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Gresham, SC

Brittons Neck Community Park

1.075(based on 7 reviews)
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MrFrosty
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Experience: 31.1 years 764 played 387 reviews
0.50 star(s)

Brittons Wreck Community Park 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Oct 7, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

The course sits in a very small park on SC 908 . Go slow on this stretch or you will miss it . There is a small parking lot with a Port O Let next to it . There are 6 Chainstar baskets in pretty good shape . The park is mowed and bushes and trees trimmed . The Pros part is now over .

Cons:

I put the address in my GPS and it shot back " Why ?! " . It kept trying to send me to the gas station 3 miles down the road . Look for the tennis courts to mark the park . The park sign has been whitewashed , so even the sign was ashamed to be part of the park . The park will baffle you . The small grassy area looks nice , maybe just less than 2 acres . The first tee is on the opposite side of a small playground ( looks okay ) and a couple of tennis courts . Unless the USTF adds weeds to its list of surfaces , I don't think this court will ever get any play . Anyway , The disc golf course has no tees or signs that I saw , so you will have to play basket to basket . At least the baskets are numbered . #1 plays from a sidewalk near the road to the basket , with the fenceline from Weedfest Wimbledon on your right and of the park on your left . The #2 basket runs on the same line as #1 , but the going from basket to basket , you will have a large bush right in front of you and a row of trees that the basket in placed in between . You will have to bend a hard and high right to left shot to try to get it close to the basket . baskets 3-5 looked at this dismal disc golf course and slipped out at night ,donned disguises , and supposedly became traveling carneys . #6 is toward the kids playground and #7 is an isolated basket near some large bushes . #8 is toward the parking lot and #9 is back toward where the #6 basket is . The course is as flat as the parking lot and the course is in the wide open , which means that the wind blows , just like the course .

Other Thoughts:

The course is a fast play , so if you came to specifically play this course , you didn't do your homework . I wouldn't play this course even if I had enough open space on the tennis court to pitch a tent and live there . This isn't really even a course . It is just a practice area for the kids living within a short walk or bicycle ride . I wonder if there was ever tee signs or tee pads at Brittons Neck . A shame , because it really is the only game in Gresham .
My Recommendation - Flat and fast , this place is a quick bag for the Course Collector and good for very little else . Take a pass on this course and Drive down to Socastee Rec Park 50 minutes away .
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DiscGolfCraig
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The guillotine has dropped on this neck. 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 17, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

Brittons Neck is in the middle of nowhere. You drive past farmlands and fields, questioning your GPS, and suddenly come upon the park and building. Maybe you should blink and miss it instead.
- At one point, this seems like it was a decent nine-hole layout. Based on the course pictures from nine years earlier, the course didn't receive much upkeep even then, one year after the course was opened. In 2020, the neglect is even more noticeable.
- Here the most shocking part of my round. I was at the course at 7:15 on a Saturday morning. I left Charlotte just after 4:30 for a marathon 9-course day trip, starting my day here. 5 minutes after I get here, another car pulled into the parking lot. She was here to walk the track, not play disc golf. Still, by 7:20, the park met its daily visitor count.
- When I played, only six baskets were still upright. I found a seventh laying on its side under a pile of branches. Don't know about the other baskets.
- There was no indication of tee markers anywhere, so I just teed off near the prior hole's basket. As for #1, I just picked somewhere based on other people's comments.
- Hmmm. Let's see. Other positives. Ok, here's one. This could be a nice practice area. It's a good 400 feet plus from one side of the field to the other, so you can unleash some throws.
- Playing #6 - 9 as I did they're perfectly decent short holes. No obstacles or challenges. Just decent. #2 was the best hole as there was an actual semi-obstacle (tree) that you had to avoid for your easy 2.

Cons:

Just about everything. Just like any meal, you may have all the ingredients but if you don't have the correct proportions, you've got slop for the animals. Unless you like twice as much flour, half as many eggs, 3x the salt, and a spitballed amount of vegetable oil.
- There are six baskets remaining. They are disproportionately placed throughout the field. You have two within 30 feet or so each other while also having a vast expanse of nothingness. Chalk that up to a loss of baskets.
- Lack of signage. Nobody would be drawn to the first basket as the starting point of this course because of its obscure location. Baskets #6 - 9 are much more visible than one hidden on the far side of the tennis court. Alas, the hidden basket is indeed hole #1. There are no tee markers. No signs. No course map. Nothing. Remove the baskets today and tomorrow nobody would have a clue a disc golf course ever existed here.
- No tee pads either. The pictures from 2011 showed (poorly framed) tee areas. Alas, no sign of those in 2020. You notice a pattern yet.
- Based on the old pictures, it's interesting that the two holes with the most personality (basket on a manmade hill and basket in the ground) are gone. Gimmicky yes, but at least it would give this course something.
- You're sort of close to main roads (15 minutes away), but you're also in the middle of nowhere. If you were inclined to be here awhile, come prepared as there are no amenities. Unless you're here for a work day, nobody should ever spend more than 45 minutes here.

Other Thoughts:

You don't have to worry about Coronavirus at Brittons Neck. The course has been overlooked by everyone else, so why would COVID be any different?
- I have a single positive memory of this course. The sunrise. One of the best disc golf pictures I've ever taken was of the course at sunrise, with the water tower as the backdrop. Check it out on Instagram @discgolfcraig.
- With a lack of tees or a full layout, it's hard to take the course seriously. Making my own tee areas, it was hard to put forth a serious effort knowing I probably wasn't close to the actual tee areas. Essentially it was a glorified practice visit to the course.
- #7, with its backdrop of trees and shrubbery, presents a decent setup. It's better than playing next to a rundown tennis court.
- The most recent review was nine years ago. The last round recorded on DGCR was eight years ago. That may be the last time anyone paid attention to the course.
- I wish I had more to add, but this is an incomplete mess. Parks department needs to decided if it will put in additional resources, or call it quits with this course. Why a course was built in the middle of farmlands and fields seems a peculiar choice.
- A baggers course and nothing more. It can become decent with some attention, but it may not be worth it based on the seemingly lack of interest the course receives.
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