A short little course with a mix of fun ace runs and questionable wooded fairways.

-Amenities: Concrete tees, signs with maps for both tees, DISCatchers, course kiosk, next tee signs on baskets, paths between holes.

-Dual Pads: Two pads per hole offering the ultra-short and merely short variety. Works well to play the course twice in a row, once with shorts and once with longs.

-Ace Race/Distance Friendly: The course here isn't worth playing unless you're either (1) a newer player or (2) hunting for aces. For either of those two conditions, it's a good candidate. With only one hole on either layout stretching to 300', it shouldn't present distance challenges at all.

-Second Course: A major, major draw here will be the phenomenal wooded course on site. The two provide good counterbalances of difficulty.

-Shot Shaping/Gameplay: An ace race with a decent variety. There are a couple of straight tunnels, but also plenty of tightly wooded fairways that bend either direction with down- or up-slopes. The final holes stretch out the length as they go to the open, but are still all aceable with basic driving shapes. The course is notable in that, despite its short length, misses can be difficult to recover from due to thick vegetation. This is rather frustrating for the type of course, but ultimately quite fair. Aces are very achievable, but should also feel rewarding due to the wooded constraints of the holes.

-Rough: There are some places from which a short scramble will be totally impossible. It's annoying to miss your line by a few inches and end up with no approach to the basket at all.

-Squirrely Lines: I marked (2), (3), (5), and (6) as all suspect lines from the longer tees. That's almost half the course, and it definitely affected my round to feel like I had an unusually tiny gap to hit or fairway shape that precluded the ace run I wanted to attempt.

-Pace: I felt like I was finally settling into my groove about the 8th hole of the course. With no long drives, it's hard to get your body warmed up in time to play at your best.

-Pay to Play: Or, rather, pay to enter. I believe the fee was a measly $3.00. I've paid more for a load of laundry, and this is much more fun.

The short course here at Chester SP is a solid addition, but nothing special. It's easy to breeze through and go for buckets on every shot. It also provides a nice warmup or cooldown course for the longer one on site, which is a nice touch. Overall, it gets a solid Typical.

~Similar Courses: Fewell Park (Rock Hill, SC); a slightly shorter Patriot's Park (Evans, GA); Chamblee Church (Dunwoody, GA); longer parts of Bluebird Putting Course (Conifer, CO).