Brooklyn, MS

Ashe Lake DGC - 18

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3.035(based on 17 reviews)
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novice39532
Experience: 5 played 5 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Overgrown underbrush & fairways-horrible tee pads 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 13, 2017 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Nice potentially challenging yet fun layout.
Requires variety of skill and distance (flick, straight, hyzer shots and shot-shaping ability).
Good use of terrain, hills/elevation change, and incorporating the lake on a few holes.
Design is there to give opportunity on most every hole for scoring.

Cons:

Way overgrown underbrush is overtaking fairways-risk of losing disc in middle of fairways.
Very poor (if any) upkeep on course.
Natural tee pads have deteriorated to useless/unsafe.
Leave the fairway on a throw and write-off that disc, it's gone forever in the underbrush until the next controlled-burn.
Bear scat present-be cautious!
Snakes.
Bugs, mosquitoes, deer flies, ticks-dress accordingly/bathe in bug spray before arriving.
Pay-to-play.
Controlled burns (forestry service) for the underbrush do not happen often enough to keep the course in acceptable condition.
Grass in fairways was well above ankles (closer to knees) and weeds were waist high-picked up several ticks inside first few holes.

Other Thoughts:

It's a shame that this course has so much potential to be a great course but a lack of or non-existing maintenance has this course borderline unusable. I paid $5 and only played a few holes before giving up due to the unacceptably poor conditions of the course.

There has to be (needs to be) a number (with the forestry service?) to call for a condition report before considering playing here. Otherwise, I cannot recommend chancing the grass has been cut or a controlled burn has been done recently.

Played this course two years ago and was after a controlled burn. The "rough" was identifiable but not overwhelming, we could find a disc (from the fairway) with minimal effort. The fairways needed to be cut but was less than ankle deep length grass. It was enjoyable and challenging.

Consider this course at your own risk!
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