A great mix of holes with several that play close to the lake. Theres two sets of tees here. Lots of elevation for sure. Wear some shoes with great traction and don't forget your water. Great signage to help you get around the course easily. You can play holes #1 through #11 and end up in the parking lot. Hole #12 is straight across from the parking area. The course got beaten up pretty bad last summer from the storms. There was a lot of fallen trees all over the course.Since then the course had been cleaned up and is in awesome shape it appears. Worth the park fee to come and play.

The rough is not a place you wanna be. Some of the fairways are tight and unforgiving. If you can keep it in the fairways you'll shoot well. if you get in the rough here the strokes will add up quickly.

There are camping areas nearby if your interested in staying. Lots of work went into getting this course back in playing condition. Park personal,the local disc golf club,and numerous volunteers worked many hours at Ft. Hamby. Everyone should come out and enjoy this wonderful wooded course.

Very wooded, very hilly, very fun. This is an absolute sparkling gem of a park and the course complements it very well. One of the few courses where I spend as much time admiring the great outdoors as I do playing disc golf.

Blues and White tees with layouts differing frequently as opposed to the "one short, one long" that you usually see. I played mostly from the Blues but snuck in a couple of Whites for funsies and neither layout looked to have more than a couple of blah holes on them. The course is more on the technical side but the fairway widths were very fair and appropriate for the lengths.

The best pro is the attention to detail in regards to preventing erosion and preserving all these hills. No stupidly placed tees and transitions to them where bothersome water fall lines will be created that I could see. Despite the constant elevation change, the course is relatively merciful on your legs and there's probably a combo of Blues and Whites that doesn't require much hiking at all.

Lots of valley shots but they're all used differently enough to feel unique instead of the usual "throw over the ravine" repeatedly at a course like a Richmond Hill. I really enjoyed the tee signs, navigation wasn't too difficult if you have a sharp eye for goat paths and the course is laid out well with the loops.

I'm not a big fan of these rubber hexagon tees b/c they never seem level and this course was no exception.

#5 White is the only hole that reeks of "filler hole."

I didn't have much trouble getting around wearing basketball shoes but if it's wet I imagine I'd probably bust my butt a couple of times.

Trash. There aren't any trashcans that I could see and unfortunately some disc golfers are too lazy to pack it out.

There are holly trees everywhere and man are they annoying/painful to come into contact with.

I don't want to say that Rolling Pines is better but it's definitely more "extreme" than Ft. Hamby. Hamby is kind of the Hornet's Nest to RP's Renny. Bigger potential for deadly rollaways, longer, more extreme doglegs, more bomber holes etc at Pines. Hamby might be more fun though if you prefer technical, wooded courses and it's easier on the legs I think which increases repeat rounds.

Hamby is absolutely the kind of course I would introduce people to the game with. It would kick their butts mercilessly but the surrounding nature and the hike around the course is so beautiful that they would "get it." It's what really differentiates disc golf from other games.

Ft. Hamby is a new nature trail disc golf course located on the north side of W. Kerr Scott Reservoir which combines disc golf,exercise and environmental education. The kiosk,scorecards,tee signs,tee pads,baskets and directional signs are all top notch. I especially appreciated the next tee signage color-coded for the white and blue tees.
The differences in distance and hole shape between white and blue were significant ( well-thought out triangulations) as opposed to just having short and long versions. The job of separating white from blue is unquestionably the best that I've seen in over 100 courses. The course was a blast for our entire group which ranged from advanced to novice.
The land is heavily-forested with occaisonal views of the inviting green water of the reservoir. The hills are small but steep; and provide a perfect undulating landscape for disc golf without beating you up. Trail-building appeared to be installed by a skid steer on the steep sloped areas and are going to be sustainable moving forward since it is a clay soil type. Obviously a mammoth undertaking done right.
The layout, which to me is the most important part of the equation, is nothing short of a masterpiece...not a filler hole on the course.
There is a campground on site within walking distance of the course and two other outstanding dg courses nearby, Highland Hills and Rolling Pines. In addition there are 30+miles of the best mountain biking in the south-east located on the south side of Kerr Scott as well as Merlefest in April.

