are just enough trees and well positioned baskets to make it worth the play.

The signs are accurate and make navigation pretty easy. Two players breezed through in 30mins.

Baskets are really nice and caught well, heavy chains and they didn't have any unfair spit outs. They look quite new.

Not very long and a touch monotonous, you can play it with mids and putters maybe a fairway driver if you are so inclined.

Design isn't prefect with a few holes being somewhat uninspired in design. You basically either flick or turnover a mid on 7 of the holes.

Slight grade with a drainage ditch in the middle to add just a bit of interest and today a bit of water.

Pads were carpet but it's mainly gone at this point. I would relabel the tees to natural.

Not a bad 9 hole course and for the land they have I don't know that you could do enough to add more than a half point. Even with great pads it wouldn't be amazing.

Still a fun play though and worth the stop if you are passing by as I was.

Don't know if I would play it all the time if I was a local, but it's a decent change of pace.

Fairly reasonable for a church course with limited space.

-Amenities: Most holes have good tee signs. Some have the tee area marked with carpet. Good baskets with sharp-looking custom-designed bands.

-Foliage: Lifepoint is mostly a very open field, but there are trees peppered in on every hole. These trees don't make a giant shaping challenge, but do mark a decided improvement over no obstacles in terms of both gameplay and appearance.

-Elevation: Very mild, but like with foliage, the situation is better than flatness.

-Navigation: Once you figure out where to start, navigation is easy. Transition (2)-(3) requires a bit of a backtrack, but isn't bad.

-Gameplay: Decent. Lots of basically straight shots in the upper 200s where you need to pick one side of a tree to go around. The challenge holes are (3), which throws to an "island" surrounded by parking lot, and (4), which winds through trees with an OB road on the right.

Nothing special going for Lifepoint, and I'm not sure about its future.

-Lack of Variety: Other than (3)-(4), you're throwing very similar shots off every tee. Neither does the scenery change.

-Tees: The carpet pads are definitely returning to nature. Be ready to improvise your own.

-Safety: The interesting holes (3)-(4) are also significant safety hazards. On (3), multiple vehicles in the parking lot made me throw with extreme caution. On (4), the moderately busy road is quite tight to the fairway. A ricochet off a tree could fly into the road in front of a car that just appeared from the far end of the hole.

-Overlapping Fairways: Technically the fairways don't overlap, but they come very close. I drove poorly into the wind on (9) and found myself in the middle of (7). Similarly, (2) could easily bleed into (6) or vice-versa.

-Construction: Normally I wouldn't list this as a con, but it appears that the nature of the property has permanently changed due to building expansion efforts around the area of holes (1), (8), and (9). On my appearance, tees and signs (1) and (9) were gone, and basket (8) was missing. Comparing the situation to the 2018 course map, I don't think hole (8) will ever be put back in, as the building has been slightly expanded and a new parking lot behind the building juts right into the fairway. Hole (9) would need a new teepad, which would make it pretty short. Hole (1) will also necessitate significant parking lot risk, though that's not an issue if you play at the right time. I'm generally unsure what the future of the course is, but I have trouble seeing it as a full 9-hole course again on this property.

Lifepoint is "Passable", because you do get to throw reasonable holes almost 300 feet that include scant elevation and trees. Given the lack of interest, its monotony, and the doubtful future of the last 2 holes, I have trouble giving it better. It's worth practicing here for residents of Guntersville, Albertville, etc., but not much utility beyond that.

(1.529 Rating) (REVISED - replayed September 2019) The first course in a town of 20,000 residents.
- NAVIGATION - Fairly straight forward. The entire layout is mostly wide open with a few trees per hole. This makes jumping from hole to hole just a matter of spotting the closest tee sign. These transitions are normally around 50 feet. Hole signage is accurate. They show obstacles, distance and par. No course map on site but there's one online. I'll also mention that the course is good for those that like to bring out the disc golf cart.
- MAINTENANCE - The grounds appear to be mowed weekly. Despite no garbage cans along the layout, the course has been very clean on all three of my visits,. Overgrowth is limited to off fairway areas on (1), (6), (7) and (8), and there's ample bail out room on all of these holes.
- FORGIVENESS - The odds of losing a disc due to an errant shot is almost impossible, and its likely limited to getting one stuck high in a tree.
- RECREATIONAL FRIENDLY - It's good that this course is geared to Recreational players. There's sort of still enough challenge here to entertain local Intermediate players and it's also still kind enough for Beginners.
- QUICK PLAY - Solo players should complete a in 25 minutes. I've done a three sum here in under 45 minutes.
- LOCATION - No doubt this course has aided in introducing the sport to new community residents. Also, only 15 minutes from the new Kudzu Cove course, so an easy way for a bagger to pick up two courses if in the area.

To small of footprint and simple to attract players more than a half hour away.
- UNIQUENESS - Nothing at Lifepoint is going to blow the mind of any player that's played 4 to 5 other courses. Mostly lightly wooded to open shots. Baskets are guarded in several ways using trees in different configurations, but most courses do that. All par 3s with the longest hole just over 350 feet. No water features other than a gulley and little elevation, see below.
- ELEVATION - Located on Sand Mountain but there's nothing of significance at this course. The course has a swale that runs through some of the layout, but this element isn't fully embraced except on hole (2) where the basket is towards the leading edge of the swale. This affords the throw from tee to be about 10 to 15 feet down. This example is the most notable elevation at Lifepoint.
- CHARACTER - Other than nice baskets and signage, most of the other amenities like those seen on the established courses are missing. No alternate baskets locations or practice basket. The tees are a mix of natural and carpet, but so far not pitting. The tees also have minimal defined throwing lines using two loose field stones. There apparently is a second unmarked alt nine using different teeing areas. As for seating, none yet.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - I didn't score Lifepoint very high. Way too open and lacking water and elevation. There are a few beautiful large trees here, but that feat is achieved by almost every course in this part of the country.
- SPACING - The whole course feels a little squeezed. Although there are no fairway overlaps, the undefined edges of the fairways appear to be shared on a few holes. Several tees are right on the fringe of being too close to the other baskets. (8) tee is probably the only major offender at around 35 feet from basket (7), but I think tee (4) is in play of an errant shot on (3) as well. Discs will no doubt find their ways onto other fairways so players need to be attentive.
- LACK OF CHALLENGE - Advanced players should be able to throw 9 down eventually if they throw enough rounds here. There are a few mild shot shaping lines. Baskets appear to be guarded about as well as they can giving the surrounding elements but it's still light guarding. Recreation players will probably average around 1, maybe 2 down.

I'm not entirely sure how sand mountain got its name but its flattest mountain I've ever seen. It is sandy in spots however. As for the course, it's alright. I'd play it regularity if I lived in town. From looking on Facebook it seems like they have a good crew of players. I've played once at their Monday night league and had a great time. Although Lifepoint bears a lot of the same characteristics as nearby Agape DGC in Scottsboro, It's a slightly better course overall. No need to travel more than 30 minutes out of your way to see this course.