Carroll County DGC is a 9 hole park style course literally right off of I-77 . The course starts close to the caretaker's house about 300 yards down the long driveway . I parked my car closer to the entrance in a beat up cement lot close to where you finish this disaster .There is a mailbox close to hole #1 with scorecards in it . The first tee is cement , then the rest of the tee pads are natural . There is no real signage here . The tee pads are marked with 2 bricks , one saying Hole , the other having the hole number . The baskets are the flimsy orange style , single chained that don't hold a putt well . The course is wide open . There is a tee flanking the right of the basket on hole #1 , and a metal barn straight in front of you on #7 , but other than that no obstructions to speak of .The grounds looked like it hadn't been mowed in a while , the grass well over my ankles . If you like wind , this course looks like the wind will be a factor most days .#6 might be the least of the worst of this course , being a drive over a creek into a large green . You have to cross the creek by walking way past the green and coming back . This is the only course within about 20 miles of anywhere else . Disc Risk is minimal . You can fish anything thrown in the creek out , and other than some foliage to the left of hole 6 , and throwing it up on the maintenance barn roof, you shouldn't have to look for your disc . I am trying to come up with positive things to say about this course , but I am at a loss .

Pick A Con , Any Con ,,,,,
#1 Navigation : hole 1 is clearly one of the only 2 holes on this course worth playing . It has a cement tee , throws up on a plateau with a set of the only trees on the whole course close to the basket . There is a place where I stood to get my bearings after parking , where I could see all 9 baskets in this course . After #1 , you have to play Where's Waldo and look for the bricks , especially if they are hidden in high grass . The course kind of runs clockwise around the front yard of the park , moving close to the front , then making a right turn and sliding to the left of the creek , which really only comes into play on one hole ( 6 ) . I couldn't find the bricks for 8 , and #9 pointed me to nowhere , so I safaried the last 2 holes .
#2 Safety . The safety isn't horrible here , but worth mentioning . There is a walking path that winds back around some of the back holes . Also there is a blind shot that wraps around a utility barn that I could see a maintenance worker of kid get hit on the other side . Please be considerate .
#3 Equipment . These bricks to mark the tee are worse than toe boards , which I also don't like . At least if you are going to have natural tees , make them dirt so people will know where to throw from and in which direction . The baskets are flimsy and cheap . No next tee signs to get you to the next bricks .
#4 There was a big construction rut somewhere near where you tee off on #8 . It looks like an abandoned project ( much like this course ) . The course wasn't very clean when I was there . There was no map , no kiosk , no garbage can ( take out what trash you take in , but don't accidentally throw away the baskets ) .

I really am all for the promotion of disc golf . Carroll County can fill the void by having the only course in the whole county , but it falls way short . I don't want a course to dissuade those newbies and make them think that this course is the norm and not the exception . I guess you can safari the course , but most of it is so wide open that it leaves little to the imagination . It looks like the park has more land on the sides and in the back ( even some woods ) , but I guess that they can keep an eye on the course and keep it a little more safe by having it in the front yard of the park . The park rolls some , but not a lot of elevation here . The course lacks anything to make it look appealing to the eye .
My Recommendation . Nobody more than a newbie or local living right down the road is going to touch this course . That being said , it is a leg stretcher for someone travelling from/to North Carolina to stop and throw a few holes , or course bag and easy one . Other than that , if driving north , wait til you get up to Randolph Park or Princeton City Park ,or driving south , Maybe the Vineyards .

Carroll County's course is relatively accessible off the main highway and provides a quick play through for a nice chance to stretch your legs and chuck some discs. The grass seems to be well-mowed and rough is otherwise minimized.

The course plays across a more or less entirely open field, with little to differentiate most holes from sheer unbridled chucking. A storage shed comes into play at one point. The baskets are a single layer of chains and not particularly good.

The tees are yellow bricks laid into the ground and can be very hard to find, with little else in the way of lines or obstacles helping you discern where a hole should start.

The modest elevation present hardly comes into play if at all.

This course teeters on the edge of being such, and is scarcely more than baskets in a field. The land can hardly accommodate a real course without even modest obstacles, and the design does little to fight this fact. It would be hard to even safari here in a meaningful way, and the baskets make for poor putting practice. Worth bagging or as a chance to stretch your legs, but not much else.