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Gates County Community Center reviews
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If you end up here ... you might as well play it. 2+ years
Reviewed:
Played on:Nov 3, 2020
Played the course:once
Pros:
There are baskets, kind of pinkish colored DGAs, not in the best shape.
Most holes had paved tee pads, because you are usually teeing from the walking path or sidewalks.
A couple of good holes, #2 and #5.
The course starts on one side of the Community Center, plays around the entire park, then finishes on the other side, so its a pretty short walk back to the parking lot to get out of there!
Most holes had paved tee pads, because you are usually teeing from the walking path or sidewalks.
A couple of good holes, #2 and #5.
The course starts on one side of the Community Center, plays around the entire park, then finishes on the other side, so its a pretty short walk back to the parking lot to get out of there!
Cons:
No tee signs, the only tee markers were spray painted on whatever concrete is available. Several were difficult to find.
6 of the 9 holes play along or across the park walking path or sidewalks. #8 and #9 both throw from or over a main sidewalk back to other facilities. If this multi-use park is busy, its going to be a very slow round.
In addition to the conflicts with the walking path and sidewalks, the first hole plays over the horseshoe pits, #6 uses the football practice field for most of the fairway and #9 basket is just a few feet from the skate park. These all add up to a lot of safety issues.
6 of the 9 holes play along or across the park walking path or sidewalks. #8 and #9 both throw from or over a main sidewalk back to other facilities. If this multi-use park is busy, its going to be a very slow round.
In addition to the conflicts with the walking path and sidewalks, the first hole plays over the horseshoe pits, #6 uses the football practice field for most of the fairway and #9 basket is just a few feet from the skate park. These all add up to a lot of safety issues.
Other Thoughts:
The only course within 14 miles, so its nice to have one in this DG desert. But they really crammed this course into a small space, with lots of conflicts. Not sure if there is any other land available, but that probably would be heavily wooded and a mess to clear.
There were a couple of good holes here:
#2 - tee from the walking path and throw into a grassy area between two ballfields. The basket is between a group of trees, so nicely guarded.
#5 - tee from the walking path, just behind the main ballfield. The fairway is along side the walking path, but you must clear the hand rails in front of the tee, but keep it below a tree branch creating a low ceiling. Downhill to the basket that is on a raised mound. I overshot the basket and had a difficult downhill stance, back up to the basket, probably one of my better long putts for the birdie!!
It was good to play this course on a weekday morning, so I was the only one here. If anyone tried to play in the evening, or on a weekend, you're going to be here much longer than you need to be for this course. It is located right on Hwy 158, so if you aren't heading to Merchants Millpond State Park, not much other reason to be here.
There were a couple of good holes here:
#2 - tee from the walking path and throw into a grassy area between two ballfields. The basket is between a group of trees, so nicely guarded.
#5 - tee from the walking path, just behind the main ballfield. The fairway is along side the walking path, but you must clear the hand rails in front of the tee, but keep it below a tree branch creating a low ceiling. Downhill to the basket that is on a raised mound. I overshot the basket and had a difficult downhill stance, back up to the basket, probably one of my better long putts for the birdie!!
It was good to play this course on a weekday morning, so I was the only one here. If anyone tried to play in the evening, or on a weekend, you're going to be here much longer than you need to be for this course. It is located right on Hwy 158, so if you aren't heading to Merchants Millpond State Park, not much other reason to be here.
