Conroe, TX

Little Egypt DGC

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blake833
Gold level trusted reviewer
Experience: 14 years 160 played 140 reviews
3.00 star(s)

not so little 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Mar 11, 2022 Played the course:once

Pros:

This technical course offers some great holes in the woods, with clearly defined fairways, and (in the winter) a not too punishing off-fairway rough (though the spring-summer season would be a different story). It's nice hike with some decent up and down hill shots, never a feeling of being cramped by hole length or proximity to other fairways (you are close but the rough is thick enough to really keep you from going onto the wrong hole), and the overall design is that very old-school, lengthy par 3 for a lot of the holes.

The tees are nice concrete, great size, with informative tee signs. I think the sign might have been missing on a hole or two, but overall they're pretty straightforward.

The locals are pretty friendly, even some non-disc golfers i ran into who were just having a little lunch on one of the tee benches.

I honestly don't remember the baskets, which means they were probably ok. Nothing brand new and shiny but not crushed by trees and falling over either.

Navigation is pretty easy. I pulled out the map once or twice because the woods are kinda thick to where you can't always see the next tee, but it was no problem and I never felt lost

Cons:

The cons aren't HUGE, but they were just big enough for me to mention.

The most frustrating one is on more than a couple holes- having a "must miss" tree in the middle of the fairway. I feel like this is just based on luck to some degree, when if you go inside or outside you're missing the best line to the basket. Or the tree is too far down the fairway to conceivably try to miss. It can just be a disheartening to pure the fairway, to get squared up by a 10" tree. On the other hand, getting lucky and skipping around it makes you feel good, but that's usually just lucky.

I'm not a fan of the dog legs that go 90 degrees, or greater, where you don't just need to throw the disc around a corner, but actually try and get it to come backwards. Especially on holes 250' total. There were a few of them on the back 9.

Overall I would say the back 9 seemed shorter (with the exception of one of the longest holes on the course), and a lot of them were these almost gimmicky bending fairways. If it was one or two I wouldn't say anything, but I feel like 3 or 4 of the back 9 was a "go straight, then go this way way off to the side hole." If I played this course regularly, and got to know the holes better, I probably wouldn't care that much. And it probably seems like I care more than I do, but I just don't have that much to complain about here.

Other Thoughts:

This course is a great course at being "Good." It does a lot of things well, and the things it does poorly it doesn't do them bad enough to make you not want to play. It's a quick stop off I-45, and well worth it if you have the time.
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3dogmike
Experience: 94 played 1 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Clean technical course, but... 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Updated: Played on:Dec 5, 2018 Played the course:once

Pros:

Cleanest course I have ever played!
Excellent signage (except getting to first tee pad)
Quality concrete tee pads
Quality baskets
Some really good technical holes, even with a little elevation change.
Lots of opportunity for shaping shots

Cons:

Getting to the first tee pad from the paved parking lot for the park can be a challenge.
Some holes need more clearing to really provide an opportunity to shape a shot.
Too repetitive. Some great technical holes, but 18 of them? Overkill.
Didn't use my drivers much. Mostly control drivers and midranges.

Other Thoughts:

If you're on the north side of the Houston/Woodlands area, there are several other courses I would place over this.
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hawk12
Silver level trusted reviewer
Experience: 33.7 years 272 played 28 reviews
3.00 star(s)

Nice wooded course in TX 2+ years drive by

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 30, 2018 Played the course:2-4 times

Pros:

Very large concrete trapezoid tee boxes on each hole, most well well maintained and clear of sand.
Good tee signage on each hole, with next tee direction on each sign.
Fairways were fairly well designed with decent shaped lines on most holes (more below).
Well used and obvious paths to the next hole after each basket, was very easy to find my way around without needing the map once I looked at it in the parking area and on here once I found hole 1.
Decent work was done to give fair lanes and shot shaping, its obvious the desingers know a little something and are not noobs 'giving it a go'.

Cons:

There was a few repetitive themes I felt that really bring it down for me.
1- holes 1-6 are the same 2 holes 3x over to start the round. Same up/down & distance.
2- It really felt like I mostly threw the same 2 shots the entire round (save 3 holes). Either I threw a 300-310 ft turnover (LHBH), or a 225ft turnover (LHBH). As a lefty this place was turnover city for me & the only 3 holes I got to throw a clean hyzer were a 230 footer and a 200 footer, then hole 18 was my only driver hyzer at 315ish.... Even the dual lanes which were quite nice to see, did not have the flight path that a lefty would take - I choose to throw the turnover down the righty lane almost every single dual fairway as that had a much better lane/flight path. Maybe this is a maintenance issue, as I did notice one of the designed lefty lanes was completely overgrown and not really a fairway anymore. Even the one par four, was two righty hyer shots at 240ft to pin it. Again, the same repetitive throws as many of the par 3s....
3- Some of the concrete tees could have been placed/installed in a slightly different location (a few feet left or right, or even aiming slightly different angle down the fairway) to allow a cleaner or more even chance to utilize both fairways lanes. Again, this may be an installation issue vs. a design issue as just a foot left or right on a box can make a huge difference in a wooded course.

So the repetitive nature of throwing annys, and the repetitive nature of throwing a turnover mid OR a turnover putter over and over was a shame. It really felt like every hole was either 215 ft or 310ft.... I threw the same 2 tee shots both rounds I played yesterday, over and over and over.
36 tee shots yesterday, 6 left hyzers (4 of those were with a putter), 20ish anny mids, and 10 anny putters. I was hoping for more from an over 3.5 rated course.

Other Thoughts:

This is my 35th course in TX, and I feel quite strongly that most courses in TX are rated about a half a mark higher than the should be on a national scale. Could be the state is so big that many golfers don't get out of state too often. BUt 10% of the total number of courses I've played are in TX and this is a common feel for me.

This was indeed a solid TX course, better than most for sure. Solid bones, good design, just too repetitive for me liking. Maybe its a maintenance issue, maybe it just needed some ever so slight changes (1-2 more tree on the left lanes removed for a better lefty shot shape. I just kept throwing the 'safer cleaner lane' as I didn't want to go in the woods, and it was so often a turnover I felt a bit let down at the end of my 2 rounds.
Again, this is not a total knock, its good course, its just not a 3.5+ course in my eyes.
Reviewer background: I travel for work, a lot, and play the very high end courses, as wellas those 1.0 courses just because they are close to where I am working or staying on a trip.
I have seen the very best and the very worzt courses in my travels.
Played as righty for 15 years, got injured, and as a lefty for the last 13 years - so I am one of the guys that really sees both sides of the disc after 28 years of playing.
940ish rated player that has played 302 courses in 29 states, so I've been around to a few to see what's out there as well.

Overall, I'd recommend a player to come here, and recommend a traveling player to stop by as it was some good golf and better than many in the area.
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