This course is located in a beautiful park! A great example of a city park with a list of nice amenities. Ball fields, tennis courts, walking trails, playgrounds etc. All well maintained and clean every time I've been.

The course itself seems well maintained as well.

-The tee signs are nice, new looking, and mostly accurate. With the exception of one hole in particular on the back nine. Which some local has taken the courtesy of marking with a sharpie...

-There was a bench, or makeshift bench at just about every hole.

-A nice mix of par 3,4 and 5 holes throughout the course. A good change of pace from the normal par 3 courses.

-After the first 4-5 holes, you're mostly in the woods which results in a beautiful, quiet walk through the woods.

-Design and layout of some of the holes.... Nice tee pad, nice basket, but no discernable fairway. It seemed like there was great intent to make a nice course, but no work put into clearing fairways. Very frustrating at times just trying to figure out where to even try and form a line. The only guidance being the tee signs. Several times I found myself walking down the "fairway" just to find the basket, then trying to determine the best way to make it there. Frustrating

-Not much variety. The first 4-5 holes are "easy" wide open holes, where the remaining holes are a trip through the woods.

Unfortunately, the tough to non-existent fairways are a giant turn off. This course has all the right things it needs to be a great round of golf if there were just a few improvements. Take out a few trees, and my rating would instantly go up.

The well maintained amenities of the course are it's saving grace and the reason I still gave it a 3 rating.

If you're local to Mooresville, or in the area possibly playing Stumpy, it's worth a stop to play a round!
Otherwise, until improvements to the design are made, there are more rewarding and fun courses to play in the Charlotte area

Great quiet park and a beautiful woods. The natural features here would make for a really amazing course. Great big trees, relatively thin underbrush. The course starts out pretty easy through the first 4 holes. If played in a loop, these would be great beginner holes and should be marketed this way. Holes 5-18 weave through a mature forest up and down hills. There doesnt appear to be a lefty or righty bias. The fairways are fair for the most part. A few holes just dont work or fit but you can score birdies. There are some risk reward shots and that is always a plus in my book. Teepads are large and ok on the grip meter. There are some interesting tee placements that force you to throw over hills before continuing down the fairway. I think this is an underused feature and this reviewer appreciates it here. Signage is nice. The local club is dedicated to improving the course and has regular events and is starting to do regular work days there. The attention shows. The course is trashfree. There appears to be an appropriate number of bridges, although some more could be used. If you are in the area I would absolutly recommend you playing here and I challenge you to see what the course can be with some small improvements and write a fair review.

I figured I would lump the cons and thoughts together. The Bridges has a bad reputation. It is better'ish than the rating. I think the reviews are a reflection of the lack of design consistency and style, attention to detail, the dangerous aspects of the course, and because it is so close to Charlotte. I think most people that play in Charlotte or visit the area expect a better design from such a great piece of land.
The Bridges just leaves an odd feel after many of the holes. There are 1 or 2 things that get you scratching your head on almost every hole that make you wonder who designed the course. 1-4 are so basic, that they dont seem to fit. Then you go through 14 holes where almost every one has something that was so easily avoidable; that it is confusing to review. These are simple fixes that would absolutly leave players with a sense of satisfaction.
-baskets that are way too close to ravines: there are just too many of these and they will only erode away and make for even more dangerous or unrealistic greens. Not every basket has to be on a drop off. If it is, build some retaining walls around it to stop the dirt from eroding away.
-baskets that are in the run off ditches for the park. They will erode out and wash away.
-one of the prettiest, best fairways (#9) is 320' but the basket is like 2.5' past a giant tree...there was plenty of room to make a great looking green. The tree hide was careless,extra punative, and unnecessary. Just move that basket 15' farther. See #9 basket picture in the Media section and look at that beautiful green...50% of that basket is useless and cannot be putted at.
-2 of the tees end directly into a hill...these will continuosly erode down on to the tee box
-a number of the tees are pointed 15-20 degrees in the wrong direction of the fairway.
-Hole 7 should just be completely changed it is dangerous and not appropriate.
-odd fairway lengths. = too many trees and short high par holes or too long/short par 3's
-odd fairway finishing turns with unfair blocking trees. Discs simply do not fly like a number of these fairway ends are designed.
-forced and long parallel or shared fairways with the ravine. Throwing up to and over the ravine or quickly over is sufficient. The designer took care to use the ravine, but obvously from the reviews it was not done in a good way.
Finally, personally I just find that this course seems to be plopped onto some land. For example. Hole 15 is a 460' par 5, then there is a 361' par 3 to a 10' green on the side of a hill into a ravine. (See #16 Basket picture! What happens when this hill erodes!?) It is impossible and not necessary...then you go to a 200' straight no risk down hill shot to a wonky zig zag #18. I'll always mark down a course that has the feel of...I'm tired of designing ill just put in a random 200' hole.
This course appears to be the typical "design in a box." a design is purchased and followed but the details (retaining walls,steps,erosion) go unnoticed or left for a volunteer force that does not get paid for the additional work created by design that is not forward looking.
Small changes of basket locations by 15-30' on 8 -10 holes would bring this course up to a 3.5 or 4. While I personally see better ways to utilize the land, there is a 4.5 level course here. its just covered up with poor basket locations and dangerous fairways.

