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Stillwater, OK

Lake McMurtry - South

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3.575(based on 7 reviews)
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Experience: 14.9 years 33 played 8 reviews
3.50 star(s)

Lots of potential, still needs some work 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Aug 19, 2013 Played the course:once

Pros:

Very good signage.
Two different teeboxes every hole with different colored concrete to let you know which is which.
Lots of variation and broad array of challenges will test pretty much every shot in your bag. It has many shorter, wooded, technical holes, but the last part of the course really lets you open up. I'm also a huge fan of courses that actually create par 4 holes, rather than simply rating everything a par 3 even if its 600+ feet.

Cons:

My main complaint with this course, and why I'm giving it a 3.5 instead of a 4+, is that it has so much untapped potential. Far too many times I walked up to the teebox and scratched my head trying to figure out what the course designer intended the proper route to be. There were so many instances where trees and foliage would be so dense that there would be no proper line for the hole. You would just have to throw and hope you made it through. With some judicious cutting down of a few select trees, proper lines could be established taking this from a good course to a great course. As it is, because so many holes are "poke and hope" and the rough here is so dense, we spent more time looking for our discs than actually throwing. This frustration was enough that we skipped playing the north course and went to play Boomer Lake, instead.

Other Thoughts:

I do hope the course designers pay attention to feedback here. I don't advocate making the course unnecessarily easy. However, even some of the players I know who typically play in MPO feel that this course has far too many poke and hope holes. If attention is paid to making sure a valid and throwable line exists on every hole, even if it's tight and technical, it would go a long way to making this a must-visit course in the state.
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