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Henagar Log Cabin DGC reviews
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wellsbranch250
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Experience:
10.3 years
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Cabin Fever
Reviewed:
Played on:Mar 29, 2023
Played the course:once
Pros:
(2.322 Rating) A moderately wooded sports complex course with a surprising mix of hole types.
- FUN FACTOR - The gameplay here is perfect for a small town course. Most holes are between 300 and 200 feet long. Some of the long tees will push the distance over the 350-foot mark at times and there are some sub 200-foot ace runs. Skilled regulars are going to rack up birdies and the disc risk will be low, unless the creek's water level is up. I think nearly everyone is going to enjoy running the log cabin tee shot to the Pyramid on (14).
- AMENITIES - The basics were done right. Great 5-foot by 12-foot concrete pads. Good baskets as well. Veterans with a white powder-coat finish. They looked great and caught well. The signage wasn't installed yet, but I saw the finished product. They look great and were installed 2 days before this review posting. There are also shelters with picnic tables and restroom facilities. Hopefully some benches in the park will get commandeered and show up behind a few tees.
- NAVIGATION - A course map is either installed or its installation is imminent. I haven't seen the finished product, but if it looks anything like the high detail on the tee signs, it will help a ton to get around. There are a few weird transitions here. The route to (17) tee, crosses (3s) fairway. There's a modest flow gap after (8), and (6s) tee location is not intuitive. A couple extra navigation cues would help in the tricky spots.
- QUICK PLAY - A quicker than normal 18 hole course. Mostly short transitions and searching for an errant disc will be rare. My group of 4 finished in under 2 hours.
- FUN FACTOR - The gameplay here is perfect for a small town course. Most holes are between 300 and 200 feet long. Some of the long tees will push the distance over the 350-foot mark at times and there are some sub 200-foot ace runs. Skilled regulars are going to rack up birdies and the disc risk will be low, unless the creek's water level is up. I think nearly everyone is going to enjoy running the log cabin tee shot to the Pyramid on (14).
- AMENITIES - The basics were done right. Great 5-foot by 12-foot concrete pads. Good baskets as well. Veterans with a white powder-coat finish. They looked great and caught well. The signage wasn't installed yet, but I saw the finished product. They look great and were installed 2 days before this review posting. There are also shelters with picnic tables and restroom facilities. Hopefully some benches in the park will get commandeered and show up behind a few tees.
- NAVIGATION - A course map is either installed or its installation is imminent. I haven't seen the finished product, but if it looks anything like the high detail on the tee signs, it will help a ton to get around. There are a few weird transitions here. The route to (17) tee, crosses (3s) fairway. There's a modest flow gap after (8), and (6s) tee location is not intuitive. A couple extra navigation cues would help in the tricky spots.
- QUICK PLAY - A quicker than normal 18 hole course. Mostly short transitions and searching for an errant disc will be rare. My group of 4 finished in under 2 hours.
Cons:
Site quirks and limitations
- HOLE VARIETY - A designer can only do so much when given about 20 acres, and half of its already used. Parts of the course had to be shoehorned in a bit to get to 18 holes. I did like the mix of tree coverages. There are a couple open shots, several lightly wooded shots and a few moderately wooded plays. Nothing in heavy woods or wooded tunnel shots. No multi-play holes and elevation is mild in the 20-foot max range. There are a couple fun water plays using a creek, but no ponds to gameplay around. I scored this aspect about 40 percentile.
- SPACING - Several holes don't have ideal buffers. Established park amenities come into play a few times. Walking paths are in play on occasion. Reviewers that heavily penalize courses with multi-use hazard are likely going to score this course a notch lower than I have. I took off only a tenth of a point for it. I didn't think it was that terrible. I've seen worse conflicts across America dozens of times.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - I went with 30 percentile. Lots of manmade features in view the whole time. Behind basket (2) is a city dumping grounds for concrete pavement and tree debris. I doubt the park is blessed with a big city budget like the courses in the Nashville and Atlanta Metros. I did like the many log cabins sprinkled throughout the layout. The mini creek dicing through a few holes adds a little appeal as well.
- HOLE VARIETY - A designer can only do so much when given about 20 acres, and half of its already used. Parts of the course had to be shoehorned in a bit to get to 18 holes. I did like the mix of tree coverages. There are a couple open shots, several lightly wooded shots and a few moderately wooded plays. Nothing in heavy woods or wooded tunnel shots. No multi-play holes and elevation is mild in the 20-foot max range. There are a couple fun water plays using a creek, but no ponds to gameplay around. I scored this aspect about 40 percentile.
- SPACING - Several holes don't have ideal buffers. Established park amenities come into play a few times. Walking paths are in play on occasion. Reviewers that heavily penalize courses with multi-use hazard are likely going to score this course a notch lower than I have. I took off only a tenth of a point for it. I didn't think it was that terrible. I've seen worse conflicts across America dozens of times.
- NATURAL BEAUTY - I went with 30 percentile. Lots of manmade features in view the whole time. Behind basket (2) is a city dumping grounds for concrete pavement and tree debris. I doubt the park is blessed with a big city budget like the courses in the Nashville and Atlanta Metros. I did like the many log cabins sprinkled throughout the layout. The mini creek dicing through a few holes adds a little appeal as well.
Other Thoughts:
I came out here with two friends of mine and also met and threw with the designer Jake Harris. It was an entertaining social round for all of us. It was surprising to me, to have this good of course, on this challenging of a site. Driving in I was thinking 2.0 tops on a ratings curve, but there were too many fun shots here to not come away smiling. If I lived in Henagar, I'd likely play here all the time. There aren't many courses out this was currently. The 4 closest are Agape, Lifepoint, Fyffe and Sand Mountain. Among those four and Log Cabin, I personally think this is the new best of that bunch. Reminds me of courses like Shannon Park in Rome Georgia, Heritage in Cullman Alabama and Don Davidson in South Central Tennessee. I gave all these noted courses a middle of the pack 2.5 rating as well.
- CHALLENGING - The difficulty here is perfect for MA3 level, with blend over appeal to MA2s and MA4s. As noted in my first pro, this an idea level set-up for 1-course small towns, as it appeases the widest segment of regular players. MA1s are not going to be challenged much here. I think they'd average 10 down out here.
- CHALLENGING - The difficulty here is perfect for MA3 level, with blend over appeal to MA2s and MA4s. As noted in my first pro, this an idea level set-up for 1-course small towns, as it appeases the widest segment of regular players. MA1s are not going to be challenged much here. I think they'd average 10 down out here.