Interesting & challenging terrain, clean new park, scenic woods/creek, big cement tee pads, very nice new disc catchers

Tight fairways, heavily wooded, still some clean-up needed, poison ivy, shortage of river crossings, hard to find tee for 13 and basket for 18, buggy

Fairways could use some thinning, but overall we enjoyed the challenge, and scenic meandering creek w/pretty ferns. Could use map & scorecards. Needs better signs for mandos.

Really nice tee pads. Big. Nice baskets.
Good signs.
Variety of shorter and longer holes.
No? water hazards where you'll need a floater...
Beautiful day today, beautiful foliage in the woods, wildflowers, azaleas, violets.

4/27
See Other thoughts also. Gulches are very steep and deep. You need to be able to throw FH and BH whether L or R. After the leaves really come out, someone's going to need to do some trimming or a few holes especially 18 won't be much playable.
Other esteemed local courses do give you more fairway with the 300-400 foot distances, woods, and curves.
4/20
A bit rough still, fairways not always defined.
All in the woods after the first four holes vs. Bradford or Nevin or Hornets Nest or Stumpy where you get some breaks in and out of woods. Hole 5 will be a shock to players not used to woods after the first 4.
Crazy steep and deep ravines/ gulches. I agree with the other posters some rope or steps or something will be needed.
Erosion shaped the original terrain here and it's going to need careful managing as increased foot traffic wears on the course and people go scrambling up and down off the path, retrieving discs.
18 seems unfinished, sign doesn't account for three bridges, not two. Really no fairway, you end up shooting against players on 7? coming the other way.

4/27--I still like this course but some additional comments
Played here again today.
First 6 holes comparable to other local wooded courses mentioned in this review, with clear fairways.
1. Starting on 7 where the creek is on your left, If you are RHBH only, and you don't have a disc that will break l-r you are in trouble. You will have the creek on your left several more times. Bracketts has one hole where the deep gulch the creek/river is in can swallow you, but no other of the courses mentioned has gulches like Cornelius Rd.
2. 11 really does have no clear fairways and there is a huge gulch in the middle. I was lucky the first time through. Else, this should be not a par 3 but a 4. At least cut a fairway across the s shaped gulch.
3. 16 also--either give throwers a chance to hang the dogleg left with fairway or add a stroke for par from 3 to 4. Like 11, if you don't have the legs to get in and out of gulch, you have trouble, because you will end up deep in. It's already being eroded by so many people clambering in and out to get their discs.
4. On 18 the foliage hanging down from a big tree (silver birch?) pretty close on right all but obscuring the drive even to the mando. After that, no clear fairway and again a gulch, not a hillside. Nevin, Stumpy, Honets Nest all have hills, but not gulches like Cornelius Road. Placed a long shot on the edge on 18 today and very difficult to retrieve my disc safely without hanging on to flora that are going to get torn up..

4/20
For context, Played here for the first time today. 22 months player.
RHFH driver. 220' my typical longest drive. I normally play Bradford and Stumpy for longer courses, sometimes Hornets Nest or Nevin. Bailey Road when I'm in a hurry.
Have played Bracketts 3 times. I'm a -2 to -5 player on Bailey, +5-10 short tees at Bradford. I was 7 over here today. They signs are pretty good but you have to pay attention *one tee ahead* to remember where to go next, there aren't pointers at the basket.
Not a fan of 18, too low, too tight, weird uphill with no line and like others have noted, across a path.
Some holes seem too close to others.
I played Grand Central Station near Clemson last fall, and it was brand new too, chips still on the paths, not as well defined yet.
I disagree that there are no lines here. I should have finished about 3 over today, and that was my first time through. (maybe the pars are generous or I was lucky).
Will go back with some regular playing friends and try to take some notes hole by hole. I do miss the rhythm of in and out of the woods that the other local courses mentioned offer.