A very challenging, hilly tract of forest.

-Amenities: Concrete tees. DISCatchers, which are absolutely necessary for a course this wooded. Tee signs have number, par, and distance.

-Seclusion: Feels like a private course, other than the occasional car driving past on the two-lane rural highway.

-Elevation: Substantial elevation change comes into play frequently, a good complement to the thick woods.

-Challenge: If you're dissatisfied with the difficulty of most wooded courses, come here. It's a beast--whether in a good way or a bad way will depend on your skill level. Though mostly par 3's, Dog River requires substantial distance at times and the whole course is covered in very thick forest. I checked, and in 2019 tournament play an even par round netted a 981, which would rank it a touch harder than the gold course at WR Jackson in the 2017 Worlds, where even par was a 976.

-Shot Shaping/Gameplay: Good, even pretty great for an almost entirely par-3 course with only one type of terrain (thick woods). There is a good mix of straighter shots, pockets, gentle curves, and sharp turns. Definitely a lot of risk/reward with all the trees. The elevation will also challenge your touch, and if you fail it'll be a tricky putt. A dream course for advanced technical players.

A tad bit rough, and make sure you know what you're getting into.

-Signage: A woods course with diverse lines + signs with no maps = huge annoyance. I think this is a course that you'll have to know well to score well.

-Difficulty: As noted above, by one metric this course is even harder than the hardest at the International Disc Golf Center. As a rec player, I got obliterated. I wouldn't recommend coming here unless you like woods courses, and probably only if you're an advanced player (or really like accumulating strokes).

-Disc Loss: Bring the bright colors. Some shots are blind and there are spots of rough that are thick, if not painful.

-Forgiveness: I don't think Dog River understands what this means. It's scramble practice heaven, because any mistake will put you in a desperate spot.

-Suspect Holes: I won't bother to enumerate which ones (check wellsbranch's review if you care), but a handful of these holes are borderline unbelievable. I think they're all birdie-able with a good putt; however, I think even pros would be playing only for a long putt (not the pin) on some.

-Benches: I don't recall seeing any benches, which is a crucial omission with the steep hills here.

People's feelings about Dog River will vary widely. Technical advanced players could easily give it a 4.5, while bomber-type intermediates might easily give it a 0.5. I've stuck with Good, because the lines are generally plausible for an advanced player and the elevation adds excitement, but there are some wonk-a-doodle holes and the target market is really small. I'd suggest that if you dislike trees and/or you aren't a highly proficient player, you should stay away.

Dog river is a newer course that played around the grounds of the Dog River Library. It's a very tightly wooded course with tunnel shots, a lot of interesting elevation changes and a good amount of death putts.

The design is a thoughtful one that requires a good amount of turnover shots, hyzerflips and tunnel hitting skip hyzers.

Mainly features 4x6 concrete pads that are nice and well poured.

Baskets are Innova disccatchers with the gold band which is perfect for wooded golf.

Lots of benches, good parking area and a bathroom by hole 11.

It's super RHBH heavy. I'm a FH dominate player with a decent Bh and this course felt like playing with shackles on. I could rarely use any of my pure strengths, but it did stretch me on hyzerflips and BH tunnel shots.

The signs leave a bit to be desired, they are attractive, but only have hole number, par and distance. With most of the baskets being blind it hurt me quite a bit not knowing where to aim on about half the holes.

Some of the lines from the long tees make a birdie shot unrealistic for many holes. About 5 dogleg so hard, I just threw my putter to the opening and then did a second drive. A valid design choice, but not one I am a fan of.

It's a multi Dimensional course, but probably just two main elements; elevation and trees.

It's a pretty good course, but not one that I'll go this far out of my way to play again. If you like tight wooded golf where you can never rip a driver, you might like this. I prefer a variety like Boundary Waters where you can hit some of these lines, but get to air it out every now and again.

(3.161 Rating) A beautiful wooded course with a few questionable par 3s.
- RAW BEAUTY - Without question this is the best quality of the course. 18 straight holes crafted through a forest with some risers, some fallers and some twirly twirls. This course wore me out a bit, but I was still wearing a smile by the time I was standing on the last tee. My favorite tee shot lines were short tee (2) and (11), but if I were asked tomorrow, I might change my mind.
- CHALLENGING - Advanced level. This is one of those courses were a 900 rated local technical
Player could beat an out-of-town pro. The lines need to be played two or three times before a determination came be made if a disc can make a certain angle. A loss of focus or coming in here guns blazing will be very punishing. Smart game play is required. All stated, some of this difficulty is flawed due to impossible lines in relation to the par figure, see cons.
- CHAINS - The perfect choice for a woods course - DISCatchers.
- NAVIGATION - Adequate. A course map is posted between the parking area and tee (1). Oddly it's mounted sideways. Somewhat intuitive paths between holes and a few navigational cues.
- CHARACTER - In addition to the nice baskets and navigation, this wooded course comes with a lot of tee shading and benches scattered throughout. Adequately sized concrete tees and 3 extra ones so far. I would not be surprised to hear that more tees get added because there's room. I saw one extra unmarked basket placement on (11) which adds about 80 feet.
- UNIQUENESS - I enjoyed the amount of thought I had to do at the tee just prior to throwing into a tree. For those that enjoy shaping shots with needle line precision, they will likely enjoy this one. Elevation change I think hits the 50-foot mark on a couple holes. Shots break both ways and there are a couple 'S' lines as well. There's a neat big 90-degree dogleg on (18) long and some terrifying gullies to avoid. The biggest omission is the grip and rip shot.
- TIME PLAY - About average. I finished solo in 50 minutes, but I surprisingly did very little searching. Figure around 2 hours for a foursome.
- FLYBOY - 10 minutes from Flyboy Aviation.

Discs will say hello to the trees early and often.
- UNREALISTIC LINES - Far too many borderline ridiculous lines. (16) is the worst. A par 3 tunneling 350-foot with a 90 degree turn. The second leg is as long as the first leg. The only discs that I know that can travel this arc are the ones that don't leave the bag. Long tee (2) is laughable, and its why I moved onto the short tees right away. I bet that tee rarely gets used. Tee (5) looks is impossible without 450-foot power and some luck. (6) and (7) are similar big hooks requiring a local route to get within 50 feet.
- TEE SIGNS - Sub-par being just a hole number and distance. Wooded courses with blind basket locations need a description of the angle at the tee. On the last five or six holes I saw some masking tape on the tee signs with a sharpie description of the line. Thank you to whomever did this.
- RAW - As with most newer courses cut through woods, this course will need some time to beat in. The thicket is bad in spots and I got scraped up good by brier a couple times. I stumbled into roots and small rocks occasionally too. Probably some poison ivy, snakes and ticks in the woods as well, although I didn't observe any because it was mid fall.
- ROAD - Extremely minor, but Georgia State Road 5 could come into play with a horrible ricochet throwing from tee (4).
- BEGINNER FRIENDLY - Not for Beginners or Novice level players.
- TERRAIN - Not for those with joint pain. The course is somewhat cart friendly.
- NO BOMBERS - Players that prefer to bomb shots probably won't like this course.

This course is going to have a wide range of opinions. Later in the day, I mentioned that I played here to some players while over at nearby Flyboy Aviation, and one of them cursed this course out. This is an extremely technical course, and players that don't like this style, won't like this one either. For me, the good outweighed the bad, although I did drop the rating from a 3.5 to 3.0 due to the numerous somewhat unachievable lines.