Haut Gap DGC has a mix of both wooded and open shots, offering both tight and technical and wide open, with a few minor transitions between these two states of woodedness. The lines are varied, although there is a premium on straight, and there are some challenging windows to hit. Some of the more severe lines will even have you consider laying up, a rarity at such short distances. A few solid pin placements add to the challenge. The concrete tees are excellent, almost hilariously long, wide, and level given such short holes. Navigation is easy.

Haut Gap's mix of wooded and open sits at two extremes, with the open holes being exceedingly so and the wooded holes being quite tight, often courting luck or entering into "not a golf shot" territory. Some of the lines in the woods are very unrealistic. The combination makes it hard to tell who this course is meant for: the open shots and very short distances suggest beginners, but at least half these holes are very beginner unfriendly, owing to rough, extreme lines, and tight windows. As it stands, the course seems to suffer from this bipolarness.

Compounding the unfriendliness is the nearly omnipresent fence, which borders many holes and creates a lot of risk of losing a disc. There are breaks in the fence that allow one to retrieve a disc (as I thankfully discovered at one point), but I'm not sure that's always the case. Either way, the fence really hems the course in and lends an artificial sense to its environment.

In all, it's a constrained environment that lends the course an ace run feel, but that feel is countered by the drastic and occasionally absurd lines and tight windows on many holes.

Haut Gap DGC made for a fun and casual round testing my accuracy throwing putters off the tee, but it's not a course that I would play with any regularity. The predominance of NAGS and the short distances makes for a weird mix. Worth spending 20-30 minutes to bag a course and test your putters' accuracy, but that's it.