• Discover new ways to elevate your game with the updated DGCourseReview app!
    It's entirely free and enhanced with features shaped by user feedback to ensure your best experience on the course. (App Store or Google Play)

Hertford, NC

Camp Cale DGC

1.55(based on 1 reviews)
Filter course reviews

Filter reviews

Filter reviews

Camp Cale DGC reviews

Filter
13 0
DiscGolfCraig
Diamond level trusted reviewer
Premium Member
Experience: 19.9 years 599 played 544 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Cale! Cale, Cale, Cale! (to the tune of Starbucks' Roy Commercial)

Reviewed: Played on:Sep 24, 2023 Played the course:once

Pros:

When a course is at a camp, but it's not AT the camp, is it really a camp course? Of course! Or, not. Maybe the better question is when the camp is on the banks of a river, but you never see the river, should you feel short changed?
- This is a nice locale. Course plays in and alongside the woods. There isn't an open hole on the course. It just depends to what degree the trees come into play.
- This course isn't on the camp ground per se. The land is owned by the camp, but it appears to be a park built by the camp for public usage.
- Accuracy is the key here. Avoid trees and you'll be seeing lots of birdie putts. Miss your lines by a couple feet and you'll be having to get up and down from 75 feet to save par.
- The biggest variable on the course is the mound the basket is on for hole #5. Outside of that, #3's fairway is a dirt path. Otherwise, a lot of wooded tee shots in the 175 - 225-foot range.
- #8 & 9 were fun, wooded, tunnel-esque tee shots. HINT: In case you can't tell, some holes here were completely unmemorable.
- Very scenic. Very quiet. Very peaceful. It feels like you're in the middle of nowhere.
- New course, so in turn, new baskets and new tee pads.

Cons:

When you're standing on a tee and you only see a single basket in the direction of the tee pad, you naturally assume that's the hole you're throwing to. Well, thanks to a Tropical Storm that went through town a day earlier, there was standing water on every hole, so I was taking a long way around to get to the basket I threw to. In the process, I found the actual basket for hole #4. I'm still not sure where the fairway for this hole was supposed to be.
- Being a new course, and based on what I just wrote, there aren't tee signs. Most tee pads had a flag with a number on them. The good news is that other than the aforementioned #4, and somewhat hole #5, the other seven holes are easy to distinguish the fairways. And I say this while I was using the UDisc interactive map.
- The course is perfectly...ok. It's exactly what I expected, and I had seen zero reviews or feedback on the course prior to playing here.
- The distances on some holes are off. Blame it on the UDisc map and drawing a straight line from a tee pad to the basket and not accounting for doglegs or obstacles to go around.

Other Thoughts:

For being a park at a camp, this is a perfectly suitable course. For anyone driving out of their way, Cale probably is going to come up a little short.
- By the time I was finished with my round, I had already forgotten how hole #1 played. I almost was tempted to walk back to refresh my memory. There are a couple other holes that have that same simplistic feel to them.
- Having tee pads next to each other on holes #5 & 6 is interesting at first glance. The only basket that's visible is #6, which is also the basket I threw to when I teed off on #4. There's not much clearing for #5's fairway. So, when throwing into the woods, you do have to look to make sure you know where you're throwing. Once that's cleared up, it's actually a nice little tee shot.
- The course generally was in great shape. My issues were solely due to the tropical storm. I had to play extremely cautiously so I didn't throw in the standing water. Didn't feel like driving in the car for 5 hours with drenched shoes.
- I would have liked to see one long hole to take advantage of the layout. I did like the incorrect layout I played on #4 far better than the actual layout.
- If you're driving down 17 or are stopped in Elizabeth City, make an effort to play here. Otherwise, there's no reason to go out of your way to play here. Good for the local scene.
Was this review helpful? Yes No
Top