Jamestown, ND

Jamestown Reservoir DGC

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Horsman
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 17.7 years 222 played 100 reviews
4.00 star(s)

Best course I've played so far in ND 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jun 12, 2016 Played the course:once

Pros:

- Easy to get to
- Bathroom right on the first hole
- Nice long concrete teepads and Innova Discather baskets
- A lot of very nice scenic views from a lot of parts of the course.
- Hole one starts next to the parking lot and 27 finishes at the parking lot
-Good variety of short and long holes making you use almost every disc in your bag.
- A lot of holes where the risk reward factor is in play.
- The flow from hole to hole was pretty seamless except for a few places.
- Pin placements were all pretty spot on. A lot of tough greens making your drives and up shots pretty key to success.
- Every hole out here I was able to execute with a backhand. Not because there were a lot of righty hyzers but because a good majority of the holes were very fair and played to every shot type.

Cons:

- Ticks. I pulled 6 of them off of me during my round
- Finding some of the holes took some time. Next hole markers would have been very nice for this course.
- I couldnt find the tee for hole 3 so I just skipped it.
- A lot of the long holes out there were blind from the tee. Not too much of an issue but playing it for the first it was a bit annoying to have to walk all the way up to the hole just to get eyes on it.
- Finding hole 5, 13, and 21 took me a while and definitely need signs pointing you in the right direction.
- There were a few holes out there were it seemed like the fairways needed to be trimmed because there was not a fairway.
- Tee signs for the most part were fine except on the blig holes. They just pretty much just give you a distance and they are not the most helpful but they do work.

Other Thoughts:

- I suggest skipping holes 2 and 3 and just going straight from 1 to 4. Hole 2 looks like it was under water for a while and the basket is brown and the area around it is very overgrown and just not a well laid out hole for the 180' it is. And I just couldnt find hole 3's tee so I skipped it. Convienently tee 2 and 4 are next to each other so it makes it easy.
- I would 100% suggest making your way to this course if you are in the area. It has been the only course in the Dakotas so far that I would suggest people go play and the only course that I would gladly go back to again and play.
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HiFi
Experience: 28 played 7 reviews
4.00 star(s)

So much potential 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 31, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

Variety, variety, variety, from long bombers to short technical holes, over water, uphill, downhill, open holes, holes crowded by trees and brush.

Cons:

Extremely overgrown to the point that it adversely affects your experience.

Other Thoughts:

This is a truly challenging course that starts out fairly easy going and progresses to extremely difficult. The tree lines and elevation are used well, and also the water is used well always leaving the player a safe option of some sort. This course has anything you could ask for in terms of hole design and landscape. If a fairly serious player comes to this course and does not have a good time the actual design will not be the culprit...

Which leads me to why this course gets a 4 and not a higher score. The easier part of the course early on is soon forgotten as you travel deeper in. There are zero garbage cans on the course, once you take off you will come no where near your vehicle until the very last holes, and the course gets overgrown to the point where finding your disc and throwing from your lie become drudgery. A major portion of the last half of the course has holes with a single 4 foot wide path mowed into them, leaving the rest of the fairway with grass 2-3 feet high. Shrubs and branches are reaching into the fairways to the point where it looks like there hasn't been any true upkeep to these areas of the course for several years.

Potential for an amazing championship level course is sitting right here in ND, yet the lack of any real level of greenskeeping leaves the latter half of this course as a brutal march.

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