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Elkin, NC

CB Eller Elementary School

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Experience: 7.4 years 8 played 2 reviews
2.50 star(s)

School Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 25, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

- This course is made for beginners. 6 holes played in a loop. This course is excellent to practice midrange/putting game. All holes are PAR 3.

- Hole 1 is a nice hole where you tee off from the corner of the parking lot. The basket is a reasonable distance given the layout of the course.

-Hole 2 is the easiest hole on the course. This hole is a straight shot and could easily be birdied.

-Hole 3 is the longest hole on the course. The view to the basket is slightly obstructed coming off the drive.

Hole 4- This hole is super short. Not much to say about it. Easily can be birdied.

Hole 5- This hole stands out on this course. There is a tree on one side and a fence to the field on the other side. It's just a nice looking hole dispite the distance.

Hole 6- This hole is placed on a slight hill. A nice hyzer shot with a midrange should allow for the Birdie.

Cons:

The signs are missing for the holes; they aren't really necessary considering the size of this course. I only saw Tee pads for hole 2 and hole 3. Hole 2 had a wooden tee. Hole 3 was concrete. I teed off from behind the basket I just played for the rest of the holes.

Other Thoughts:

If you need a confidence or just dying to check out a new course, this should do the trick. Other than that, this course isn't anything to drive out of the way for. It's a shame some of the nearby woods couldn't be used to streach this course to 9 holes
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DiscGolfCraig
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Experience: 20 years 602 played 545 reviews
1.00 star(s)

Leave this course to the kids. The adults can enjoy the wineries! 2+ years

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Jun 11, 2017 Played the course:once

Pros:

CB Eller is a basic, kid-friendly six-hole layout. If you're looking for an ace, keep playing the loop until you bang the chains.
- This course isn't meant to be aimed at anyone above a beginner skill level and/or kids. Being at an elementary school, it does offer children a nice introduction to the game.
- The six holes play in a loop around the baseball field and rec area. All six baskets are visible so navigation is a breeze.
- Five of the six holes range from 175 - 230 feet. The other - #3 - is a whopping 280 feet. I played the entire course with one mid-range disc. Leave your bag in the car. It will only slow you down.
- The course is in Elkin. Elkin is home to many wineries. Wine is good!
- It'd be nice if there were a spot to donate discs to further encourage kids to play the game.

Cons:

Being fair to this course, I'm not going to nitpick. I'll just point out a couple of things:
- I couldn't find all the tee pads. Not that I wanted to spend any extra time looking for markers. Instead, I threw from the previous hole's basket. It seemed to work out nicely.
- Course is cramped into a small space. The area is too small to serve as a practice area unless you're only working on mid-range or shorter shots. It'd be hard to find anywhere here where one could unleash a driver.
- The bigger concern is the safety risk for kids playing when other kids are around. You wouldn't want kids accidentally hitting other students with a disc and a situation arising that would cause the baskets to be pulled.

Other Thoughts:

CB Eller has six baskets. The holes are short. Add it up, and you're in for a quick round. I finished in right about 10 minutes.
- Summary of each hole? Throw a mid-range on an open layout, park it close to the basket and have a birdie putt.
- Even for the kiddos, they're going to be making some good throws. The hope is this course is an ego-boost that they want to play some more. In that case, this course is a success.
- Course isn't convenient to anything. It's 15 minutes off the interstate, so you've really got to be in course-bagging mode to drive out here.
- As is the norm, my ratings are done in comparison to every course, not in a vacuum. As a pitch-n-putt six-hole layout, this course gets a low rating. If this course leads to new players joining the sport, any rating on DGCR is totally irrelevant.
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nevets4433
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 12.3 years 62 played 60 reviews
1.50 star(s)

Solid Elementary School Course 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Oct 4, 2015 Played the course:once

Pros:

It is always good to see disc sports incorporated into local schools, and here at CB Eller, disc golf is on the menu. The course here plays in and around the fields to the side of the school which also inlude a baseball diamond, playground, and a running track with fit stations.

The course itself is a 6 hole loop at the moment, and course design made good use of all the available terrain. In a good piece of design, the final hole fininshes right beside the first tee so multiple loops could be done with ease.

The tees, with exception of #1 are concrete. Hole one starts on the asphalt corner of the parking lot by the kiosk. Kiosk shows hole layout and clearly states OB. Seeing as this is a school course, there were good decisions made to make the road and the parking lot OB to keep play away from traffic.

The course itself is pretty easy, and most holes are short - requiring only a putter or midrange off of the tee. There are just enough obstacles in the way to keep players interested, but it is clear that the target audience for this course is beginners.

Cons:

First con is the obvious - it is only 6 holes. That makes it difficult to really get interested in the course.

Even though there is a nice kiosk, the hole signs that used to mark the teepads have all been destroyed. Navigation isn't really all that difficult but hole signs would be nice.

The teepads also are a bit lacking. They are very very short, so using them for a run-up isn't all that easy. 5's short teepad backs up to a fence so a run-up is actually impossible on that hole.

Hole 1's tee is on the asphalt from the parking lot. I am not sure that is the safest option given this is an elementary school

Hole length variety is very minimal.

It felt odd using the fit station signs beside the track as obstacles on #3, they seemed like things that the school wouldn't realy want discs regularly banging off.

With the other amenities in the park, I can see where interference could be a major problem. The course would be nearly unplayable if there were runners or a baseball game.

The QuikShot baskets had very weak chains and I found them quick to spit-out a disc.

Other Thoughts:

I appreciate the course being available for public use. This is, for an on-school course, a very successsful venture. The available land was used as well as possible, and the safety concerns, though present, seem to be well managed by the smart design.

I find it very difficult to rate this course. It is only 6 holes, and it clearly is designed to introduce people to the sport, If there were a few more holes there to at least make it a 9 holer, the rating might go up. But given the sparse land available, it may have been a smart idea to only use 6 baskets here.
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LeeLK
Experience: 16 years 68 played 53 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Short, straight, quick course. 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Apr 13, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

Short, so you can practice your mid-range/putter shots and try to ace/duece. Pads are nice. Very easy to navigate and can play through quickly.

Cons:

Pins are single chain with pretty shallow baskets. Not a ton of variety, mostly short, straight shots (#5 being the exception).

Other Thoughts:

If you're in the area and want to warm up the arm or try to ace and only want to spend about 15 minutes, give this course a shot. Supposedly they're putting in 12 more holes at some point, so that could make it a bit more worthwhile.
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