Arrowhead Park reviews
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To the point on Arrowhead 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Dec 5, 2012
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
Nice park, they dumped something like 2 million dollars into the renovation of it. The course is really short and really technical. Not a lot of tall trees but tall enough pines and what not to feel wooded. Not a lot of vegetation to lose a disc in for the most part, just pine needles and sand really.
The tees are those plastic hexagonal grid things they have at the Kure Beach park. They do the job for the most part.
Trash cans at literally every hole. If trash can availability was an indicator of how good a course was, this would be the host of the USDGC.
The course flows okay, a few hiccups at the beginning but the course is short so you don't spend a lot of time walking if you accidentally go to the wrong hole.
The tees are those plastic hexagonal grid things they have at the Kure Beach park. They do the job for the most part.
Trash cans at literally every hole. If trash can availability was an indicator of how good a course was, this would be the host of the USDGC.
The course flows okay, a few hiccups at the beginning but the course is short so you don't spend a lot of time walking if you accidentally go to the wrong hole.
Cons:
I don't really get whom this course is designed for. If you're a novice, you're gonna be whipped by the very tight, technical lines but fortunately the holes are short. If you have much DG ability whatsoever, it feels like putt-putt where every hole is a windmill hole, or more like shooting hoops at the fair on one of those carnival rims where only a perfect shot goes in.
Some of the holes appear to have been shortened (read: made worse) for some reason. There is some room to have a decent length hole here and there to break up the 100-200' monotony but they went the opposite way. Puzzling.
The fairways are designed pretty well, challenging but fair, but more than a few have borderline impossible lines thanks to the shortness, like a short 'L' that bends less than 100' away. If you don't have a bag of OH and skips and rollers and similar tricks, you'll be exasperated.
Some of the tees need to be reinforced because they are falling apart already, making them lumpy and tripping hazards.
Some of the holes appear to have been shortened (read: made worse) for some reason. There is some room to have a decent length hole here and there to break up the 100-200' monotony but they went the opposite way. Puzzling.
The fairways are designed pretty well, challenging but fair, but more than a few have borderline impossible lines thanks to the shortness, like a short 'L' that bends less than 100' away. If you don't have a bag of OH and skips and rollers and similar tricks, you'll be exasperated.
Some of the tees need to be reinforced because they are falling apart already, making them lumpy and tripping hazards.
Other Thoughts:
It's a time killer and a fun course if you like some gimmicky challenge. If you like to air out discs and really rip long drives though, you'll hate this course. This is a fine-tune your midrange and approach game kind of course. It's really not that bad, and could be a lot better, but as it is now, it just kind of puzzles me how you can go through so much trouble to put in a course and just end up with this?