The only con is that some folks may have an issue with pay to play, but not for me. I loved having the course to myself.

I'm not sure why this course has been rated so low, other than it is not in Charlotte.This is among my favorite public courses in NC !

Two tees with a Discatcher basket or two on every hole. Two practice baskets, nice tee signs and navigation and little underbrush to lose a disc in. The tees and baskets provide some totally different looks and difficulty on the same hole so the variety is superb on the same hole as well as from hole to hole in regards to the line shapes and distances required. Overall the course is heavily wooded with lots of elevation changes(extreme in some cases), so it's a very technical course that will test your accuracy and mental game, as the course is fair with pure lines, so luck is fairly minimal.

Two loops of holes back to the parking lot. The front loop of 11 holes is the easier to traverse, which is nice since players can choose to skip the more difficult hike and play of the back 7 holes. I almost skipped them because it was raining, but really happy I played them because they were some phenomenal holes. There are bathrooms in the park, although not by the disc golf parking lot.

The chicken wire(?) tees are too grippy, several times my pivot foot caught on an edge. And it was raining, so Ft. Hamby suffers from the opposite problem as Rolling Pines with it's slippery pads. Just plain gravel tees would be better, maybe filling in more gravel would help, or topping the chicken wire stuff with astroturf or concrete would be awesome.

Erosion control will need to be addressed, some of the extreme terrain requires switchback trails which are naked mud as the moment. Some straw has been put down to help, but it was still a little hairy traversing some steep, narrow, muddy trails.

Plays across a busy park road a twice, but not a big deal.

I'm really glad I played Ft. Hamby. It was a last minute flyer on my trip and just a tiny blip on my radar, but it can hold it's own amongst the list of all-star courses I played. The duo of Rolling Pines and Ft. Hamby is pretty killer as they compliment each other very well like yin and yang. They both have about of the same elevation which is a lot, they are basically mountain courses. While Rolling Pines is more of a open bomber course with it's sparse or rowed pines, Ft. Hamby is a very tight technical course in a fortress of hardwood trees. If you throw an errant shot at Rolling Pines you can make recovery shot fairly easy. If you throw an errant shot at Ft. Hamby you will likely be facing a pitch out back to the fairway. If you could mix these two courses together you would have a near perfect course. At any rate, go play this course, it's only $1 to play an awesome course!

The course has potential to be a 4.2-4.5. It is very well set up as far as tee signs and directions between tees. It is a beautiful course with very challenging holes.
I only played the blue (long) tees, but I could see that the whites might be a better fit for a casual round with friends.
I'm going to put this comment under both pros and cons:
From the blues, it can be considered 'lefty/RHFH' friendly. I'm primarily RHBH so I like to play courses that challenge me to do something different.

These are a little nitpicky:
The course had only been in the ground for less than 2 weeks from my understanding at the time I played it. There is a medium amount of small undergrowth that will fix itself after a year or two of consistent play. Nothing crazy, it is in a forest and in general the rough patches are rough because you had a bad shot, not because they need cleaned out more.
A few of the shot lines from the blues are a little too tight but in general they force shots without silly mandos or artificial obstacles.
It is lefty/RHFH friendly, but not impossible for RHBH.

The teepads are neither pros nor cons, I just thought I'd mention them here. They work for the course, they are well boxed in and are a very fine and well packed in dirt/clay/sand mixture with a rubber chickenwire type cover. That description doesn't do it justice honestly but I've not really came across any like them. They have good traction but are not concrete nor 'natural.'
With some time and a few hundred rounds through this course, it can easily be one of the better courses in NC. It is a mountain/foothill course and has some steep inclines to traverse, but if you know your geography, you know where you are and what you should expect in this area.
Read the tee signs. A lot of thought went into them to help educate the public.