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Elberton, GA

McWilliams Park

2.675(based on 9 reviews)
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Bennybennybenny
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Experience: 13.2 years 306 played 288 reviews
1.00 star(s)

I'll Try To Not Get Mad 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Dec 15, 2020 Played the course:once

Pros:

-Believe me; I'm going to try. In life, all you can do though is your best. That being said, I might very well get mad while writing this review. I was wildly irritated with the design of this course but the rest of the reviewers seemed to like it okay. That being said, there was some thought into the design of this course and a few holes were okay. #4 was an okay dogleg left par four out of the woods with a fair gap. #14 could be a good hole if the basket was straight ahead on the mound instead of to the right side of it. #17 was the best hole being uphill perched on a little mound, didn't love it but it wasn't a bad hole. #18 wasn't a terrible finish either. Double dogleg par four with the basket being on a drop off.

-Most of the hole numbers are labeled correctly.

Cons:

-I think the ugly duckling comment in one of the previous reviews was spot on. I'll say that there is some fairway diversity but they typically look very weird by having trees in the optimal line to reach the pin. Well executed shots won't regularly be rewarded here.

-Simple thought comes to my mind. The more you paint over something, more paint will be chipped off. I don't have a clue on whose idea it is to repaint the baskets, or who is involved in repainting the baskets, or who is smoking what or feeling lost somewhere over the rainbow but the baskets are different colors and they look terrible with chipped off paint. I also don't know who's eating the leftover paint chips but if anyone is, they are not for eating. Neither are tide pods.

-#9 and #10 are both in the category of some of the worst holes that I've ever played. There are safety hazards that I'll get to more, but these two are notorious bad. #9 has you teeing off with the playground in your sight. The hole favors a slightly left fade and the playground is just a notch to the right side and less than 100' from the tee box. Meaning if you throw right to left, chances are that your disc will fly over or dangerously close to the playground. Stupid! Oh yeah, the basket is close to the busy road too! WTF?! #10 has you throwing over the median that separates the park entrance and exit right off the tee. No reason why the pad can't be pushed maybe 100' closer to the pin so that you won't have the roads to avoid.

-More safety concerns such as being too close to the busy road, or too close to ballfields, or even both.

-A few elevated baskets with no meaning to them at all. I mean, one or two of them only for the sake of height isn't a bad idea, or if a unique engineering approach (such as #18 at Camp Canaan) is present, but several elevated baskets with no unique placement (such as on a boulder, staircase, or edge of a large hill) just makes the game frustrating.

-More about the weird lines, you'll see it immediately. #1 looks fun when you first see the pad. You know! Downhill into the woods, except there is no real gap. There's no real line to get to the basket. All you see are trees and a cotton candy colored basket with pink duct tape around it. #5 is a weird left to right fade in the woods very close to the ball field. #15 has some bad trees at it's left turn. I could go on. Believe me, there are more.

-Atmosphere. Not very pleasing. Because again, it's next to a lot of fields, the road, and some of the wooded holes look very trashy. #16 had a valid line playing nearly as a dogleg left but it's in a more eroded spot along a rill the entire way. This hole, along with a few others on the back nine felt like playing on the back side property of a one star motel or on the wooded property of a sketchy apartment complex.

-Some baskets are not labeled correctly. #10's basket has the #8 on it and some of the baskets on the back nine are not labeled correctly either.

Other Thoughts:

-Not the place for disc golf. Lake Russell is in the same town and is a whole lot better than McWilliams. This course to me is downright garbage. The best holes on the course are no better than okay and most of the holes here I did not enjoy at all. Some people will probably think it's an okay course but to me, it just sucked. None of the holes were considerably "fun". A few of them have a good thought process but they aren't holes you'll feel the urge to come back and play again.

-You probably have nothing to look forward to if you play here. I don't recommend at all. I do realize that my 1 rating seems very extreme and unfair but this course had many of the same problems that Ellis Park in Salisbury, NC. Ellis has a few well designed holes and I gave Ellis a 1 because of its flawed design and safety concerns. A couple of holes at Ellis cross each other. While none of the holes at McWilliams cross each other, Nothing here at McWilliams is particularly that good and the constant tee shots next to fields got old very quickly.

-Sorry, but I despise this course. I thought it was awful. Every hole either left a bitter taste or a bland taste.
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