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Lake Amador - Campground

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The Valkyrie Kid
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Experience: 46 years 1562 played 1507 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Lake Amador-Campground Course Will Eat Your Discs! 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jan 21, 2019 Played the course:once

Pros:

The Lake Amador Resort Complex centers around a 400 acre lake offering fishing, boating, camping, swimming pools and three challenging disc golf courses. The cost is $10 per day. If you can finish all three in a day, then you can call yourself a man or a woman. The cafe is full service on weekends and sandwiches during the week. There is is a nice selection of both new and used discs and bags for sale in the cafe. I found the prices to be steep.

The campground course has carpet tee pads, benches, and simple tee signs which are stuck in plastic cans.

The Campground Course is very similar to the South Course only with fewer steep hillsides but two holes that are nastier than any the South Course can muster up. # 5 is long enough and the basket is perched on a narrow strip of land with this large, nasty marsh in front, the kind you don't retrieve your disc from and a ditch so deep there is a ladder to get down and another to climb up the other side.

And then there is lucky number 13. From the long it plays 480' and from the short, 345'. The basket is way down there sitting just a few feet from the lake. Luckily, the area just below the lake is currently dry allowing more margin for error.

Cons:

This course is only playable during the campground's off season. Because it plays through many campsites, the course would mostly unplayable between about March and September. Even when I played it in January, I had to skip a hole or two due to people in the way.

The amenities here are on the primitive side with the signs being simple ones and stuck in the plastic buckets.

I never like holes which play down paths or roads and there are a few here.

Navigation is a little tricky the first time through.

Seasonal course.

Lots of places where your discs could disappear.

Not beginner friendly. Possibly not recreational level friendly.

Other Thoughts:

The course is definitely intermediate level challenging and probably intermediate level physically challenging, as well. Playing two of the three
courses in one day is a hand full. All three would be quite an endurance feat. Personally, I didn't care for the Campground course as much as the South Course. It had this feeling of being an afterthought and just squeezed in. It's probably a work in progress as I assume that improvements will be made.
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Disc Fisher
Experience: 12.1 years 24 played 6 reviews
4.50 star(s)

I love Lake Amador 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Feb 11, 2017 Played the course:5+ times

Pros:

Elevation changes, mix of open and technical holes, well placed OB, multiple water hazards, great signage. Cart friendly / bring your own ride on electric or gas golf cart that's fun!

Cons:

All baskets Jan-March a mix of 10 baskets and 7 tones Mar-Dec. Back 9 gets tough to play with weekend campers Mar-Sept but early week is usually ok.

Other Thoughts:

Completes the Lake Amador Trilogy of awesome disc golf as the middle child, this is the advanced level course with Amador South being intermediate and North being Pro. DONT HOP THE DOUBLE FENCE FROM HOLES 3-5 CALL THE PHONE # LISTED ON THE OB SIGNS!!
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